Ticket sales for future passenger trips on a Blue Origin craft to the edge of space are nearing $100m, said Jeff Bezos, after he joined the space-tourism firm’s first crewed flight. Airlines are pleading with the American government to allow transatlantic travel to re-open fully. Strict curbs on international passengers remain in force in many countries. The World Tourism Organisation said that between January and May, international tourist arrivals were 85% below 2019 levels, and 65% down on 2020. The $26bn will be paid out over several years, if all the states involved agree to the deal. Johnson & Johnson and three drug distributors reached a $26bn settlement with representatives of American states and local governments that resolves thousands of lawsuits related to the opioid crisis. Five9 provides cloud-computing for customer contact centres, work that has been mostly completed from employees’ homes recently. The company is looking at adding games to its platform to boost its user base.Īlso looking for post-pandemic sources of growth, Zoom struck a deal to buy Five9 for $14.7bn. In North America, where competition for video-streaming services is intense, Netflix lost 400,000 customers. Netflix gained 1.5m subscribers in the second quarter, far below the 10.1m who joined in the same quarter last year, when lockdowns bit. The app-based brokerage came to prominence earlier this year when small investors used it to trade heavily in “meme” stocks. Robinhood filed for an IPO that could see it valued at up to $35bn.
News of the deal took some of the heat out of oil prices. The United Arab Emirates threw its support behind the pact when it secured a change to the way its output quota is calculated. With the aim of curbing soaring prices, a factor behind recent inflationary pressures, the cartel will start pumping out more oil next month, and gradually expand production further. Members of OPEC+, which includes Russia, reached an agreement to increase oil output. Like Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission, Mr Kanter is a critic of Big Tech, founding a law firm that represents smaller rivals to Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Jonathan Kanter was nominated by Joe Biden to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division. But he did not announce any sanctions as retribution. Using blunt language, Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, said China had “fostered an ecosystem” of cyber-criminals who work for the state as well as personal gain. The Biden administration accused the Chinese government of being directly behind the cyber-attack on Microsoft’s email system in March, which compromised the communications networks of companies around the world.
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NSO said the report was based on a misleading interpretation of the data, and that it sold its software only to law-enforcement agencies of “vetted governments” for the prevention of crime and terror acts. Emmanuel Macron, Cyril Ramaphosa and Imran Khan, the leaders of France, South Africa and Pakistan, were reportedly on the list, along with the wife of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist murdered by agents of the Saudi regime. Your browser does not support the element.Įnjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Ī report by a group of investigative journalists and Amnesty International claimed that the phone numbers of human-rights activists, journalists and politicians were on a list of 50,000 potential targets of unscrupulous governments for hacking using Pegasus software, which is made by NSO, an Israeli spyware firm.
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