(Adds Pfizer response; paragraphs 6-8) By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) – New Zealand reported its first recorded death linked to U.S. drugmaker Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said on Monday, after a woman suffered a rare side effect leading to inflammation of her heart muscle. The news of the death comes as the country battles an outbreak of the Delta variant after nearly six months of being virus free. It followed a review by an independent panel monitoring the… Source link
Read More »Palantir Reports 49% Revenue Growth; US Commercial Revenue Up 90% Y/Y
DENVER, August 12, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE:PLTR) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021. Q2 2021 Highlights Total revenue grew 49% year-over-year to $376 million US commercial revenue grew 90% year-over-year Closed 62 deals of $1 million or more, of which: 20 net new customers added in Q2 2021, total customers up 13% quarter-over-quarter Commercial customer count increased 32% quarter-over-quarter Cash flow from operations of $23… Source link
Read More »Netflix reports Q2 earnings today — Here’s what analysts expect
Netflix (NFLX) is set to announce its Q2 2021 earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday, with investors looking to see if the streaming giant can recover after missing analysts’ expectations by nearly 2 million subscribers in Q1. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting from the company as compiled by Bloomberg versus how it performed in the same quarter last year. Revenue: $7.32 billion expected versus $6.14 billion in Q2 2020 Earnings per share: $3.14 expected versus $1.59 in Q2… Source link
Read More »Google Reports 100-Fold Improved Quantum Error Suppression
Error mitigation is perhaps the biggest challenge and barrier to implementing practical quantum computing in the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) computers. Last week, Google reported promising use of so-called “stabilizer code” on its 54-qubit Sycamore quantum processor to suppress errors. The recent work, published in Nature Communications, reduced the number of errors requiring correction 100-fold per round, reported Google researchers. There’s a good account,… Source link
Read More »Recruiter.com Reports on Recruiter Index with CNBC and Yahoo Finance
HOUSTON, TX / ACCESSWIRE / July 6, 2021 / Recruiter.com Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:RCRT), an on-demand recruiting platform, discussed the results of its June 2021 Recruiter Index®, a monthly survey of Recruiter.com’s network of more than 28,500 independent recruiters and talent acquisition specialists, live on CNBC and Yahoo Finance. While the survey results suggest that recruiter confidence is high, they also indicate that talent shortages still plague many employers and industries. Overall… Source link
Read More »Alibaba’s Ma, Tsai Pledged Shares for Bank Loans, FT Reports
(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s largest individual shareholders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai pledged parts of their combined $35 billion stake in the e-commerce giant in exchange for significant loans from banks, the Financial Times reported, citing company documents. The share pledges were made by offshore companies controlling more than half of the duo’s stake in Alibaba, which stood at 5.8% as of December, according to the FT. The documents didn’t disclose the amount of the share… Source link
Read More »Google reports soaring attrition among Black women
The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo July 1 (Reuters) – Workers identifying as “Black+” or “Latinx+” left Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google at higher rates last year than in 2019, the company said on Thursday in its latest annual diversity report, highlighting a persistent challenge to growing representation. What Google calls an attrition index, with 100 as a baseline, registered at 121 last year for… Source link
Read More »Inspection reports for collapsed Miami-area condo detail ‘major structural damage’ over garage
Engineers noted design flaws and failing waterproofing that would lead to “exponential damage” about 990 days before much of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex collapsed, documents released late Friday night show. The town of Surfside, Florida, released the documents including an “unverified” 40-year inspection report that had been received 16 hours after the building’s catastrophic failure. A letter to the condominium association’s treasurer on Oct. 8, 2018, included pages of… Source link
Read More »1 dead, 8 injured in Miami condo collapse a block from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s home, reports say
A section of Champlain Towers South, a Miami Beach condominium just one block from where Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are leasing a home, crumbled in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Screengrab/Google Street View; Screengrab/Alex Hernandez via Twitter A person died with 8 more injured in a Florida building collapse early Thursday, local media said. A video posted on Twitter showed damage to Champlain Towers on 8777 Collins Avenue, Surfside. The building is one block from Ivanka Trump and… Source link
Read More »South Africa’s Naspers reports 24% rise in full-year profit
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African media and e-commerce group Naspers Ltd reported a 24% rise in profit for the year that ended March 31, boosted primarily by the performance of its investment in China’s Tencent Holdings, the company said on Monday. Africa’s biggest company by market capitalisation reported core headline earnings per share – the main gauge of corporate profit in South Africa – of 814 U.S. cents, up from 656 cents reported for the same period a year earlier. Its 28.9% stake… Source link
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