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Stocks pointed sharply lower Monday as new data showed a jump in COVID-19 cases in both the U.S. and Europe. Restrictions tightened across major countries overseas, raising the specter of a further pullback in business operations and deeper anchor on global economic activity. Shares of companies set to benefit from a broader economic reopening including airlines like American Airlines (AAL), cruise lines including Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) and hotels like Wynn Resorts (WYNN) sank…. Source link

Workers at the Wildberries distribution center in Podolsk, Russia.  Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Covid-19 has driven a projected 10 million more Russian consumers online,… Source link

Workers at the Wildberries distribution center in Podolsk, Russia.  Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Covid-19 has driven a projected 10 million more Russian consumers online,… Source link

Yandex and Sberbank’s fight to gain control of Russia’s finance and technology industries is being billed as the corporate showdown of the decade. “Sberbank versus Yandex: The battle of the super platforms has begun,” declared Russian business daily Vedomosti last week. Novaya Gazeta went further, dubbing it a “war of the ecosystems.” The clash — which has been brewing in the background for years — took center stage last week when… Source link

There are two new entrants —two telecom companies—in the Indian market trying to upend video-conferencing. After the initial euphoria around video-conferencing apps, more particularly Zoom, died down, many new players started experimenting with new features. Zoom hasn’t changed much since, but it has reinvented its security, Microsoft Teams has introduced virtual backgrounds and Google Meet has been experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reduce ambient noise. There are two… Source link