GAFAM, short for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, are not only commercial tech giants, but also some of the most active contributors to open source projects on GitHub. As our chart indicates, not even open source veterans can hold a candl…
September 17 marks Constitution Day in the United States and recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. September 17, 1787 was the day that the document was signed, before being ratified in 1788 a…
Even though most of the states in the U.S. have passed their own minimum wage laws, the federal minimum wage remains unchanged at 7.25 U.S. dollars since July 2009. Taking this into consideration, it’s no surprise that U.S. residents earning minimum wa…
The Chinese special administrative region of Macau is well-known for its gambling tourism. With the government of the People’s Republic potentially tightening regulations following a public consultation concerning the gambling market, stock prices of t…
When Apple reported its latest full-year results in October, there were no major surprises: iPhone sales were slightly down year-over-year, services revenue reached yet another all-time high and the segment formerly known as “Other products”, now calle…
One major positive effectsof Covid-19 vaccinations have been made plainly apparent in new Office for National Statistics data for England. As this infographic shows, of all Covid-related deaths in the country from 2 January to 2 July 2021, 37.4 percent…
The Chinese housing market has continued a slowdown that it started by the middle of 2019 during the coronavirus crisis. In July 2021, the year-over-year increase in the country’s 70 major housing markets was only 4.6 percent for new residential buildi…
The 9/11 attacks are the most costly man-made disaster recorded in modern history, at least if you look at them from the perspective of the insurance industry. The attacks against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and other buildings in the US cost …
The number of Americans who is required by their employers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 took a jump up in August to 19 percent, according to a Gallup poll. The number had been as low as 9 percent in July and 6 percent in June.Over the past couple…
An emerging economic crisis in the UK has led to builders being forced to down tools amid what is being described as a “perfect storm for construction”. As the latest figures from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy show, material…
