Since April of this year, Japanese companies and organizations involved in the development of the vaccines that protect against coronavirus infection, periodically experience cyber-attacks. This was announced on Monday, October 19, by Kyodo news agency, with the reference to the experts of the American company CrowdStrike, engaged in the cybersecurity.
According to experts of the organization, hackers tried to use e-mail viruses to access the files which containing information on the progress of vaccine development from COVID-19.
“CrowdStrike believes that hackers from China may be behind these attacks- reports Kyodo.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of the end of September, there were about 190 projects in the world related to the development of vaccines that protecting against the new type of coronavirus infection. Such developments are also being actively pursued in Japan – in particular, at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the University of Tokyo, etc. Some vaccines are currently undergoing the clinical trials.
Latvian airline AirBaltic will resume flights to Ukraine on December 1 and will start a new flight Vilnius-Kiev to Boryspil airport. The schedule includes departures twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays on Airbus A220-300. Flights from Vilnius will depart at 09:00, from Kiev – at 11:15. “Vilnius Airport can be used for transit to […]
Last week, from November 16 to 22, more than 4 million people in the world became infected with the new type of coronavirus, which is a record number since the beginning of the pandemic. This was announced on Tuesday, November 24, the press service of the World Health Organization. According to the WHO, in these […]
If coronavirus vaccines become widely available and help restore international trade and economic growth, the dollar is likely to fall by 20% in 2021. Bloomberg reports that this forecast was made by Citigroup Bank. If the forecast comes true, it will be a record drop since 1985, when the DXY index fell by 18.5% over […]
During the first weekend of weekend quarantine, catering establishments lost 27% of turnover. This is as of Monday, November 16, according to the platform Opendatabot, citing data from Poster, a restaurant automation company. It is noted that during the week the turnover of cafes and restaurants fell by 10% compared to the previous week. In […]
Reuters reported, In Switzerland, the procedure of accelerated testing of Moderna vaccine has started. This will allow to approve the drug if it passes all clinical trials. “Swissmedic can get an initial idea of the benefits and risks of vaccine candidates before the study is completed. This speeds up the review process and at the […]
The World Health Organization expects that by the spring of 2021, the situation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic could change significantly. The main hope is the invention of vaccine against the disease. This was stated by Adviser to the Director-General of the WHO Bruce Aylward. He noted that by March the situation could […]
The net loss of the second largest American oil and gas company Chevron, which accounts for the parent company, in the first nine months of 2020 amounted to 4.878 billion dollars against a profit of 9.534 billion dollars a year earlier, the company said. The diluted loss per share was $ 2.63 against earnings of […]
In the world last week, coronavirus was found in another 2.4 million people – a record high since the beginning of the pandemic. This was reported by the WHO on Tuesday, October 20. “The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to grow rapidly, while the number of new deaths remains relatively stable … As of […]
Facebook in Australia will block the ability to view and share the news. The head of the Australian branch of the company William Easton stated this on Thursday, February 18. This decision is a response to the bill of the Australian government, which will force Google and Facebook to pay the media for the original […]
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Gazprom can circumvent European restrictions on the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline through a contract for gas supplies to the German market, which it has concluded with the Austrian company OMV. As we know, the EU gas directive requires half of the capacity of gas pipelines to be provided to independent suppliers. Except for routes for […]
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Shares of Peloton Interactive, which rose 184% since the beginning of the year, fell 3.6% over the past three trading days, despite two price target increase from experts of investment companies. Last week, JP Morgan raised its target price for Peloton shares from $ 58 to $ 105. On Friday, analysts at JMP Securities raised […]
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The National Bank did not enter the interbank foreign exchange market this week, as in the previous seven weeks. Since the beginning of the year, the NBU has bought $ 290.5 million on the interbank market and sold $ 70 million. The balance of interventions amounted to 220.5 million dollars. It will be recalled that […]
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According to the State Statistics Service, as of January 1, 2017, there are 15 206 join-stock companies registered in Ukraine, 3 122 of which are the public companies. Although the Ukrainian independence celebrates its 25- year anniversary already, only recently the national business has started to review the governance system and the system of effective […]
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After the closure of the Russian market, Milkiland determined priority markets of the European Union, the Middle East and China. CEO of the company Anatoly Yurkevich said it in an interview with “Business.” “We see a very simple way out of this situation: work in the domestic market, beginning to develop and manufacture products for […]
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Production and supplies of the American manufacturer of the electric vehicles Tesla grew in the third quarter of 2020 by almost 1.5 times a year, the company said in the release. Therefore, Tesla’s deliveries in the third quarter amounted to 139.3 thousand against 97 thousand in 2019, and the production – 145.036 thousand compared with […]
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LDaily prepared the short overview of latest news in the sphere of business and finance for last week for the readers. If you missed something, it would a good opportunity to correct it. 1. Epic with e-declarations came to an end, but not for all On October 30, 2016, at 24:00 the stage of the Ukrainian […]
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On Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase announced the launch of its mobile payment service QuickAccept, and on Wednesday, Visa launched its application called Tap to Phone. The purpose of both programs is to offer sellers an easy way to accept contactless payments from customers via a smartphone or tablet. According to Visa, in the context of the […]
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The Guardian reported that Sun Cable has announced the construction of the world’s largest solar panel power plant worth $ 20 billion. It will be located between the Australian cities of Darwin and Alice Springs, and its capacity will be 10 GW. The project plan has already been submitted to the Environmental Protection Office of […]
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In September 2020, the Italian company Lamborghini sold 738 cars worldwide. This is a new record for the company, according to its website. At the same time, in the third quarter of 2020, 2,083 Lamborghini cars were sold worldwide. In the spring of this year Lamborghini was forced to close all its plants for two […]
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Pfizer and BioNTech shares rose sharply on Monday by 4% and 10%, respectively. This happened after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assigned an “accelerated” status to their two COVID-19 potential vaccines. Although the companies have not yet completed the final tests and have not received approval for the production and sale of their […]
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This issue is devoted to the achievements and successes of cooperation of both countries. Diplomats and businesspersons of German companies in Ukraine tell readers about their way to the country’s market, share their achievements, as well as experience in introducing innovations in companies and plans for the future. Ernst Reichel, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary […]
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The Bloomberg News agency estimated the yield a wide range of assets in 2015, ranging from currencies and stock indexes, to commodities and junk bonds. It is in the segment of junk bonds (junk, high-yield bonds) determined the most profitable asset last year – Eurobonds of Ukrzaliznytsia with maturing in May 2018. Investments in this […]
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Chinese Internet company Alibaba will buy more than a fifth of the shares of its division, specifically of a fin-tech company Ant Group, as part of its future IPO on the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shanghai, Alibaba said in a release. “Alibaba has agreed to subscribe for 730 million shares of the initial […]
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The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, became the highest paid CEO in the United States last year, according to Forbes magazine. The publication reminds that in 2018 Musk gave up his salary at Tesla. Instead, he receives a reward in the form of options on the company’s shares. In 2020, the businessman received […]
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