- By Ian Wyatt
- IPOs, PayPal, tech stocks
$1.5 trillion. That’s the total current value of the companies built by an exclusive club of PayPal insiders . . . Known simply as the PayPal Mafia. It’s more than […]
$1.5 trillion. That’s the total current value of the companies built by an exclusive club of PayPal insiders . . . Known simply as the PayPal Mafia. It’s more than […]
$156.2 BILLION . . . That’s how much venture capital funding poured into American companies last year . . . Marking a 391% increase in venture capital funding in the […]
The Federal Reserve says it will continue to keep the “punch bowl” full. Top Federal Reserve officials continued a barnstorming effort on Thursday. The Federal Reserve officials are telling investors […]
The costs of Covid-19 will be with us for a long time. That is the finding of two studies from the UK that examined those with “long covid.” Meanwhile, AstraZeneca […]
Two coronavirus strains, first detected in California, were classified as “variants of concern” by the CDC last week. The CDC said the California variants may be about 20% more transmissible. […]
Battling the coronavirus is a bit like playing Whack-A-Mole. Fix one problem and another one immediately pops up. Air travel, slowly recovering, hit a 52-week high on Sunday. Meanwhile, the […]
Even with the successful vaccination rollout and progress toward next-generation vaccines, the theoretical threshold for beating Covid-19 looks out of reach. This is what scientists who are modeling the pandemic’s […]
Progress against the virus the U.S. seems to be stalling out. The U.S. has had six weeks of incredible progress against Covid. But now, that momentum has stalled at a […]
It seems like booster shots against the mutating coronavirus are in our future. That’s what the head of Britain’s effort to sequence the virus’s genomes, Sharon Peacock, believes. The reason […]
Just as the vaccination campaign gains steam in the U.S., a major obstacle has appeared: vaccine hesitancy. And vaccine hesitancy seems to be based on politics, not science. In a […]