Lex OPINION: Armageddon beckons. Planet Earth is running low on water and high on carbon emissions. Superpowers are at loggerheads. Modernity has added one more worry to the panic list: information overload. Some 500 hours’ worth of video is uploaded every minute to Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube. Every year, tweets, social media posts, online […]
The popularity of virtual cards has grown again as people sought ways to connect with loved ones and friends in the isolation and separation of Covid-19 restrictions. By Anna Schaverien Nearly a generation after the electronic postcard was introduced, digital greeting cards experienced an increase in demand last year as the pandemic isolated people from […]
Craft beer has become increasingly popular over the past decade. Reporter Jenny Ling discovers what’s behind the success of two Northland breweries. Oysters, sol berries, bananas, feijoas, peaches, honey and grapes – they’re the last ingredients you’d expect to find in beer, right? How about chilli, coffee, vanilla, coconut, cacao, mint, tea, salt and pepper? […]
FILE PHOTO: A view of the exterior of the JP Morgan Chase & Co. corporate headquarters in New York City May 20, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar(Reuters) -U.S. companies scrambled to put in place policies that would allow employees to take a day off after President Joe Biden signed a bill late on Thursday to recognize June […]
Re/Max is slimming down the square footage of its Denver Tech Center headquarters as the company embraces flexible work arrangements for its employees. But a move that might appear to have been prompted by the pandemic was already in the works before then, according to an executive. Susan Zimmerman, senior vice president of human resources, […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks were stranded just below record highs on Friday, with investors left looking for direction after digesting the U.S. Federal Reserve’s more hawkish stance.FILE PHOTO: The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, June 17, 2021. REUTERS/StaffThe pan-European STOXX index of shares eased 0.19% […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks were stranded just below record highs on Friday, with investors left looking for direction after digesting the U.S. Federal Reserve’s more hawkish stance.FILE PHOTO: The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, June 17, 2021. REUTERS/StaffThe pan-European STOXX index of shares eased 0.19% […]
OPINION: The relationship between the New Zealand Labour Party and the trade union movement is a complex one. It is built around unions which operate primarily in the private sector. Sometimes it has to operate on an agree to disagree principle as, inevitably, a Labour Government has to take a wider, national interest view of […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar was headed for its best week in nearly nine months on Friday as investors have scrambled to price in a sooner-than-expected ending to extraordinary U.S. monetary stimulus in the days after a surprise shift in tone from the Federal Reserve.FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration shows U.S. 100-dollar bank notes taken […]
If revenue generation marks a nascent feature’s graduation to maturity, then Instagram’s TikTok clone, Reels, has arrived, as the Facebook-owned platform just launched ads on the short-video feature globally. The early signs must look good. The company only began testing the ads in select markets in April, with a notable lineup of ad partners including […]