A desperate shot by star LeBron James has secured defending champion Los Angeles Lakers a place in the American basketball league NBA playoffs. With a minute to play in the jump-off against Golden State Warriors and the shot clock close to 0 seconds, James hit the ball from a […]
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Striking figure from Google: the company now has 3 billion active Android devices. The news was announced at the Google I / O developer conference. That is immediately five hundred million more than were announced at the I / O conference last year. The previous significant milestone, 2 billion, […]
The German cartel watchdog has started an investigation into possible “anti-competitive practices” by online store group Amazon. In doing so, the Bundeskartellamt uses a new law that gives the regulator more power to tackle large tech companies. According to the head of the competition authority Andreas Mundt, it is […]
To get the corona pandemic under control, rich countries should provide poorer countries with vaccines before vaccinating children. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said so. Tedros wants countries that are already advanced in vaccinating their populations to give vaccines to Covax, an international program that […]
A strike action started at IBM on Wednesday morning after the failure of negotiations between trade unions and management in the context of a major restructuring plan. As a result, 196 jobs are at risk in Belgium. Some 50 employees, the maximum number according to the corona measures, have […]
China on Monday demanded that the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom cancel a United Nations (UN) video conference on Beijing’s crackdown on the Uyghurs. “The video conference, scheduled for Wednesday, is based on pure lies and political bias,” Chinese diplomats told the UN in a statement. “Beijing […]
The stock exchange in Tokyo gained ground on Monday. The sizeable Japanese steel companies, in particular, showed substantial price gains thanks to the strong outlook from Nippon Steel. The Japanese car manufacturers, who will come up with figures later in the week, were also considerably higher. In addition, investors […]
Twitter this week suspended several accounts for the purpose of posting messages from Donald Trump. The former US president himself was permanently banned from his medium of choice in January. On Thursday, the social network confirmed that it took action against these accounts after it was reported in American […]
The Japanese capital Tokyo considers an extension of the state of emergency in the prefecture necessary. The governor reports that mutations of the coronavirus are becoming dominant, and as a result, more and more younger people are testing positive for the virus. Tokyo is one of the four Japanese […]
Two members of the Indian delegation at the G7 summit in London have tested positive for the coronavirus. The entire delegation is in isolation, according to the British government. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will attend Wednesday’s meetings digitally. Jaishankar has not tested positive for the coronavirus itself, according […]
