Amid rising tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West, Russia’s oil and gas exports rebounded sharply in 2021. According to the Bank of Russia, crude oil exports climbed to $32 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, the highest level since 2014. As…
Methane is an invisible and odorless gas that is quietly oozing from abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States and affects the climate in a major way. Compared with CO2, methane is much more harmful in furthering climate change. It has 25-80 tim…
The NFT craze has reached the high fashion industry. Our chart with data gathered by Statista gives an overview of different NFT sales by luxury and collectable brands, some of them bringing in millions.A very lucrative NFT sale was launched by Italian…
With by far the largest share of revenues coming from brick and mortar casinos via slots and table games, the U.S. gambling industry unsurprisingly took a pandemic-related hit in 2020. After posting record gross gaming revenue (GGR) in 2019, the total …
As the pandemic forced restaurants to close and diners to stay at home, food delivery services thrived during the Covid-19 crisis. Whether its ordering directly from a restaurant or using one of many available delivery platforms, U.S. consumers have th…
Despite the fact that restaurants reopened in 2021 and millions of Americans returned to dining out, food delivery market leader DoorDash kept its pandemic gains and even managed to build on them. The company that went public amid the Covid-19 crisis i…
Having successfully adapted to the unique circumstances created by the pandemic, Uber beat revenue expectations in the fourth quarter of 2021, capping a year that saw its core rides business partly rebound while keeping momentum in its thriving food de…
Since taking its first steps teaching computers board game strategies in the 1950s, research on artificial intelligence has come a long way. In the 21st century in particular, machine learning and its promise for real-time improvements of algorithms th…
The airline giant Airbus was gaining impressive altitude in terms of net income up to 2018. That year, the French company posted record earnings of €3.1 billion. In 2019, however, the company finally saw the end of a drawn-out legal process involving F…
The global chip shortage has been a pressing issue for all of 2021 and will likely continue throughout 2022, as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Yahoo Finance in November of last year. Nevertheless, Huang’s company is hitting this worldwide issue in stride…