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U.S. Won’t Join Global Coronavirus Vaccine Effort Because It’s Led By The WHO

After initially praising both China and the WHO at the pandemic's outset, President Donald Trump sharply reversed course

03 сентября 2020 3 мин. 6170

Trump Defends Rittenhouse, Caravan After Biden Condemns Protest Violence

The Biden campaign released a statement calling Trump “too weak, too scared,” to “repudiate one of his supporters

02 сентября 2020 3 мин. 5909

PayPal Enters Installment Loan Business Targeting Fintechs Affirm And Afterpay

Point of sale financing—the modern layaway that lets you pay for a new TV or dress in four installments instead of putting it on your credit card—has been rising steeply in popularity over the past two years, and the pandemic is propelling it to new heights

01 сентября 2020 4 мин. 7789

Industrialization in Kazakhstan: first results and new challenges

Today, Kazakhstan has such large multinational companies as Kazchrom, KSP Steel, Alstom, General Electric, BASF, and others. Over the past five years, more than 500 new industrial projects with an investment volume of about 5 trillion tenge have been put into operation

29 августа 2020 7 мин. 12402

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer Exits As Company Faces Threat Of Ban In U.S.

Mayer had been at the receiving end of direct attacks from the Trump administration after joining TikTok

28 августа 2020 3 мин. 5870

The Anti-Facebook: 12 Years In, Facebook Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz’s Slow-Burn Second Act Asana Finally Has Its Moment

Nearly a decade ago, Zuck’s college roommate became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire by moving fast and breaking things. Now Moskovitz is set to take his radically chiller cloud standout Asana — a software success story powered by patience and the pandemic — public

27 августа 2020 8 мин. 8720

Trump Organization Sued By New York Attorney General As She Investigates Its Financial Dealings

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the Trump Organization—along with the president’s son Eric Trump—to force the company to comply as she investigates whether the company allegedly inflated its assets to secure loans and other deals

26 августа 2020 3 мин. 4810

A Healthy Improvement on GDP

LONDON – Dissatisfaction about GDP is growing. Many economists, policymakers, and other critics question the ability of this central measure of government and social success to recognize the welfare gains from technology, account for environmental degradation, or capture rising inequality. With developments in artificial intelligence and robotics poised to produce considerable labor-market churn while also boosting GDP – a process likely to be accelerated by the ongoing pandemic – these complaints will soon grow louder