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Russians offered Sputnik V vaccines to foreign diplomatsFebruary 23, 2021 at 4:47 AM This is an automated machine translation of an article published by Business Insider in a different language. Machine translations can generate errors or inaccuracies; we will continue the work to improve these translations. You can find the original version here.The Russian Foreign Ministry has offered foreign embassies in Moscow to vaccinate their staff with the Russian vaccine against Covid-19. Diplomats from post-Soviet countries, Asia, Africa, and Latin America have accepted the offer; EU c...Tags: Russia, Trends, Eu, Moscow, Kremlin, Latin America, Foreign Ministry, U S Embassy, Asia Africa, European Medicines Agency, CIS, John Sullivan, Dmitry Peskov, BI International, International Licensed Content, Jeevan Ravindran 4 people like this. Like Spotify Expands To 80 New Markets, Targeting 1 Billion CustomersFebruary 22, 2021 at 5:05 PM  Tags: Google, Asia, Spotify, Africa, Tech, Netflix, West, Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean, Stockholm, Asia Africa, India Nigeria South Korea 111 people like this. Like Spotify climbs 6% as company announces expansion to 80 new markets, target of 1 billion customersFebruary 22, 2021 at 3:20 PM Tags: Spotify, Barack Obama, Trends, Markets, Bloomberg, Netflix, Middle East, Music Streaming, Trading, Stock Market, Caribbean, Asia Africa, Billie Eilish, Streaming Apps, Spotify Technology, Spotify Stock 128 people like this. Like The best affordable Airbnbs in BostonFebruary 4, 2021 at 2:22 PM Tags: UK, Boston, Massachusetts, US, Trends, Mit, Green, Italy, Cambridge, South America, Keurig, Airbnb, Paul Revere, New England, Mbta, Boston Common 61 people like this. Like Climate change is hurting children's diets, global study findsJanuary 14, 2021 at 12:00 AM A first-of-its-kind, international study of 107,000 children finds that higher temperatures are an equal or even greater contributor to child malnutrition than the traditional culprits of poverty, inadequate sanitation, and poor education.The 19-nation study is the largest investigation to date of the relationship between our changing climate and children's diet diversity. Of the six regions examined--in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America--five had significant reductions in diet diversi...Tags: Science, Asia Africa, Central and South America 21 people like this. Like Trump says he wants to bring troops home, but he's really setting the stage for much more violent warDecember 9, 2020 at 2:51 PM Tags: Europe, Politics, New York, Isis, Vladimir Putin, Obama, Navy, California, Opinion, Washington, White House, China, Germany, Virginia, Iraq, Russia 82 people like this. Like The use of wild mammals in traditional medicineDecember 9, 2020 at 12:00 AM In an analysis of published research, investigators identified 565 mammalian species that have been used to source products used in traditional medicine around the world, especially in Asia, Africa, and Latin AmericaTags: Science, Asia Africa 14 people like this. Like Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving techOctober 27, 2020 at 3:46 AM In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The goal is to alleviate food insecurity among farmers, who comprise one of the most susceptible populations to issues of malnutrition, according to Apeel’s chief executive James Rogers.
“The majori...Tags: Travel, TC, Marketplace, Singapore, Articles, Uganda, United States, Katy Perry, Ifc, Agriculture, Kenya, Denmark, Food Waste, Vietnam, Oprah, Latin America 17 people like this. Like Ambassadors from 50 nations sign letter supporting LGBTQ rights in PolandSeptember 30, 2020 at 3:23 PM  Tags: Europe, Germany, Eu, European Union, Joe Biden, United States, Innovation, United Nations, Poland, South America, Nazi, North America, Council of Europe, NGO, Embassy, Andrzej Duda 74 people like this. Like Skytrax is rating global airports based on how they're handling the coronavirus pandemic – here's the full rankingSeptember 27, 2020 at 8:57 AM Tags: Transportation, Asia, Europe, New York, London, Airports, Air Travel, Trends, Spain, Star, Rome, Flying, Italy, Middle East, Aviation, South America 58 people like this. Like The impact of COVID-19 on access to Parkinson's disease medicationSeptember 21, 2020 at 12:00 AM A global survey of health professionals has shown that during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with Parkinson's disease in large parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin and South America experienced difficulty in accessing their medication, which is likely to have led to deterioration of symptom control.Tags: Science, South America, Parkinson, Asia Africa 17 people like this. Like The tale of 2 challenger bank modelsAugust 6, 2020 at 3:15 PM Tilman Ehrbeck
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Ameya Upda...Tags: Column, Europe, London, Washington, Mexico, Finance, India, Nigeria, Africa, Tech, Banking, Aspiration, Brazil, Fintech, Latin America, Revolut 5 people like this. Like Tech leaders have long predicted a 'splinternet' future where the web is divided between the US and China. Trump might make it a reality.August 6, 2020 at 1:17 PM  Tags: Apple, Google, Europe, Washington, North Korea, China, Russia, US, America, Trends, Beijing, Silicon Valley, Pentagon, Npr, State Department, Donald Trump 80 people like this. Like All things SAAS : This report by Nasscom sums it allAugust 4, 2020 at 3:18 AM Some Global Stats
– Globally, 12000 SaaS companies
– Global revenue is at $100bn
– Top 5 companies own 51% of that
(MSFT, Oracle, Adobe, SalesForce & SAP)
– Growing at 23% CAGR
– Americas at 60%, EMEA 30%
Some more
Vertical Market breakup:
BFSI 15-20%,
Retail 10-15%,
Health 10-15%,
Education 10%,
Others 30-40%
Horizontal market breakup:
CRM 25%,
ERP 23%,
Content/communication/collaboration 22%,
BI 9%
HCM 8%
SCM 4%
Projections for 2025 –
– $400 bn addressable global market b...Tags: Business, India, Global, Tech, Healthcare, Cac, Cagr, Chennai, EMEA, Asia Africa, ARR, SCM, NASSCOM, BFSI, Thethreadmill, BFSI Credit 49 people like this. Like ‘Social media sites need to stop outsourcing online content moderation,’ says an NYU reportJune 12, 2020 at 3:19 AM A report on content moderation by New York University recommends that content moderation, which is central to the work of all social media platforms, must no longer be outsourced but be included within the main fold of the platforms. In terms of numbers, 15,000 workers, majority of those employed by third-party vendors, moderate Facebook and Instagram; 10,000 moderators moderate YouTube and other Google products; Twitter has 1,500 moderators. As per the report, published by Professor Paul M. Bar...Tags: Travel, Google, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter, News, Instagram, India, BJP, Narendra Modi, Social Media, Kenya, Myanmar, Rohingya, Silicon Valley, Ucla 41 people like this. Like Police Reform: For a U.S. in Crisis, Hard Lessons From Other CountriesJune 11, 2020 at 5:00 AM Those who want to remake a police model that has set off unrest and despair would do well to look at the experiences of Asia, Africa and Europe.Tags: News, Police, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Myanmar, Police Brutality, Sri Lanka, Minorities, Black Lives Matter Movement, Asia Africa, United States Politics and Government, Misconduct and Shootings, George Floyd Protests (2020 49 people like this. Like Turkey’s President Erdogan Says Borders Are Open as Refugees Gather to Enter GreeceFebruary 29, 2020 at 10:12 AM ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that his country’s borders with Europe were open, as thousands of refugees gathered at the frontier with Greece.
Migrants played a cat-and-mouse game with Greek border patrols throughout the night and into Saturday, with some cutting holes in the fence only to be turned back by tear gas and stun grenades. Greek authorities also fired tear gas to repulse attempts by the crowd to push through the border.
The move by Turkey ...Tags: Europe, News, Greece, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Russia, Uncategorized, Eu, European Union, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Nato, Middle East, Athens, Bulgaria 44 people like this. Like How Our Modern World Creates Outbreaks Like CoronavirusFebruary 7, 2020 at 7:00 AM “Everyone knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,” observes Albert Camus in his novel The Plague. “Yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet plagues and wars always take people by surprise.”
Camus was imagining a fictional outbreak of plague in 1948 in Oran, a port city in northwest Algeria. But at a time when the world is reeling from a very real microbial emergen...Tags: Health, Hong Kong, Europe, Japan, News, China, Berlin, India, Africa, Uncategorized, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Ideas, Atlantic, Guinea, West Africa 13 people like this. Like Best eco-friendly wellness retreatsJanuary 9, 2020 at 12:30 PM  Tags: Travel, Bali, New York City, US, Los Angeles, Baja, Kiva, Maldives, Costa Rica, St Lucia, All, Osa peninsula, Asia Africa, Cedric, Hedda, Israel India 117 people like this. Like Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal?December 29, 2019 at 12:45 PM Tags: Washington, China, India, Tech, Cnn, Beijing, Middle East, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Kashmir, NGO, Asia Africa, Freedom House, People s Daily, Democratic Republic of Congo Chad 139 people like this. Like Urban sanitation crisis impedes health, economic growth in 'global south'December 18, 2019 at 7:33 PM Cities in the "global south" - densely populated urban areas that are part of low-income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America - should phase out pit latrines, septic tanks and other on-site methods of human waste management.Tags: Health, Latin America, Asia Africa 32 people like this. Like Police hunt for brothers from Northern Ireland over truck deathsOctober 29, 2019 at 10:00 AM  Tags: London, News, Middle East, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Asia Africa 113 people like this. Like ‘Jungle Cruise’ Trailer: Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt Search for the Tree of LifeOctober 11, 2019 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Amazon, Movies, Dwayne-Johnson, Fantasy, Disney, South America, Movie Trailers, Johnson, Emily-Blunt, Caribbean, Walt Disney, Jack Whitehall, Asia Africa, Blunt, Disney Parks, Jungle Cruise 96 people like this. Like Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838-2019)May 30, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Europe, Photography, New York, London, College, America, San Francisco, History, Paris, Middle East, Sydney, Montreal, Seoul, British Empire 110 people like this. Like IF YOU SAY SOMay 28, 2019 at 10:38 AM The popular suggestion that Australia is home to the world’s deadliest snakes is largely a myth, with the risk of bites and death far greater across Asia, Africa and South America, the nation’s science agency has said.
(Thanks to Ralph)Tags: Australia, South America, Asia Africa 2 people like this. Like Continent drift and plateau uplift drive evolutions of Asia-Africa-Australia monsoon and arid regionsMay 28, 2019 at 3:08 AM Monsoon and arid regions in the Asia-Africa-Australia realm occupy more than 60% of the total area of these continents. What are their origins, evolutions, causes and regional differences? A new study indicates that the monsoon and arid regions in Asia, Africa and Australia were formed in different geological periods of the Cenozoic, mainly controlled by continental drift and uplift of the Tibetan Plateau to varying degrees depending on their locations.Tags: Australia, Tibetan Plateau, Asia Africa, Asia Africa Australia 31 people like this. Like Snake mistake: CSIRO says it's a myth that Australia is home to world's deadliest speciesMay 25, 2019 at 10:12 PM Australian science agency says there are a ‘negligible number of human deaths’ from snake bites in AustraliaThe popular suggestion that Australia is the home of the world’s deadliest snakes is largely a myth with the risk of bites and death far greater across Asia, Africa and South America, the CSIRO says.Herpetologist Ruchira Somaweera said the myth was born a few decades ago and came out of a study of the relatively high toxicity levels found in Australian species, such as brown snakes. Contin...Tags: Australia, Animals, Environment, Australia news, Wildlife, Snakes, South America, Reptiles, Asia Africa, CSIRO, Herpetologist Ruchira Somaweera 16 people like this. Like Actis announces new senior appointmentsMay 2, 2019 at 11:24 AM Actis has named Maureen E. O’Toole as a managing director. In her new role, O’Toole will lead the investor development group in the Americas. Previously, she was a managing director at Morgan Stanley in the investment management division. O’Toole is taking over from Adiba Ighodaro, who will be assuming the new role of head of strategic relationships and a senior adviser.
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New York, NY, May 2, 2019 – Actis today announced that Maureen E. O’Toole has joined the firm as a Managing Dire...Tags: New York, Nigeria, US, Trends, People, United Nations, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Latin America, UNEP, New York Ny, Executive Committee, Asia Africa, Toole, Maureen, IDG 41 people like this. Like Where Trump’s and Bibi’s Interests ClashApril 12, 2019 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Europe, Isis, Guns, Senate, China, Iraq, Russia, Israel, Jerusalem, America, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Gop, United States 69 people like this. Like The Great Survivor: How Benjamin Netanyahu clung on to power in Israel againApril 10, 2019 at 3:32 AM  Tags: UK, News, Vladimir Putin, Washington, Israel, US, Jerusalem, Iran, Syria, Ap, Gaza, West Bank, Moscow, Brazil, Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu 116 people like this. Like |
