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Why is the Department of Justice filing an antitrust suit against Google?
October 21, 2020 10:09 PM AEDT| By Edita IvancevicAfter years of thorough investigations and one published research held by the House Judiciary Committee, an antitrust suit against Google (NYSE:GOOGL) has come through late at night local time on 19 October. The Department of Justice is currently .....

How is the Banking Sector dealing with Climate Change Related Systemic Risks?
October 21, 2020 08:02 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaBanks are under regulatory and economic pressure to safeguard themselves from the effects of climate change. In the months ahead, banking authorities around the world are now reinforcing new climate risk management guidelines and are preparing to i.....

General Motors Resurrects Hummer As a 350 Miles EV Avatar, Goes Head-on with Tesla’s Cybertruck
October 21, 2020 05:55 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaGeneral Motors is all set to hit the EV market once again with its recent launch of Hummer EV – a progeny of gas-guzzling military-style SUV that the Company acquired in 1998. General Motors would now bring-in a new prototype of the beast mod.....

NetApp eyes Cloud services, ONTAP Software updated
October 21, 2020 05:00 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary: NetApp, Inc has announced a further improvement in its cloud-connected NetApp® ONTAP® data management software. The Company also declared a better flexible NetApp Keystone™ Flex Subscription service along with a new NetApp...

How Will Failed International Tax Talks Impact Global Economy?
October 21, 2020 12:11 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyOECD, on 12 October 2020, stated that the global economy could witness a loss of 1% in total output if international tax talks do not take shape immediately. In June 2020, when the US pulled out of global digital tax talks, there were increased con.....

Investment firm Tattarang acquires RM Williams, bootmaker back under Australian ownership
October 21, 2020 12:11 AM AEDT| By Edita IvancevicA famous Australian shoemaker RM Williams is back in Australian hands once again. Tattarang owner Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, and his wife Nicola Forrest, bought RM Williams for A$190 million and announced it on Monday. The investment fi.....

NZX and SGX join hands to expand New Zealand’s Dairy Derivatives Market
October 21, 2020 12:00 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaRecently, New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) and Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) joined hands to give a boost to the trading business of New Zealand’s dairy derivatives market. The current agreement between the two bourses includes- listing of.....

Royal Caribbean International Cancels Sailings Onboard Odyssey of the Seas
October 20, 2020 08:29 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaTravel has been one of the hardest-hit industries in the wake of coronavirus crisis. With lockdown and travel restrictions implemented everywhere, the travel industry has experienced an unprecedented decline in demand all of a sudden. &nb.....

COVID Vaccine Update: Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca Vaccines Hit Roadblock, WHO Flags Remdesivir
October 20, 2020 03:14 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaNot only unprecedented, the COVID-19 crisis also seems like a never-ending malaise. While the medical world seems to have no answer to the problem, prominent pharma companies across the globe are racing against time to find the best possible vaccin.....

What is QAnon?
October 20, 2020 03:00 PM AEDT| By Edita Ivancevic2020 does not cease to surprise. With popular conspiracy theories such as 5G network causing the coronavirus or that Mr Bill Gates wants to chip the whole world, a new extreme far-right wing theory emerged a couple of months ago. Hardcore organiz.....

Online streaming booming amid pandemic, apple tv giving free services, Netflix increases fees
October 19, 2020 10:21 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaOne upside of the coronavirus pandemic is that online streaming has become a mainstay in Australian homes. The steep rise in the subscription services shows that Australians are spending more time at home than they did before COVID-19 struck us. Au.....

Carbon Dioxide Emissions off the cliff in 2020, Coronavirus the Climate Change hero!
October 19, 2020 10:05 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media‘Stay home, stay safe’ slogan has become part of our lives now. Little did anyone know that staying indoors would do something to the climate that was always desired but was never anticipated. An international team of climate spec.....

Elections amid the virus crisis - a glance at US and NZ elections
October 18, 2020 12:20 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyThe year has been unique in every sense, with people living 2011 release Contagion, a Virus crisis based Hollywood movie. The point is, the situations are not something that we ever heard from our grandparents' generation.  .....

Coronavirus Vaccine Race; Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) kickstarts rolling submission
October 18, 2020 12:10 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaPeople are on tenterhooks in their wait for a coronavirus vaccine as the world continues to struggle, with COVID-19 spread, and experts claiming that life can return to normal only when a vaccine is in the market. Drug companies, healthcare organi.....

Typhoon Nangka pulls the plug of Hong Kong Stock Exchange
October 17, 2020 05:21 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaNangka, in Malay language, means jackfruit. Four tropical cyclones have been named after the jackfruit in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The latest Nangka storm is one of the cyclones featuring in the 2020 Pacific typhoon season. The typhoon seaso.....

Twitter and Facebook Censor Article Critical of Joe Biden, Trump Furious
October 17, 2020 05:12 AM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyWith only a few weeks left in the presidential election, all eyes are on the United States as it gears up for 3 November 2020. A high-voltage drama is unfolding in the US with the election campaign process all heated up. Rivals Donald Trump.....

How is the Travel Sector shaping up in New Zealand, any New Year cheers?
October 16, 2020 02:18 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaTravel and tourism sector turned into the most observable victim of COVID-19 pandemic after New Zealand, along with the whole world, had imposed harsh lockdown restrictions and closed the borders to fight the coronavirus spread. The tourism .....

Will sand mining hit your celebrations? Coke fears so
October 16, 2020 02:07 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSand mining gives rise to environmental issues like flora and fauna damages as well as depletion of the groundwater supplies. It involves digging deep pits in the ground, which can cause surface effluents to mix with the groundwater making it unfit.....

End of an Era for Yahoo Groups; Curtain Down After 20 Years
October 15, 2020 08:35 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaFor most of the people who had access to computers in the 90s and early 2000s, Yahoo used to rule the world of internet. Even before Google and Gmail existed, people spent a lot of time using various Yahoo services. After shutting down its iconic .....
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Wall Street on a roller coaster ride, Is the Market Thinking Beyond Elections
October 15, 2020 01:53 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaThe US tech stocks have marked a strong beginning to the current week and look to add more to the gains from the previous week. 12 October 2020 witnessed the common stocks of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) jump by 6.35%. Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) ex.....

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