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Financial technology firm Plaid on Wednesday announced a $425 million Series D funding round, more than doubling the total amount the company has raised since its 2012 founding. The new funding pushes Plaid’s valuation to $13.4 billion, according to a source close to the company. That’s a huge jump from the $5.3 billion for which
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Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is continuing his hunger strike despite having a high temperature and a bad cough, according to a post shared by his team on his official Instagram account. Navalny went on hunger strike last week to protest against prison officials’ refusal to grant him access to proper medical care. He
Continue ReadingSantos forward Angelo Gabriel became the youngest goalscorer in Copa Libertadores history on Tuesday as he scored his side’s final goal in a 3-1 victory against San Lorenzo. Aged 16 years, three months and 16 days, Angelo broke Juan Carlos Cardenas’ record that had stood for 59 years with his stoppage-time goal after a save
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(CNN) — Ha surgido una tendencia preocupante en las últimas semanas: los casos de covid-19 entre los jóvenes están aumentando. En Michigan, las hospitalizaciones entre personas de 30 años han aumentado en más de un 600% y las de 40 años en un 800%. Los casos diarios promedio de niños también han aumentado en más
Continue Reading A NASA spacecraft will bid farewell to its asteroid companion of the last few years. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is conducting a final flyby of the asteroid Bennu on Wednesday. The spacecraft made history when it briefly touched down on the asteroid on October 20, 2020, and collecting a hefty 2-ounce sample from the surface. The
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN) — Las fuerzas armadas de China realizaron ejercicios militares simultáneos al oeste y al este de Taiwán el lunes en una medida que los analistas dijeron que era una advertencia para la isla autónoma y su aliado, Estados Unidos. El portaaviones chino Liaoning y sus escoltas estaban realizando maniobras alrededor de Taiwán,
Continue ReadingSamsung expects to have pulled off a strong first quarter, even as one of its chipmaking facilities was temporarily shut by a brutal US winter storm earlier this year. The South Korean conglomerate said Wednesday that it likely made about 9.3 trillion Korean won ($8.3 billion) in operating profit from January to March, marking a
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For the determined buyer with a strong vision and good home improvement skills, the fire sale of crumbling Italian houses for a little over a dollar each has been a gift. The rest of us, unable even to install a simple shelf, can only look on in envy. Until now. Several villages are now offering
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Starbucks lanzó un programa experimental de «pedir prestado una taza» en lugares selectos de su ciudad de origen, Seattle. El programa es parte del objetivo de Starbucks de hacer que sus vasos sean más sostenibles y comenzará como una prueba de dos meses en cinco tiendas de Seattle. Los clientes
Continue Reading It’s been a year since the cruise industry was in the eye of the Covid storm as leisure ships proved themselves ideal places for the disease to spread. On March 13 last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a no-sail order for ships plying American waters while major industry body Cruise
Continue ReadingReal Madrid overpowered Liverpool 3-1 in the first leg of the sides’ Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday, while Borussia Dortmund was left frustrated by a disallowed goal in its 2-1 defeat to Manchester City. Despite being without starting center-back pairing Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, Real Madrid looked a class above the reigning Premier League
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Yahoo Respuestas, una plataforma de preguntas y respuestas que fue lanzada hace más de 15 años y se convirtió en una de las mayores fuentes de información (y de desinformación) de internet, será eliminada el 4 de mayo. El sitio web, propiedad de Verizon, anunció el lunes la cancelación de la
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Chile, Sebastián Piñera, promulgó este martes la reforma que posterga las elecciones municipales, de gobernadores regionales y constituyentes, del 10 y 11 de abril para el 15 y 16 de mayo. La razón para aplazar las elecciones es el alto número de contagios de coronavirus que ha registrado Chile
Continue Reading (CNN en Español) — Este martes, la Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (Conmebol) informó a través de un comunicado que se ha suspendido el partido por Copa Libertadores de America entre Independiente del Valle de Ecuador y Gremio de Porto Alegre de Brasil que debía de jugarse este miércoles 7 de abril en Ecuador. Conmebol dijo
Continue ReadingKim Kardashian West is joining the ranks of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other moguls: She is officially a billionaire, according to Forbes. Forbes released its annual “World’s Billionaire List” Tuesday, which placed West on the elite list for the first time. The magazine said West’s booming businesses, KKW Beauty and Skims, helped put her
Continue Reading A Navy sailor shot and wounded two other sailors at a facility in the Maryland city of Frederick on Tuesday morning before driving to the US military’s nearby Fort Detrick, where police shot and killed him, authorities said. The US Navy tweeted that the shooter was a Navy hospital corpsman, and Fort Detrick officials told
Continue ReadingAs many as one in three people infected with Covid-19 have longer term mental health or neurological symptoms, researchers reported Tuesday. They found 34% of Covid-19 survivors received a diagnosis for a neurological or psychological condition within six months of their infection, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry. The most
Continue Reading Two sailors are hospitalized following a shooting Tuesday at a military installation in Frederick, Maryland, authorities said. The US Navy identified the gunman as Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a Navy hospital corpsman who was fatally shot by police. Fort Detrick officials told CNN he was posted at that installation. One victim is in critical condition but
Continue ReadingThe US is on track to vaccinate half of all adults by the weekend with at least one Covid-19 shot, according to a White House adviser, but that does not mean the country is finished with the pandemic. “We do have to remember that there are 100 million-plus adults that still haven’t been vaccinated,” White
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California, the first state to implement a lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic, plans to fully reopen activities and businesses beginning June 15, state officials said Tuesday. Falling infection rates, low hospitalizations and rising vaccinations are reasons this can be done, state Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said. California’s mask mandate, however, would remain
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