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Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been eyeing Joe Biden’s pick to run the US Securities and Exchange Commission for clues about how he might regulate the technology. In his confirmation hearing today, nominee Gary Gensler suggested that more...
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GameStop rocketed to notoriety this year after commentators on the Reddit forum r/wallstreetbets helped send the struggling video game store’s stock up almost tenfold in one week. The Reddit crowd was trying to combat enormous interest in G...
- Quartz Before 3 hour & 5 minute
Hello Quartz readers,Over the weekend, the US granted emergency-use authorization to Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, which requires just one shot and can be refrigerated normally. It’s the third vaccine to be approved in the US, which...
- Quartz Before 3 hour & 5 minute
On March 2, officials from US president Joe Biden’s administration confirmed that the president will be using the Defense Production Act to rope pharma giant Merck into making some of Johnson & Johnson’s newly authorized Covid-19 vaccine.A...
- Quartz Before 4 hour & 4 minute
A few years back, as Target thought about the future of its digital business, it saw a few possibilities for growing online sales, which it knew would only grow in importance.Target could have followed the conventional wisdom at the time, w...
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After the pandemic forced Disney to radically rethink how it releases movies, the company now says some of those changes will be permanent.Bob Chapek, Disney’s CEO, acknowledged that because of the Covid-19 pandemic, consumers are too “impa...
- Quartz Before 5 hour & 53 minute
For all the talk of Covid-19 vaccine supply issues in the European Union, official data show that close to 13 million doses distributed to member states have not even been administered. Most of those are from AstraZeneca, with many European...
- Quartz Before 8 hour & 51 minute
As the world warms, the countries that will suffer the biggest losses in industrial productivity are those that need productivity the most, a new paper suggests. These are countries that are already hot, and that are inevitably also among t...
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When Gary Gensler’s confirmation hearing takes place today, senators will scrutinize how president Biden’s pick to run the Securities and Exchange Commission would wrestle with the retail trading boom enabled by brokerages like Robinhood. I...
- Quartz Before 12 hour & 38 minute
Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowWHO investigators are attacking Chinese explanations for the origin of Sars-Cov-2. They told the Financial Times they don’t believe the virus entered Wuhan on contaminated frozen food...
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It has been 10 years since nation-wide protests in Tunisia led to the ousting of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his regime. Ben Ali led Tunisia for 23 years. Tunisia’s “Dignity Revolution” marked the first time a long-standi...
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A temporary telecom glitch at India’s largest stock exchange has rattled the country’s government and regulators.On Feb. 24, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was forced to abruptly halt trading for four hours due to failure in telecom conn...
- Quartz Before 15 hour & 36 minute
With an economy in slow recovery, and the burden of education loans higher than ever, US president Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure from Democrats to wipe out $50,000 in student debt per borrower, and to do so via executive action. B...
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India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive for a part of its general population came with teething issues on day 1.On March 1, the Indian government opened its vaccination drive to people over 60 years of age and those between 45 and 59 with co-mor...
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The white hatchback slowed down as it approached the toll plaza. At the wheels was a middle-aged Sikh man and in the passenger seat an old woman with flowing grey hair. Seated behind were three more women, one middle-aged and the other two...
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As Indians sit down to register their eligible family members for the Covid-19 vaccine, one question dominates the decision to take the shot: Should one wait for better, more efficacious vaccines?So far, India has only approved its homegrow...
- Quartz 2021/3/1
If you like movies but hate other people, theaters have created a solution that could last even after the pandemic: renting out your own auditorium. And it just might help their struggling businesses too.Tom & Jerry, a new film based on the...
- Quartz 2021/3/1
In the early days of Covid-19, people from Zimbabwe to Tanzania turned to home remedies for a disease about which little was known. But now, even as African countries begin rolling out vaccine programs, many could still stick with tradition...
- Quartz 2021/3/1
Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US House passed the stimulus bill. The Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion relief package now heads to the Senate, where it is likely to fail in its current form.Read the rest of...
- Quartz 2021/3/1
The alleged crime: democracy. The punishment: up to life imprisonment.Nearly 50 prominent Hong Kong democracy activists who were formally charged on Sunday with subversion under the national security law appeared in court today for their ar...
- Quartz 2021/3/1
Mukesh Ambani has yet again displayed his seriousness towards technology but experts believe it might be too soon to call his oil-to-telecom conglomerate “tech-first.”On Feb. 28, Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) said it had bought an addi...
- Quartz 2021/3/1
India has pushed the pedal on its Covid-19 vaccine drive.Beginning today (March 1), Indians above the age of 60, and those below 60 but with co-morbidities can register to receive the vaccine. The government had announced this move on Feb....
- Quartz 2021/3/1
While Bitcoin is scaling new heights and is embraced by heavyweights like Elon Musk, India’s central bank doesn’t seem to have faith in cryptocurrencies.In an interview with business news channel CNBC TV-18 last week (Feb. 24), Reserve Bank...
- Quartz 2021/3/1
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) is expected to issue a rule as soon as Monday that will make loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) more generous for business owners without employees.Companies and nonprofits without em...
- Quartz 2021/2/28
African entertainment startups had their best funding year on record last year, even as they struggle to find business models that work in the continent.The startups raised a total of $13.9 million in 2020, almost 19 times what the sector h...
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