New Look has extended its returns period to counter slower post New Look has extended its free returns policies for both online and instore purchases during the pandemic. Customers who have bought items since 15 October 2020 now have until 31 March 2021 to return them, so long as they …
Read More »Who is Stewart Bainum? The New Owner of The Baltimore Sun
Journalists at other Tribune papers, which include The Chicago Tribune and The Daily News, have resisted the possible sale to Alden ever since the New York hedge fund revealed in November 2019 that it had bought nearly one-third of Tribune shares. Two Chicago Tribune investigative reporters wrote letters to civic …
Read More »Biden’s Medicare pick would be 1st Black woman to hold post
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has picked a former Obama administration official to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency oversees government health insurance programs covering more than 1 out of 3 Americans and is a linchpin of the health care system. If confirmed by the …
Read More »Royal Mail Share Price is Up 40% YTD
The Royal Mail share price has been on an uptrend recently, helped by the huge demand for delivery services. The shares are trading at 476p, valuing the postal group at more than £4.7 billion. They have risen by more than 40% this year and by 290% from their lowest level …
Read More »Google unveils new education tools coming to Chromebooks
Chromebooks had their moment in 2020, especially in the classroom. As a result, Google is leaning even more into education by announcing more features that should make the lives of teachers and students a little easier. In a blog post on Wednesday, Google said it’s planning to introduce 40 new …
Read More »GameStop Short Seller Says He’s Been Targeted With Anti-Semitic Harassment By Reddit Trolls
Topline Summoned to testify before a House committee Thursday about about his hedge fund’s short trading of GameStop shares, Melvin Capital CEO Gabriel Plotkin will say that Reddit traders behind the meme stock frenzy targeted him with anti-semitic attacks. Gabe Plotkin, chief investment officer and portfolio manager of Melvin Capital …
Read More »Pfizer, Moderna vaccines protect against new coronavirus variants
By Amanda Sealy and John Bonifield, CNN (CNN) — A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday suggests that Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against concerning new coronavirus variants, including one first seen in South Africa called B.1.351. For the study, researchers at Pfizer …
Read More »Joe Biden’s Medicare pick would be first Black woman to hold post
President Joe Biden has picked a former Obama administration official to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency oversees government health insurance programs covering more than 1 out of 3 Americans and is a linchpin of the health care system. If confirmed by …
Read More »More than a dozen Clacton Royal Mail workers in self-isolation
A POSTAL service has reassured residents deliveries will not be impacted after more than a dozen employees were told to self-isolate after a case of Covid-19. Royal Mail’s delivery office, in Oxford Road, Clacton, has recently recorded one positive case of coronavirus and 16 people are now having to quarantine. …
Read More »Lakestar Latest To Join SPAC Craze In Europe
Share Tweet Share Share Share Email Klaus Hommels, founder of venture capital firm Lakestar, launched a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Wed. (Feb. 17), Lakestar SPAC I SE, with the goal of buying a tech company in Europe. The Luxembourg-based SPAC will list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under …
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