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Time How COVID-19 Is Revolutionizing Health Care Around the World In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on and is likely to last well into 2022 and beyond. For ten weeks in a row, from the first week of February, 2021, new daily cases globally rose, driven in part by virus variants and by many countries ending public health measures too soon. Nations like Brazil, Canada, India, Iran, and Turkey—as well as some U.S. states like Michigan and Minnesota—recently experienced… Source link

Bloomberg China’s Yuan Becomes Latest Victim of Treasury-Led Selloff (Bloomberg) — The Chinese yuan erased all its gains against the dollar this year, the latest to fall prey to the Treasury-led global market selloff.The onshore yuan weakened as much as 0.5%, falling past the 6.5283 per dollar level it closed at last year. At its January peak, it was up 1.6% from 2020 as the economy rebounded and investors poured money into the Chinese bond market.Optimism over a global recovery from the… Source link

Photo by Christian Ender/Getty Images) Getty Images Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1—Google Workspace is adding new features to help remote workers.    Google recently added some new features to Google Workspace in order to help those working remotely collaborate and improve their workflows. Some of the new features include making a Workspace available for… Source link

Bloomberg Lucid Motors Agrees to Go Public With $24 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg) — Lucid Motors Inc. is merging with a blank-check company run by financier Michael Klein that values the combined entity at a pro-forma equity value of $24 billion, the biggest in a series of deals involving electric-vehicle startups cashing in on investor appetite for battery-powered cars.The carmaker has shied away from comparisons to market leader Tesla Inc., but the public listing positions it to compete for… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Letters spell the word “Alphabet” as they are seen on a computer screen with a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Paris, France, August 11, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google is teaming up with the European Investment Fund (EIF) and two other organisations in Latin America and Asia to provide $75 million in funding to small- and medium-sized companies suffering from the impact of COVID-19. The funds are part of an $800 million initiative… Source link

“Everything that I have heard from parties, both in the news media business and in terms of digital platforms, is that these are generous deals,” Frydenberg said. “These are fair deals. These are good deals. These are good deals for the Australian media businesses,” he added. Google and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the code as unworkable. Google says it might make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the code is… Source link

“Everything that I have heard from parties, both in the news media business and in terms of digital platforms, is that these are generous deals,” Frydenberg said. “These are fair deals. These are good deals. These are good deals for the Australian media businesses,” he added. Google and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the code as unworkable. Google says it might make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the code is… Source link

“Everything that I have heard from parties, both in the news media business and in terms of digital platforms, is that these are generous deals,” Frydenberg said. “These are fair deals. These are good deals. These are good deals for the Australian media businesses,” he added. Google and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the code as unworkable. Google says it might make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the code is… Source link

Indiana Pacers wing Caris LeVert, a pivotal component of the blockbuster James Harden trade, is out indefinitely after an MRI revealed a small mass on his left kidney during his pre-trade physical, his new team announced Saturday. LeVert is still awaiting further medical tests, per the Pacers. Part of the haul that the Brooklyn Nets sent in return for Harden, the 26-year-old LeVert was routed from Houston to Indiana in exchange for Pacers star Victor Oladipo. He hadn’t yet made his debut… Source link

Alphabet Inc. workers launched a union this week with a few hundred members, about 2% of the Google parent company’s workforce, raising questions about what such a small union can do for a largely well-paid group that enjoys world-famous perks. Actually, quite a bit, labor experts say. The Alphabet Workers Union says it cares about working conditions, especially for the company’s temps, vendors and contractors, or TVCs, who don’t enjoy the same level of pay, benefits and… Source link