Bitcoin and Ethereum help drive crypto market cap back above $2 trillion February 10, 2022 The total cryptocurrency market cap yesterday returned to hallowed ground above $2 trillion for the first time in nearly three weeks
The A-Z of wine: This week, B is for… Beaujolais February 10, 2022 How do you pronounce Beaujolais? Boh-zholl-ayy What’s this then? A French wine region, located between the city of Lyon and the southern end of Burgundy. Best known for making reds from the Gamay grape. It’s possibly a part of Burgundy, depending on who you talk to, although it’s usually considered part of ‘wider Burgundy’. The [...]
Crypto M&A value soared 5000 per cent in 2021, says PwC report February 10, 2022 The value of merger and acquisitions in the crypto industry skyrocketed by 4,846 per cent in 2021 according to PwC.
North Korea refuses Covax vaccine deliveries as scheme shrinks number of allocated jabs February 10, 2022 North Korea has reportedly not accepted any Covid-19 vaccines from the global COVAX scheme, leaving millions of allocated vaccines to be re-distributed. The worldwide vaccine sharing programme has dialled back the number of doses it had allotted to North Korea to help it meet international immunisation targets, Reuters first reported. A little over 8.1m vaccines [...]
Snoop Dogg snaps up his original label Death Row Records February 10, 2022 Snoop Dogg has bought Death Row Records, the label that helped launch his career with the release of his 1993 debut album, Doggystyle.
End of work from home gives TfL a well-deserved boost to ridership February 10, 2022 Transport for London (TfL) received a well-deserved boost following the end of the ‘work from home’ order. According to data released today, since restrictions were lifted on 19 January, Tube ridership numbers have increased 25 per cent, reaching 60 per cent of pre-pandemic levels. As workers flock back to the Square Mile, stations closest to [...]
Neat Burger eyes further sites ahead of Canary Wharf opening February 10, 2022 Neat Burger is readying a Canary Wharf store after opening a flagship site in Bishopsgate last month. The plant-based group will open its site in the financial district on 16 February, as the chain hopes to entice office workers looking to make healthy choices. The brand has seen delivery orders in the Square Mile and [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Peloton to ride high again February 10, 2022 They were the darling of the pandemic, and then they flopped. The American exercise bike company Peloton was a 15-minute story of fame for the ages. Its fortunes soared as the likes of Rishi Sunak and Miley Cyrus bragged about their secret spinning habit, but after gyms reopened, they floundered. Even more so after they [...]
Uber shares jump after food delivery service reports profits for first time February 10, 2022 Uber shares last night jumped more than 6 per cent in post-market trading after its food delivery service, Uber Eats, reported its first profit ever. In the fourth quarter of 2021, Uber Eats reported a $25m EBITDA profit, while Uber’s revenue grew 83 per cent to $5.8bn, beating analysts’ forecast of $5.36bn. The group’s mobility [...]
Wealth manager Blackrock to offer crypto trading, say reports February 10, 2022 The world’s biggest asset manager Blackrock is reportedly planning to offer crypto trading to its investor clients.
