Pharmacist, Murtaza Abdulkarim (L) administers a temporary Strazeneca / Ox XF ford covid-19 vaccine to a patient at a temporary vaccination center on February 4 at the Al-Abbas Islamic Center in Birmingham, West Midlands. , 2021. Oli scarf | AFP | Getty Images LONDON – The first real-world data from …
Read More »EU leaders want to speed up the rollout after a slow start
A man wearing a face mask on Thursday, February 25, 2021 in Dublin, Ireland. Nourphoto | Nourphoto | Getty Images LONDON – The European Union needs to step up its efforts to vaccinate people against coronavirus, 27 presidents said on Thursday, as the region continues to struggle with a coalition …
Read More »Standard Chartered CEO: Stock markets will ‘look fruity’
LONDON – Standard Chartered’s chief executive on Thursday warned that the stock market’s valuation had reached an inadvisable level during a period he described as “speculative hype”, saying it was possible for tech-led sell-offs to enter others. Fields. Bill Charters, CEO of Standard Chartered, told CNBC, “There are indications that …
Read More »Australia Australia passes a news media law that requires Google to pay Facebook
A search for ‘Australia Australia News’ on Google’s homepage set up on a desktop computer in Sydney, Australia on Friday 22 January 2021. David Gray | Bloomberg by Getty Images Australia Australia has passed a new law requiring local media outlets and publishers to pay for linking their content to …
Read More »Square saw 1 million users buy bitcoin for the first time in January: CFO
CFO Amrita Ahuja told CNBC on Wednesday that Square’s cash app platform saw a surge in first-time bitcoin buyers last month. “In 2020 we had 30 million people transacting in Bitcoin through the Cash app and 1 million new ones in Bitcoin in January. [2021]”A day after his company made …
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