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Global Economy to regain speed on a Bumpy Road to recovery

The global economy has shown its remarkable resilience as it gradually progressed through the COVID-19 pandemic. Though prospects for a way out of th...

UK Moves Step Closer to First Nuclear Fusion Power plant

The UK government has started the hunt for a 100-hectare site for its upcoming nuclear fusion-based power plant. Called as Spherical Tokamak for Energ...

Top Players Across the Globe Riding Gaming Boom

The gaming market has been on a lively run in 2020. As the pandemic forced people to stay put at their homes, gaming emerged as an alternative to many...

Money doubled! Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) skyrockets on market debut

Airbnb Inc (NASDAQ: ABNB) has entered the capital markets with a bang as the shares of the San Francisco-headquartered online home-sharing platform ra...

What is GoFundMe and how does it work?

oney is required. Raising money for any occasion is possible on GoFundMe, an online platform where anyone can start a campaign to crowdsource mon...

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine receives a go-ahead sign from FDA Expert P...

In a significant recent development, the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine gets FDA officials panel's nod for the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)...

Airbnb IPO debuts with a bang, share price doubles

It was a smashing debut for the much-awaited Airbnb IPO. On the first day of its listing, the stock price got more than doubled. The overwhelming resp...

Disney nails another milestone as subscribers soar in number

Entertainment giant The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) is only one year old in the online streaming service business, but the company seems to have le...

India’s Ambanis top the list of the richest families in Asia

g US$76 billion, following with the Kwok, Chearavanont, Hartono, and Lee families. Bloomberg posted the list of the wealthiest families in Asia i...

Why did Kelly Loeffler evade a question during Georgia debate?

icials informed of the upcoming pandemic. The DOJ had dismissed those allegations. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler has come under spotlight aft...

In a first, Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news content

On 8 December 2020, Australia unveiled its plans to make Facebook and Google to pay to the local media outlets for the news content. Australia has bec...

DoorDash (NYSE:DASH) makes a smashing debut, shares soar ~86% on day...

On 09 December 2020, DoorDash made is NYSE debut on New York Stock Exchange, and by the end of the trading session, the shares surged by 85.89%, settl...

US Government Sues Facebook, Seeks its Breakup  

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Facebook on antitrust grounds. The investigation into the matter was conducted in coordination with the At...

China’s Consumer Prices lowest in more than a decade

China’s consumer prices went down for the first time in a decade, after pork prices fell courtesy recovery from the last year’s African sw...

OPEC+ agrees to crank up oil production from January

In a significant move, OPEC and non-OPEC allies have agreed to raise their oil production starting January, after a meeting on 3 December 2020. The de...

The controversial life of coal mining magnate Ivan Glasenberg

Ivan Glasenberg at International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016 (Image source: Shutterstock) Ivan Glasenberg, the Swiss-based billion...

Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine starts working within ten days of...

According to new documents released by the US regulator, Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, BNT162b2 shows response within almost ten days of the fir...

Tesla to Raise USD 5 Billion, Riding High on Share Price Boom

American electric vehicle and clean energy company, Tesla Inc., has unveiled its plan to raise USD 5 billion. As per a regulatory filing on Tuesday, t...

Deutsche Bank, ANZ, Citi face trials in Australia’s biggest criminal...

  The three major banks, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group Ltd, Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, and six of firms’ former staf...

In A First, Water Futures Start Trading On Wall Street

  Water has now entered the league of oil, gold, and other commodities futures on Wall Street, representing concerns that the life-sustaining na...