Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook. Getty Images (L) | Reuters (R) In October 2018, Apple Paul CEO Tim Cook criticized the business practices of Big Tech competitors in an influential speech at a privacy conference in Brussels. “Every day, billions of dollars …
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President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus adviser Dr Atul Gawde told CNBC on Wednesday that he had taken part in a trial of the modern Covid-19 vaccine. “At 84, my mother said, ‘I want to give back.’ So he signed up for the hearing. I said if my mom could do that, …
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President Donald Trump indicated he would not be able to sign the long-delayed coronavirus relief package after U.S. government debt prices were low on Wednesday. Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note reached 0.921%, while yields on 30-year Treasury bonds were slightly higher at 1.655%. Bond yields turn to low …
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SINGAPORE – The world must remain vigilant for the next six months, when the coronavirus vaccine will be launched, as it will take time before most of the population is vaccinated, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist told CNBC. D We. “We are going to the beginning of the end, …
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including two men convicted as part of an investigation by Special Adviser Robert Mueller and four former Blackwater USA guards convicted of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. Others who have been pardoned include two former Republican congressmen who confessed …
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