Pandemic

Australia (26 July 2022): Finty.com, the popular financial comparison site, has just released their latest credit card keyword search statistics. Finty is best known for making it easier to compare financial products across banking, crypto, investing, and lending from 200+ partners. Their study of 110 randomly selected high-volume credit card-related…

Topline The good news for buyers is that there was a slight deceleration in home prices in May as higher interest rates continued to temper demand in the booming housing market, according to industry data released Tuesday, and experts say there's plenty of room for the downtrend to continue—particularly in…

Shanghai Health Commission reported a total of 4 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases this morning, Tuesday, July 26. A further 15 local asymptomatic cases were also reported. Of the 4 new local cases reported, 4 tested positive during central quarantine, while 0 tested positive during regular screening. Of the 15 new local asymptomatic…

Mandatory masking has been gone for a while now, but some small businesses still have masking-preferred policies. "We think it's the best way to keep our customers and our community at large safe and healthy. It puts less stress on our already overburdened health-care system," said Charles Foley, manager of A Second…

Pinoys shop online more than in-store – study Filipino consumers are returning to physical stores, but their digital shopping habits formed during the pandemic continue to be higher than in-store purchases, according to a study by Meta. The latest Seasonal Holidays Study by Meta revealed that 67 percent of year-end…

Back in 2019 during the initial Phase 4 reveals, it was teased at the end that the Fantastic Four are finally coming home to Marvel Studios. With the pandemic, timelines got skewed and projects were moved or put on hold entirely. We now know that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will…

A report out today (Monday, July 25) by the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) and northern National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs), with contributions from University of Manchester researchers, shows that a parallel pandemic of mental ill health has hit the North of England…

After laying dormant for over a year due to the pandemic, Marvel Studios came roaring back in 2021 with nine titles premiering in theaters and on Disney+. Among them were the first billion-dollar grossing movie of the pandemic, “Spider-Man: No Way Home”; Marvel Studios’ first ever animated series, “What If…?”;…

In 2020, schools in Canada faced the unforeseen obstacle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and they shuttered in-person learning. No matter where they were living, students had their lives disrupted. Later in the year, online learning was blended with new forms of in-person learning. As case numbers began to rise again…

The Entertainment Software Association saw a big drop in revenue when the coronavirus pandemic cancelled E3 2020. Axios has published a review of the trade body's tax filings for the year ended March 31, 2021, which shows the organisation's revenues reached $40 million. That's a year-on-year decline of $10 million…