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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.....

Coronavirus Update: Good News for International Students as New Zealand allows them on its soil
October 15, 2020 04:50 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaOn 16 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern imposed a mandatory self-isolation, on arrival to NZ, unless people were coming from mostly unaffected Pacific island countries. Some days subsequent to it, the country closed the borders of NZ entir.....

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) sheds its old Avatar to aggressively take on Streaming Giant Netflix
October 15, 2020 12:12 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaNations across the world are struggling to fight the coronavirus crisis in many ways. The virus has successfully wreaked havoc across industries, shutting down many companies. Travel and entertainment sector is perhaps the most affected one. Leadin.....

Trump was gung-ho on Eli Lilly Drug; Company hits pause button for COVID-19 antibody treatment
October 14, 2020 10:33 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaThe clinical trial of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company’s antibody COVID-19 treatment was paused because of some potential safety concerns. Eli Lilly announced trial halt just a day after Johnson & Johnson disclosed the pause o.....
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Apple unveils HomePod Mini and a range of iPhones; accessibility remains the key theme
October 14, 2020 10:00 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaApple finally unveiled its new range of 5G network-enabled iPhone 12 smartphones along with HomePod Mini speaker in its virtual presentation. When everyone thought Apple would launch a new iPhone, it came up with four and launched a wide range of o.....

Re-Commerce a new trend? AirRobe gets support from investors with Afterpay Pedigree
October 14, 2020 01:51 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaOne of the latest trends in the retail fashion world is re-commerce, also known by the term reverse commerce. The model comprises the sale of previously owned or used goods. Though re-selling has been around for a long time, recently it h.....

As New Zealand Election nears, should investors revisit their portfolio?
October 14, 2020 02:28 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyMost of the time, it has been witnessed that stock market behaves bullish post the elections on the back of new commitments and policies of the winning party. In 2016, post the surprise win of Trump, the stock market has been upbeat for a considera.....

Funding for Lending (FLP) a big boon for NZX Banks
October 14, 2020 02:22 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSeveral businesses have witnessed a disastrous fall in revenues as countries implement social distancing restrictions to control the spread of coronavirus. Governments and central banks are responding with massive stimulus programmes to prevent ban.....

Who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee?
October 14, 2020 02:09 AM AEDT| By Edita IvancevicAfter the tragic death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Judge nominated by the former US President Bill Clinton, Judge Amy Coney Barrett is set to take over Ms Ginsburg’s place in the highest court in the world. Ms Barrett’s f.....

How is EV battle going; Is Volkswagen catching up with Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)?
October 13, 2020 08:34 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaTo save itself from extinction and recover its damaged image from the Dieselgate scandal, Volkswagen (VW) perhaps has the only option but to come out stronger as a greener automaker and reinvent its brand position in the market. Notably, Volkswagen.....

Billionaire Trend On The Rise During COVID-19
October 13, 2020 03:37 PM AEDT| By Edita IvancevicMany people who had full-time and secured jobs before the pandemic have either lost them or experienced underemployment since the virus struck humanity in January earlier this year. At the same time, a report has highlighted that the richest humans.....

How is Facebook behaving during this US Elections?
October 13, 2020 12:10 AM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyThe social media world, like so many other spheres, features a stark divergence in its way of functioning before, during and after the elections. In the 2016 US election, Donald Trump’s surprising win forced researchers to reinterpret the nar.....

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