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People walk through the streets of Huntington Beach, California, U.S., July 19, 2020. /CFP Editor's note: Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a profe
I’ve spent more time than I care to mention over the last several years wondering aloud about the value of in-person trade shows. There’s something seemingly antiquated in the idea of jamming a bunch
A group of Trump supporters protest COVID-19 vaccine in front of the Pfizer Head Quarter in New York City, United States, January 13, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Maitreya Bhakal is an Indian c
A group of Trump supporters protest COVID-19 vaccine in front of the Pfizer Head Quarter in New York City, United States, January 13, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Maitreya Bhakal is an Indian c
If in-person events were still a thing in 2020, there’s a pretty good chance we’d know a lot more about the PlayStation 5 by now. With tech companies setting their own event schedules, how
Lise Buyer has been advising startups on how to go public for the last 13 years through her consultancy, Class V Group. She built the business after working as an investment banker, and then as a dire
The global pandemic has cast a light on decades of cumulative efforts to manipulate and suppress voters, showing that the country is completely unprepared for any serious challenge to its elections sy
Brainbase, the rights management platform that’s helping Hollywood studios manage the licensing rights to their cultural icons, has picked up another $8 million in financing.Behind every popular
In this May 2, 2020, photo, Preston, a senior leader of the Americans, a criminal gang, says a prayer before he and other gang members deliver food in the Manenberg neighborhood of Cape Town, Sou
VCG A lot of hand-wringing is taking place in America over the shocking absence of a federal law that guarantees paid family or sick leave.In interim guidelines issued to businesses in the adv
Fact: 99 percent of all novel coronavirus cases are in China.Fact: Two percent have been fatal.Fact: 80 percent of cases display mild symptoms.Those figures were extracted from a story on Monday o