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China’s Instagram-like app Xiaohongshu expected to top $1 billion profit ahead of potential IPO Pandemic

China’s Instagram-like app Xiaohongshu expected to top $1 billion profit ahead of potential IPO

Xiaohongshu will turn its livestream shopping business into an independent unit. (Image credit: TechNode/Eugene Tang) Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social platform often likened to Instagram, is expected to double its profit to more than $1 billion in 2024 ahead of a potential IPO, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The potential milestone reflects…
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December 13, 2024
President Biden Sets a Record Granting 39 Pardons and Commuting Nearly 1500 Jail Sentences Pandemic

President Biden Sets a Record Granting 39 Pardons and Commuting Nearly 1500 Jail Sentences

President Joe Biden granted clemency to nearly 1,500 individuals in a historic move on Thursday, commuting sentences for those successfully... The White House announced Thursday morning that President Joe Biden commuted jail sentences for nearly 1,500 people and granted 39 pardons in what is considered to be the largest single-day…
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December 12, 2024
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency Pandemic

Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It's the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The commutations announced…
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December 12, 2024
Younger Americans Who Bought Their Homes During the Pandemic Will Be 2025’s Biggest Sellers Pandemic

Younger Americans Who Bought Their Homes During the Pandemic Will Be 2025’s Biggest Sellers

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December 11, 2024
The bottom line Pandemic

The bottom line

The societal reverberations of the pandemic were as eerie as they were unexpected. One of the vivid Covid moments that etched itself into my memory came one day when a local music teacher confided to me through a bright blue face mask and behind the back of a conspiratorially raised…
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December 11, 2024