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Researchers Suggest Previous Studies On Smartphone Addiction May Be Flawed

Researchers Suggest Previous Studies On Smartphone Addiction May Be Flawed
Researchers are now suggesting the there are some serious flaws in a large majority of studies and surveys that have been conducted in recent times which examines the impact on the psychological...

Myth Of Positive Health Impact Of Moderate Drinking Debunked In New Study

Myth Of Positive Health Impact Of Moderate Drinking Debunked In New Study
Earlier studies which had given rise to the notion that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke have been negated in the results of a major genetic study which has also claimed a very...

10 Steps To Reduce Cancer Risk Suggested By Global Experts In A Cancer Prevention Report

10 Steps To Reduce Cancer Risk Suggested By Global Experts In A Cancer Prevention Report
The vital relationship between cancer diagnoses and diet, physical activity and weight were confirmed in a new study that examined the lifestyle factors that could prevent cancer. The study was...
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Toshiba Reports A Surprising Quarterly Operational Deficit Due To Rising Costs

Disney Surpasses Netflix In Streaming Users, Raises User Prices

Daimler Truck Plans To Keep Pricing High In 2023

Lenovo Of China Reports The Worst Revenue Growth In Nine Quarters Due To The PC Slowdown

Saudi Aramco's Earnings Skyrockets Because To Rising Pricing And Refining Margins

Wide-Body Aircraft Demand Is Reviving As The Boeing 787 Returns To The Fray

Mazda Is Attempting To Lessen Its Reliance On Chinese Sources Following COVID Lockdowns

Qantas Is Expanding Its Freight Fleet In Australia To Accommodate The Demand For Online Shopping

Mizuho Securities Of Japan Plans To Expand And Grow In The United States

Tencent Suspends Sales On Its NFT Platform Huanhe A Year After Its Introduction Due To Mounting Criticisms

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Mizuho Securities Of Japan Plans To Expand And Grow In The United States

Tencent Suspends Sales On Its NFT Platform Huanhe A Year After Its Introduction Due To Mounting Criticisms

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Mizuho Securities Of Japan Plans To Expand And Grow In The United States

Mizuho Securities Of Japan Plans To Expand And Grow In The United States

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Mizuho Securities Co, the brokerage arm of Mizuho Financial Group, has "space for future growth" in the United States, and acquisitions are one possibility under consideration, according to CEO Yoshiro Hamamoto.   Its US business, which mostly consists of investment banking and trading, accounts for around one-third of the Japanese brokerage's profit.   According to Refinitiv...
Tencent Suspends Sales On Its NFT Platform Huanhe A Year After Its Introduction Due To Mounting Criticisms

Tencent Suspends Sales On Its NFT Platform Huanhe A Year After Its Introduction Due To Mounting Criticisms

Companies

Tencent Holdings' non-fungible token (NFT) platform Huanhe will no longer distribute digital collectibles to the public, the company announced on Tuesday, as regulatory scrutiny of NFTs grows in China.   Huanhe, which was officially launched in early August, would no longer be releasing new NFTs to consumers as of Tuesday, according to the Shenzhen-based startup. However, owners of...
Saudi Aramco's Earnings Skyrockets Because To Rising Pricing And Refining Margins

Saudi Aramco's Earnings Skyrockets Because To Rising Pricing And Refining Margins

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The state owned oil company of Saudi Arabi - Saudi Aramco posted its greatest quarterly profit since going public in 2019, bolstered by increased oil prices and refining margins, on Sunday.   Aramco follows oil majors such as Exxon Mobil Corp and BP in reporting strong or record-breaking results in recent weeks as Western sanctions against major producer Russia squeezed an already...
Qantas Is Expanding Its Freight Fleet In Australia To Accommodate The Demand For Online Shopping

Qantas Is Expanding Its Freight Fleet In Australia To Accommodate The Demand For Online Shopping

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Qantas Airways of Australia announced on Monday that it would add six Airbus SE A321 converted freighters to its domestic fleet to replace five ageing Boeing Co 737s and enhance capacity to meet an increase in demand from online shopping.   The A321 freighters will be sourced on the open market and converted from carrying passengers to cargo after commercial discussions, according to the...
Wide-Body Aircraft Demand Is Reviving As The Boeing 787 Returns To The Fray

Wide-Body Aircraft Demand Is Reviving As The Boeing 787 Returns To The Fray

Companies

Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner has returned to the global market for freshly delivered aircraft at a time when demand for wide-body jetliners is gradually reviving after a lengthy decline.   On Wednesday, Boeing delivered its first Dreamliner since May 2021, marking a key milestone for the company following production issues with its wide-body jet. Boeing must now go through laborious...
Mazda Is Attempting To Lessen Its Reliance On Chinese Sources Following COVID Lockdowns

Mazda Is Attempting To Lessen Its Reliance On Chinese Sources Following COVID Lockdowns

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Mazda Motor Corp of Japan stated on Friday that following COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai disrupted supplies and hampered production, it will ask its parts suppliers to expand stocks in Japan and create components outside of China.   The request from the Hiroshima-based manufacturer highlights the vulnerability of vast supply chains that have been put to the test by the pandemic and...
Daimler Truck Plans To Keep Pricing High In 2023

Daimler Truck Plans To Keep Pricing High In 2023

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Daimler Truck will maintain high prices even if certain costs begin to decline in order to compensate for reduced profits since last year, the truckmaker said on Thursday, anticipating solid demand into 2023 despite recession fears.   Energy prices, supply chain bottlenecks in China, and chip shortages will continue to weigh on the company in the second half of this year, according to CEO...
Disney Surpasses Netflix In Streaming Users, Raises User Prices

Disney Surpasses Netflix In Streaming Users, Raises User Prices

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Walt Disney Co surpassed Netflix Inc in total streaming consumers with 221 million and said that it will raise pricing for customers who wish to watch Disney+ or Hulu without advertisements.   In December, when it begins to offer a new option that includes commercials at the existing price, the media behemoth will boost the monthly cost of Disney+ without advertising by 38 per cent to...
Lenovo Of China Reports The Worst Revenue Growth In Nine Quarters Due To The PC Slowdown

Lenovo Of China Reports The Worst Revenue Growth In Nine Quarters Due To The PC Slowdown

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Lenovo Group of China reported its smallest revenue rise in nine quarters as the world's largest PC maker saw device sales slow after a pandemic-fueled surge, and it was also hampered by COVID-19 lockdowns at home.   The results validate Lenovo's strategy of focusing on non-PC sectors such as cellphones, servers, and information technology services, which now account for more than a third...
Toshiba Reports A Surprising Quarterly Operational Deficit Due To Rising Costs

Toshiba Reports A Surprising Quarterly Operational Deficit Due To Rising Costs

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Toshiba Corp reported an unexpected operational loss in the first quarter on Wednesday, blaming it on rising logistical and raw material costs, as well as a global chip shortage.   Masayoshi Hirata, the conglomerate's chief financial officer, told reporters that the company's first quarterly loss in two years was caused by price increases for steel, copper, and components acquired from...
Nikkei Says That Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Will Pay $400 Million For A Reinsurance Broker In The United States

Nikkei Says That Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Will Pay $400 Million For A Reinsurance Broker In The United States

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According to the Nikkei business daily, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, a part of Japan's MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, will spend approximately $400 million to acquire US reinsurance broker Transverse.   According to the Nikkei, the Japanese property insurer intends to obtain knowledge of the reinsurance broker industry, which might contribute in the creation of an insurance...
Withdrawals Suspended By Singapore-Based Cryptocurrency Lender Hodlnaut

Withdrawals Suspended By Singapore-Based Cryptocurrency Lender Hodlnaut

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Hodlnaut, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency lender and borrower, announced that it had ceased withdrawals, swaps, and deposits, the latest symptom of stress in the cryptocurrency business.   In addition, the crypto lender announced that it would withdraw its application for a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to provide digital token payment services, for which it...

World

Experts Urge WHO And Governments To Take Stronger Action Against Monkeypox

Experts Urge WHO And Governments To Take Stronger Action Against Monkeypox
A huge monkeypox outbreak has expanded to at least 20 nations, prompting some notable infectious disease experts to call for speedier action from global health authorities to contain it.  ...

Many More Cases Of Monkeypox Likely To Emerge Worldwide, Expects WHO

Many More Cases Of Monkeypox Likely To Emerge Worldwide, Expects WHO
The World Health Organization expects to find more instances of monkeypox when surveillance is expanded in places where the disease is uncommon.   According to the United Nations, 92 confirmed...

The Quad-Supported Vaccine Roll-Out Will Commence In The Early Half Of The Year.

The Quad-Supported Vaccine Roll-Out Will Commence In The Early Half Of The Year.
The first batch of Covid-19 vaccinations, developed by India's Biological E as part of the Quad group of countries' commitment to providing shots around the world, will be available in the first half...

WHO Chief Tedros Discussed With Chinese Premier About Collaboration On Covid Origins

WHO Chief Tedros Discussed With Chinese Premier About Collaboration On Covid Origins
The Chief of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has discussed the requirement for stronger partnership on the issue of ascertaining the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic with...

The Cashless Economy Paradox: A Renewed Reliance on Cash During COVID

The Cashless Economy Paradox: A Renewed Reliance on Cash During COVID
Despite initial predictions that the onslaught of the coronavirus would be the demise of physical money, people have turned to cash in this time of uncertainty. Historically, the amount of cash in...

People

Musk Establishes A New Model Of 21st-Century Millionaire With Twitter As His Target

Musk Establishes A New Model Of 21st-Century Millionaire With Twitter As His Target
Elon Musk, an iconoclastic billionaire with a stable of firms ranging from electric automobiles to private rocket ships, has become the world's richest person by developing a fortune firmly anchored...

Botswana Sees No Surge In Covid Hospitalizations Despite It Being, One Of The First Countries To Detect Omicron

Botswana Sees No Surge In Covid Hospitalizations Despite It Being, One Of The First Countries To Detect Omicron
Despite being one of the first nations to identify the Omicron variant of thee coronavirus, Botswana has managed to fully vaccinate 71 per cent of its 1.3 million eligible people, according to the...

Musk Conducts Poll On Twitter About Selling Or Not Selling 10% Of His Tesla Stock

Musk Conducts Poll On Twitter About Selling Or Not Selling 10% Of His Tesla Stock
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Inc, resorted to asking his 62.5 million followers on Twitter, through a poll, about whether he should sell off 10 per cent of the stocks in Tesla that he...

Covid-19 Booster Dose Of Pfizer Cleared By US FDA For Older And At-Risk Americans

Covid-19 Booster Dose Of Pfizer Cleared By US FDA For Older And At-Risk Americans
The Food and Drug Administration of the United States approved a booster dose from the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for individuals 65 years and older, as well as all those who are at...

British Health Body Claims Two Shots Of Covid-19 Vaccine Effective Against India Variant

British Health Body Claims Two Shots Of Covid-19 Vaccine Effective Against India Variant
Health officials in the United Kingdom have said that the efficacy and effectiveness of a double dose of Covid-19 vaccines is almost the same for the fast spreading variant of the coronavirus that...