© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. one hundred dollar notes are seen in this picture illustration taken in Seoul February 7, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/File Photo By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar began a week full of big economic data on a firm footing, with investors wary of the Federal Reserve beginning its exit from…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A shopper wearing a protective mask pushes a shopping cart at Japan’s supermarket group Aeon’s shopping mall as the mall reopens amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Chiba, Japan May 28, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s wholesale inflation hovered near a 13-year high in…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin (Photo by Alexandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images) Newsday via Getty Images Amazon will pay full college tuition for frontline workers, according to a company blog post. The giant online retailer said, “More than 750,000 operations employees in the U.S. are eligible for fully funded college tuition,…
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Last weekend, a reader wrote to this editor, politely asking why tech companies should speak up about the abortion law that Texas passed last week. “What does American Airlines have to do with abortion?” said the reader, suggesting that companies can’t possibly cater to both pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates and that asking them to take…
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On Thursday, September 9, 2021, After at least four years of investigations and trials, Dr. Hu Anming, a nanotechnology expert who was a professor at the University of Tennessee (UT), was acquitted by a federal judge, following a mistrial this year. Dr. Hu is the first to go to trial…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline The companies behind the Pfizer vaccine are nearly ready to seek approval for the jab’s use among children as young as five years old and should make that request within the next few weeks, the founders of vaccine maker BioNTech said in an interview published Friday. A student…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The United States Department of the Treasury is seen in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 30, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly 2/2 By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department met with a number of industry participants this week to quiz them about the risks and benefits posed by stablecoins –…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Friday said it would begin a virtual mission to Belarus, amid concerns raised about the global lender’s disbursement of new emergency reserves to the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. The staff mission is part of the IMF’s economic surveillance and monitoring mandate and aims to gather more…
Denis Kalinin Contributor Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. China is becoming a superpower in the tech industry. According to Straits Times, China is the only place in the world where it takes…





