OUR WORLD FACES MANY MORE CRISES THAN JUST THE CORONA CRISIS. HOWEVER, CORONA SEEMS TO FUNCTION AS “CATALYST” FOR MANY OF THOSE OTHER CRISES. SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN ONGOING FOR MANY YEARS BUT MAY NOT ALWAYS HAVE BEEN LABELLED AS SUCH: WE OBSERVE... Read more
China — An app that briefly gave Chinese internet users access to foreign websites such as YouTube and Facebook — services that have long been blocked — has now disappeared. The web browser called Tuber was backed by Qihoo 360, a Chinese cyberse... Read more
Summer has already passed into autumn, and if you feel like something’s amiss in your perception of how time flows, you’re not alone. No music on the Worcester Common, very few new murals, a general lack of dancing and street food. For many peop... Read more
One of the biggest retail real estate owners in the country, Brookfield Properties, is going through a major round of job cuts, as the coronavirus pandemic takes a toll on its business and new leasing activity at its malls dries up. “While many... Read more
British drugmaker AstraZeneca has begun testing an antibody-based cocktail for the prevention and treatment of Covid-19, adding to recent signs of progress on possible medical solutions to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The London-... Read more
Career changes can happen at any time for a number of different reasons. Sometimes, professionals reach a point when they decide they are no longer happy with their current career path and actively want to seek a change. Other times, the shift i... Read more
TikTok users in the U.S. and Hong Kong are deeply concerned after realizing that political matters may have jeopardized their future on the app. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Monday that he is “looking at” banning TikTok a... Read more
U.S. policymakers could “change the world” by devaluing the dollar, one analyst has claimed. Speaking to“Squawk Box Europe” on Monday, independent macro advisor Hugh Hendry said quantitative easing programs — where central banks buy assets like... Read more
The fiscal deficit for the first three months of 2020 has almost doubled compared with the same period of last year. Total deficit has jumped from LL1.3 trillion to LL2.4 trillion. When expressed in contemporaneous foreign currency exchange rate... Read more
Technology giant Amazon has banned the police from using its controversial facial recognition software for a year. It comes after civil rights advocates raised concerns about potential racial bias in surveillance technology. This week IBM also s... Read more
