At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the intensity of the presidential election and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2021 proved…
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© Reuters. Gold Edges Higher as Traders Weigh Record Covid-19 Infections (Bloomberg) — edged higher as investors assessed the resilience of the global economic recovery, with Covid-19 cases hitting a pandemic record. More than 1.44…
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Maciej Piechocki, Moritz Plenk and Aaron Janowski of BearingPoint examine the need for regulatory authorities to develop a clear strategy on how to become part of distributed ledger technology platforms, take advantage of the resulting enhanced data…
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At the start of the pandemic, consumers were bombarded with a new and hastily constructed form of advertising. In those “uncertain times”, customers were promised, they could rely on their favourite brands for help. The…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO-Fishing boats are moored down the coast from the Paraguana Refining Center (CRP) following a crude spill in September from a pipeline that connects production areas with the state-run PDVSA’s largest…
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When Jack Dorsey made the sudden public announcement that he had quit as CEO of Twitter, it was only ever going to have happened in one place – Twitter itself. It reminded me very much…
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After all the bad press tech companies have received, would anyone still be surprised to learn the outwardly smiling face of social media conceals a sophisticated data-collection industry? This year’s headlines delivered news of an…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Petroleum pump jacks are pictured in the Kern River oil field in Bakersfield, California November 9, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. oil fell on Monday after airlines…
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Jerome Powell: acknowledged the coronavirus poses evolving risks to economic activity The US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) have all signalled their readiness to counteract the impact of the…
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Olaf Scholz is soon to be sworn in as the new chancellor of Germany after nearly two months of intense negotiations between the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and liberal Free Democrats (FDP). It is a…
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