The past few days have seen a watershed in the world of retail. Online-only fashion company Boohoo is on a spending spree, buying cash-strapped “bricks and mortar” brands that were previously staples of the high…
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Shell-crushing predation was already in full swing half a billion years ago, as our new research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals. A hyena devouring an antelope carcass, a bonnethead shark…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun is seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County By John Kemp LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. petroleum inventories have continued to converge down…
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In the battle between the army of renegade Reddit retail traders and Wall Street’s hedge funds over unloved stocks like the Texan computer games retail chain GameStop, there has been a serious case of mistaken…
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The Australian government’s push to make Google pay news organisations for linking to their content has seen the search giant threaten to pull out of Australia. Google Australia’s managing director Mel Silva said if the…
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© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Crude oil prices settled lower Friday for the second straight week on fears the rocky ride for demand will continue as the threat of new Covid-19 variants prolonging…
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the policy measures to combat it, are having profound effects on the economic and social lives of citizens. They are threatening employment as well as the long-term livelihoods and well-being…
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On January 13 the Australian Financial Review reported Google had removed some Australian news content from its search results for some local users. Speaking to the Guardian, a Google spokesperson confirmed the company was “running…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An employee holds a sample of crude oil at the Irkutsk Oil Co-owned Yarakta field in the Irkutsk region By K. Sathya Narayanan and Bharat Gautam (Reuters) – Oil prices will…
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Editor’s note: GameStop stock resumed its dramatic ascent after a popular online broker said it would lift restrictions on trading its shares. In recent days, frenzied activity in the video game retailer’s stock led the…
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