Over 70 percent of video game workers claim their studios have no interest in integrating cryptocurrency payments or NFT mechanics into their games. This is the result of the annual State of the Game Industry survey by the Game Developers Conference (G…
After massive gains during the first stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, net paid subscriber growth at Netflix took a hit in 2021. The latest quarterly results exceeded expectations, but when comparing to 2020’s Q4 subscriber additions, the 8.28 million a…
In the first half of January, an estimated 8.8 million U.S. workers had to stay home due to being infected with Covid-19 or caring for someone who became infected. This is not only an increase of over two million people year on year, but also the bigge…
After a couple of months of respite, when things were starting to look up and many Americans caught a glimpse of pre-pandemic life in the first half of 2021, Covid-19 returned to the front pages and the top of many people’s minds with the emergence of …
While the number of immigrants in the U.S. as well as their share of the population has generally been rising, the level of the foreign-born population is not unprecedented. As of 2019, the latest year available through U.S. Census data, 13.7 percent o…
As of September 2021, Sony’s PlayStation Plus had around 47 million paying customers. This makes it the gaming subscription service with the most members worldwide, well ahead of its biggest competitors Xbox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch Online. Ninten…
Can you expect a raise in salary this year? According to the latest forecasts by Willis Towers Watson (WTW), that very much depends on your location in the world. Their outlook for salaried employees looks by far the rosiest for those plying their trad…
Tech, pharma and car companies were the only organizations in 2021 with a net positive trustworthiness rating worldwide. 34, 31 and 27 percent of participants in the annual Ipsos Global Trustworthiness Monitor deemed these types of corporations to be d…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed an additional $200 million in defensive security assistance to Ukraine during his visit to the country. Blinken met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday amidst growing tension between th…
When it comes to attractiveness for startups, Lagos leads the ranking of African cities according to data by StartupBlink. The Nigerian capital managed to outperform its direct competitors Nairobi, Cape Town and Johannesburg in 2021, a trend that is li…
