Consumers in India will soon be able to sell their closets on the Poshmark app, as the social marketplace prepares its second global expansion this year and third overall. For the Redwood City, Calif.-based company, which opened in Canada in 2019 and Australia last February, the addition represents more than just a business move. When Poshmark launches in India by […]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave transportation workers the option to get vaccinated by Labor Day or face weekly coronavirus testing. The mandate mirrors an order Cuomo issued for state hospital employees last week in response to the surging delta variant. The announcement follows a week that saw New York's seven-day coronavirus case count jump to 2,418, an increase of […]

It is easy to forget how badly COVID-19 has savaged the United States since January 2020. Officially, America has had 35,039,644 confirmed cases, which is about 18% of the world total, despite large surges in high-population countries such as Brazil, India and Indonesia. The number of U.S. fatal cases is 618,197, or about 15% of the global figure. Most of […]

Growing Covid case numbers in Ireland still loom over many businesses despite the gradual reopening of the economy. Case numbers have steadily risen in recent weeks, driven by the delta variant, with average daily numbers above 1,000. The further reopening of hospitality services has drawn criticism with the moves compared to the staggering surge in cases in late December when […]

German business confidence weakened unexpectedly in July as supply bottlenecks and concerns over rising coronavirus infections weighed on the economy, survey results from the ifo Institute revealed on Monday. The business climate index fell to 100.8 in July from a revised 101.7 in June. The score was forecast to rise to 102.1 from June’s initially estimated value of 101.8. Assessment […]

Reimbursement claims, possibility of a third Covid wave keeping non-life insurers on tenterhooks. The non-life insurance industry has received over 1 million Covid-related claims in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (Q1FY22), higher than in the entire FY21, indicating the severity of the second wave of the pandemic. According to the General Insurance Council data, which is not […]

OPINION: Something odd happened one night last week. For the first time in more than 16 Covid-ridden months, I went to a cocktail party. It was a business women’s networking thing, on a rooftop in the middle of London, and it was by turns cheering, daunting and deeply uncomfortable. The sight of so many new faces, eagerly knocking back free […]