TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube testified before the United States Senate, where they shared their strategy on the services offered to children and adolescents who use their social networks and the measures they adopt to guarantee a safe and healthy environment, while at the same time used to advance…
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The pandemic destroyed 125 million jobs
The impact of the pandemic on the labor market will be more severe than initially estimated, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). It estimates 4.3 % of the hours worked lost worldwide in 2021 compared to the levels in…
The US Treasury will keep the control of inflation
"I do not think we are going to lose control of inflation," said the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Janet Yellen, although she recognizes that the prices of products and services will continue to increase until the middle…
Cybercriminals take advantage of the success of “The Squid Game” to create malware
ESET's threat analysis specialist, Lukas Stefanko, has indicated that cybercriminals managed to place a malicious application on Google Play called the same as the Netflix series and with the same image. Although it has already been…
WeWork debuts on the New York stock exchange
WeWork was successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange and listed on Wall Street, under the symbol WE, after announcing its business combination with special-purpose acquisitions company BowX Acquisition Corp.
WeWork is currently in…
El Salvador is heading towards economic recovery
Authorities of El Salvador announced that it will be the only country in Central America that by the end of 2021 will have recovered the levels of economic activity registered before the Covid-19 pandemic. This was reported by Douglas…
UK will not stop investments from China
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ruled out sidelining Chinese investments despite differences between London and Beijing regarding human rights and the situation in Hong Kong.
Ahead of the London Global Investment Summit, Johnson stressed…
100 banks join the Swift Go service
One hundred banks, from around the world, have subscribed to the Swift Go service, which facilitates instant international payments to small businesses and consumers in a predictable, highly secure and competitively priced way from their…
CAF grants financing for projects in Argentina
At a meeting held in the Casa Rosada, Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina, and Sergio Díaz-Granados, Executive President of the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) agreed on financing in the order of 2,670 million dollars for the…
Barrel Brent passes the $ 85 mark
The price of Brent oil, the benchmark for Europe, surpassed the threshold of $ 85 per barrel on Friday for the first time since 2018, fueling pressures on energy prices and inflation.
However, after the opening of the markets of the Old…
TikTok removed more than 81 million videos for violating its policies
The social network TikTok eliminated 81,518,334 publications from its platform between April and June of this year, for violating the rules and terms of the community platform, which represents less than 1 % of all videos uploaded to the…
House of Representatives approves US debt extension
The United States House of Representatives approved the extension until the beginning of December of the Government's debt limit, a measure that will now have to be signed by the president Joe Biden, to turn the measure into law, thus…