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Disaster in Sri Lanka after 3 days of torrential rains
Nearly 150 people are still wanted following the landslides in Sri Lanka. The toll continues to grow after the torrential rains that have hit the country for three days. Seventeen bodies were found on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 37. The Red Cross said it fears that there are several hundred villagers missing. What…
Ebay sells majority stake in Korea business
CEO Jamie Iannone continues his diet for Ebay. However, the competition rushes ahead in Corona times. It remains to be seen whether the strategy will work. San Jose – The online trading platform Ebay is continuing its streamlining course: The group is separating from the majority of its Korean business and wants to sell its…
21 dead in Sri Lanka bombing
New attack in Sri Lanka, still attributed to Tamil rebels. A bomb exploded on Friday when a bus passed in full rush hour in the southern suburbs of Colombo, the capital. The death toll is at least 21 dead and around 50 injured. According to the police demining team, the bomb that was by the…
TWITTER – Short message service starts subscription offer
In the future, Twitter subscribers will be able to edit finished tweets for 30 seconds. The new subscription offer will not be available in Germany for the time being. San Francisco – For the first time, Twitter introduces functions for subscription users only In the future, you will be able to edit finished tweets for…
Adani Power MD Engages with BOI on Energy Plans
In a significant move that underscores the growing business synergy between India and Sri Lanka, Anil Sardana, the Managing Director of Adani Power, met with the Chairman of the Board of Investment (BOI) Sri Lanka, Dinesh Weerakkody, on March 16, 2024. This meeting of the minds from Adani Power leadership team and BOI officials, as…
Sri Lanka: Cameron invites Tamil issue to Commonwealth summit
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited northern Sri Lanka on Friday, the scene of decades of civil war. He is the first foreign leader to go there. Her convoy was briefly blocked by Tamil women who lost relatives during the conflict. They wanted to draw the attention of the head of the British government to…
WhatsApp and self-destructing photos: news on the way
The instant messaging giant is working on a new feature to enhance privacy WhatsApp working to strengthen user privacy. The world’s most used application for instant messaging would be focusing its efforts on an upgrade. The new feature should allow users to activate a timer to match the photos they share, on groups or in…
Sri Lanka bereaved by series of bloody attacks
The death toll of the attacks that hit luxury hotels and Catholic churches celebrating Easter on Sunday worsened to 207 dead and more than 450 injured, police said. The Sri Lankan authorities have declared an immediate curfew and the temporary blocking of social networks to prevent the dissemination of “incorrect and false information” in response…
The Giants’ War: Facebook accuses Apple of anti-competitive behavior
Facebook has accused Apple of engaging in anti-competitive practices, launching another blow in the dispute between the two technology giants over the planned privacy changes that Apple is preparing for iOS14, reports Reuters, quoted by Mediafax. “Apple is behaving anti-competitively, using its control over the AppStore to make a profit, to the detriment of creators…
Sprint to social commerce, TikTok and Shopify allies (also) in Italy
The partnership that makes a community of 1 billion global users available to the e-commerce platform expands in Europe. “We help companies to grow and restart”. Here’s how the new service works Full speed ahead on social commerce, the sale of products and services through digital platforms and social media. In fact, the alliance between…
What path will Sri Lanka take now that the Tamil Tigers have acknowledged their defeat?
The rebels, who have been fighting since 1972 for the independence of the north and east of the island, announced yesterday that they had stopped fighting the government army. Earlier today, this army claimed to have saved all of the 50,000 civilian hostages of the Tigers in their enclave. For the Norwegian Eric Solheim, ex-mediator…
Sri Lanka: dozens of dead after torrential rains
At least 17 people were found dead in Sri Lanka on Wednesday while more than 200 families are missing in the mudslides that affected 3 villages in the center of the country, about 70 kilometers north of the capital, Colombo. This new report brings to at least 37 the number of dead since the start…
Ammunition explosion kills at least 60 people in Sri Lanka
At least 60 people died in the explosion of a truck carrying ammunition near the port of Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. It is an accident. The explosion took place inside a police station and most of the victims are police officers. According to local media, two Chinese entrepreneurs were also among those killed. The…
Successful YouTubers often highly educated
BredaRelatively many successful Dutch YouTubers are highly educated. Four in ten YouTube stars have completed an HBO or WO education, while this share is more than 10 percent lower for all Dutch people. This is apparent from research by CVSter.nl into the training courses of Dutch YouTubers with more than 100,000 subscribers. Gamers often highly…
France will tax digital giants from December
For Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, considers that they were “the only winners” of the crisis linked to the coronavirus. France will tax the digital giants in December, after the failure of negotiations at the OECD, confirmed Sunday the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, on France 3. “We had suspended the…
Twitter founder puts his first tweet on sale: already a $ 2 million offer
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has put his first tweet, authenticated on the blockchain, up for sale. The highest bid so far is $ 2 million. Twitter boss Jack Dorsey put his very first tweet up for sale on Friday, March 5, and the highest bid was $ 2 million on Saturday, a sign of appetite…
Sri Lanka: joint statement by the UN Security Council
The plight of civilians trapped in fighting in the northeast of Sri Lanka finally walked through the door of the Security Council of the UN . After further escalation of violence between government troops and the Tamil rebellion, its 15 permanent members adopted a joint declaration. “The members of the Security Council strongly condemn the…
The stake of the poll in Sri Lanka: turning the page Rajapakse
It is the potential return of Mahinda Rajapakse on the political scene which is the real stake and unknown of the poll. Mahinda Rajapakse, defeated in the presidential elections of January 2015, tries to return to business, by becoming Prime Minister. He indeed reigned over the country without division for ten years. In 2004, he…
FAANG the Tech Giants on the stock exchange
What does SAP have in common with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google? In terms of corporate value, it is rather low, but at least SAP is the only German company that plays a role in the world market with software. That’s why we’re not only looking at the stock exchange prices of the FAANG…
Netflix loses “Friends” to Amazon Prime Video
It’s a bitter blow for Netflix: The direct competitor Amazon has secured the rights to one of the world’s most popular series for its streaming platform “Prime Video” via an exclusive deal. The popular sitcom “Friends” is in many ways one of the company’s most valuable formats for the streaming giant Netflix. At Netflix alone,…