COVID-19
Indian Gold Demand Could Hit Three-decade Low as Loc...
India’s gold consumption in 2020 could fall as much as 50% from a year ago to the lowest level in nearly three decades as a nationwide lockdown has closed jewellery stores during key festivals and the weddin...
April 16, 2020
12:57 pm By Neha Mule
Abbott Launches Third COVID-19 Test, a Laboratory-Ba...
Abbott announced the launch of its third COVID-19 test, a lab-based serology blood test for the detection of the antibody, IgG, that identifies if a person has had the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Antibody te...
April 16, 2020
6:43 am By Neha Mule
Google to slow hiring for rest of 2020, CEO tells st...
Alphabet Inc’s Google will slow hiring for the rest of the year, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told the company’s staff in a memo on Wednesday.
“We’ll be slowing down the pace of hiring ...
April 16, 2020
5:17 am By SIN Bureau
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Supply Chain Manageme...
Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released its second wave of research on COVID-19 impacts on businesses and their supply chains recently. Its insights reflect input gathered by primarily from U.S.-based r...
April 15, 2020
2:39 pm By Neha Mule
Apple and Google Collaboration Welcomed by European ...
An Apple collaboration with Google will make it quicker to get systems for tracing coronavirus infections up and running, the prime mover behind a European effort to support the smartphone technology says.
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April 15, 2020
11:44 am By Neha Mule
India to Sell Hydroxychloroquine to Malaysia to Trea...
India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister told Reuters on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar on export...
April 15, 2020
10:06 am By Neha Mule
Coronavirus: UK economy should shrink by record 35% ...
The Office for Budget Responsibility said that this was based on an assumption that the current lockdown would last for three months. Under this scenario, unemployment would hit 10%, from its current 3.9% rate...
April 14, 2020
1:25 pm By Meeta Ramnani