Winter is coming, and with it cold, short days (and maybe some snow if we’re lucky). While it may not yet quite feel like it, this Sunday the clocks will be turned back an hour, dragging those long dark evenings closer to our everyday lives and, as thi…
Facebook is now called Meta. The company behind social media services like Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook has rebranded itself to advertise a world where meeting up in the real world can be substituted or at least supplemented by extended reality sol…
Whether you call it Coke, Cola or refer to it by its actual brand name Coca-Cola: Everybody around the world knows the soft drink. Its red-and-white design is ubiquitous and even responsible for Santa Claus’ wardrobe choice. Still, the beverage isn’t l…
While short- and long-term credit dealings are as old as human civilization and credit cards as we know them have been around since the 1950s, fintech firms offering a “buy now, pay later” option for almost every imaginable online purchase is comparabl…
Volkswagen’s quarterly results didn’t live up to analysts’ expectations, with the world’s second-biggest car manufacturer generating an operating profit of $3.3 billion instead of the $3.5 billion projected by data service provider Refinitiv. This not …
Local and regional news are often said to simply subsist in the shadows of bigger media organizations dominating the news market. According to the Digital News Report 2021 conducted by Reuters Institute in 46 markets worldwide, survey participants stil…
While the car manufacturer’s market capitalization has been edging closer towards the $1 trillion mark for some time, it took an unprecedented order of 100,000 Tesla cars by car rental company Hertz to finally push the corporation over the hump. This n…
Out of the 137 countries pledging carbon neutrality, only 60 have put those pledges into written form via a concrete law or policy document. So while Australia’s long-awaited commitment to net zero by 2050 in the days leading up to the COP26 global cli…
Instagram. You just don’t get it. If you’re over the age of 45, chances are this statement applies to you. According to new Statista research, there is a stark age divide when it comes to users of the social media platform. Of those aged between 18 and…
There has been an alarming decrease in the average sperm count of Western men over the last few decades. As this infographic from our new Then & Now series shows, research has revealed a 59 percent fall between 1973 and 2011 – from 337.5 million to jus…