Twitter courts high-profile users with bitcoin tips and NFT verification
Sep 24, 2021 19:19 pm UTC| Digital Currency Economy Life
Twitter began allowing influencers to get tips in bitcoin and is working on a system to offer NFT verification as it steps up its wooing of the content creators essential to drawing online crowds. The platform has been...
EU to use non-Apple compatible USB-C connector as charging port for all devices
Sep 24, 2021 15:12 pm UTC| Technology Economy
The EU will prescribe using the USB-C connector as the standard charging port for mobile phones, tablets, and headphones, which is not compatible with Apple products. The iPhone is charged from a Lightning cable while...
Target plans to hire 100,000 seasonal workers for the holidays
Sep 24, 2021 10:00 am UTC| Business Economy
Target, one of the biggest retail firms in the United States, will be hiring more workers for this coming holiday season. The company said it is planning to hire 100,000 to fill seasonal job posts. Although the number...
Impossible Foods rolling out ‘meatless’ plant-based pork in US, Singapore and Hong Kong
Sep 24, 2021 06:53 am UTC| Business Economy
Impossible Foods is debuting its latest plant-based meat product in the U.S. and two Asian countries. It announced this week that it would begin rolling out its meatless pork starting this month. Aside from the United...
Celltrion wins $626M COVID-19 test kit contract from the US government
Sep 24, 2021 06:24 am UTC| Business Economy
Celltrion revealed on Thursday, Sept. 23, that it would be supplying its rapid COVID-19 test kit called DiaTrust to the US government. This happened after the nations Department of Defense awarded the contract to...
Some rich people will love at least one sweetener in Democrats' $3.5 trillion plan
Sep 24, 2021 02:53 am UTC| Economy Politics
While liberal lawmakers look for ways to raise taxes on the rich to finance their US$3.5 trillion spending package, some House Democrats are aiming to lower them. Specifically, several Democrats from high-tax states...
Merkel's caution has made Germany the great economic underachiever of our times
Sep 24, 2021 02:53 am UTC| Economy
Germans are taking to the polls on September 26 to elect the members for the 20th Bundestag. For the first time in 16 years, there will be a new chancellor as Angela Merkel steps down. Germany has been through some...
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