In Mozambique, the Province of Cabo Delgado is experiencing a growing crisis caused by a terrorist insurgency. In late March of this year the coastal town of Palma, close to the border with Tanzania, and home to about 75,000 was overrun by insurgents resulting in the death of potentially hundreds and the displacement of roughly 35,000 people fleeing the besieged town.
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Leading British retailer, Marks & Spencer (M&S) has expanded its online market to over 100 countries with the launch of 46 new websites. This launch, in countries such as Argentina, South Korea, and Uzbekistan, has doubled the number of overseas markets.
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The Canadian housing market has been experiencing a large surge in demand for larger living spaces, leaving a dwindling supply that has made housing prices climb. In fact, the average price of buying a home in Toronto just surpassed 1 million dollars, which represents a 15% increase just over the past year alone
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Visa, a global payments technology company, has reported on March 29th that the company will begin to accept USD Coin to settle transactions in this payment network. This was the latest sign of acceptance expanding since the first introduction of digital currencies by mainstream financial industries.
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Bicycles, an invention thought up in the 1800s, suffered one of the worst occurrences of supply deficiency in the summer of 2020. Prices of bikes were soaring extraordinarily high, more than they have in at least a decade. The feelings of cabin fever from lockdown, mixed with the dangers of spreading, reopened many to the possibility of using bicycles for transportation. Obviously, a traditional bicycle has its limitations. However, so many of the aspects of traditional bicycles are remedied by the emerging market of E-Bikes, or bikes that have an electric motor to assist or completely replace pedaling.
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Last Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that it is now possible to purchase Tesla vehicles with Bitcoin in the U.S. The self-proclaimed “Technoking” revealed this news through Twitter and tweeted, “You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin.” The payment procedures have also been updated on the support page on Tesla’s website with further information on the transaction.
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On Thursday, March 18th, Google announced that they plan to spend $7 billion on new offices and data centers across the country, creating 10,000 new jobs in the process, according to Fox Business. $250 million will be invested in New York City alone and an additional $1 billion in Google’s home state of California.
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Despite usually opening the tax season in late January, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) delayed the start of the 2020 tax season to February 12, announcing that they would start accepting and processing tax returns then. The deadline for individuals to file their taxes remained on April 15 until a recent announcement from the IRS that the agency is postponing the filing deadline, giving taxpayers an additional month to file their returns. As of now, income tax and payments will be due on May 17. While this new change applies to individual taxpayers and families, including people paying self-employment tax, this relief does have an exception—it will not apply to the estimated tax payments that many small business owners owe for the first quarter of 2021.
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Miami Beach had to expand a check in time and highly sensitive situation, potentially for half a month, after city police battled to control side by side hordes of spring breakers a weekend ago, Mayor Dan Gelber said Monday.
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A 21-year-old Colorado man dealt with murder indictments Tuesday in the shooting frenzy at a Stone store that left 10 individuals dead and powered mayhem as terrified customers escaped to wellbeing in the midst of the hail of projectiles.
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