Different approaches to paying for investment research exacerbated by pandemic

The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the moment. The company is now valued at $4.5 billion. Today’s round follows last year’s $125 million Series D. At that point the company was […]

It seems the demand for Safaricom’s M-Pesa payment product never eases. Since its 2007 launch in Kenya, the fintech app has commanded over 70% of the mobile money market in that country. When COVID-19 hit the East African nation of 53 million in March, the Kenyan Central Bank turned to M-Pesa as a public health […]

Producers overwhelmed as supply chain disruption fuels fears of shortages

We find ourselves in a time when certain businesses are being asked to scale to levels they never imagined. Sometimes that increased usage comes in bursts, which means you don’t want to pay for permanent extra capacity you might not always need. Today, Confluent introduced a new scale-on-demand feature for its Apache Kafka cloud service […]

Viewers were enraged as a photo of Slatkin was shown early on in the tribute piece with 'Andre Previn - Composer' written over it.

Observers who assumed Suarez's audacious effort on Saturday was a stroke of luck would need to see Barca's tweet on Friday, of Suarez scoring with the same 'back-to-goal' technique in training.

Laverne Cox was the picture of elegance and grace as she stepped onto the Emmy Awards red carpet on Sunday afternoon.

Twelve years after the release of her first mixtape, Playtime is Over, Nicki Minaj is calling out artists and writers alike for what for not acknowledging her influence on hip hop music.

Michelle Keegan 's romp in the cubicle left fans flustered on Thursday night's episode of Brassic, but viewers still enjoyed the series so much they begged for the second season to be released.

Centenarian Fredie Blom was born on May 8, 1904, in Adelaide near the Great Winterberg mountain range of South Africa's Eastern Cape province. He celebrated his 116th yesterday.

Centenarian Fredie Blom was born on May 8, 1904, in Adelaide near the Great Winterberg mountain range of South Africa's Eastern Cape province. He celebrated his 116th yesterday.

Australian alternative dance group Rufus Du Sol and DJ Flume will go head-to-head at next year's Grammy Awards.

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 30, joked the residents surrounding her property would be getting 'some view' as she posed wearing just a fluffy pillow.

Follow Sportsmail's live coverage of the 0-0 draw between Colombia and Peru as both sides managed to book a place in the Copa America quarter-finals.

DOMINIC LAWSON: The coronavirus sweeping the world can be traced back to a food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new strain first transferred from wildlife to humans.

Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of bird flu have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab.

The entertainer and author again was caught in a flub that was reminiscent of when he gave Miss Colombia the crown in 2015 and then had to take it back and give it to Miss Philippines.

Bobby Watson (pictured right as a baby) died on Sunday afternoon after falling into a pool at the bottom of a water slide at a water park in Phuket, Thailand, while on a day out with his parents.

Face masks became a vital piece of equipment in 1918 - be it for those out for a stroll on a street, Red Cross nurses treating the injured or a worker spraying the top of a London bus.

The German heavy metal fanatic who ploughed his van into a cafe in Münster killing two was 'badly affected' by narrowly missing the attacks on the Bataclan in Paris in 2015, MailOnline can reveal.

Lucio Delgado, from Mexico, took to Facebook last week to share that a letter he received informed him that he 'failed to successfully pass the reading test.'

Geraldine Rodriguez (pictured), better known as twerk instructor 'Geri Hoops', claims she was flying out of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport when the incident took place last month.

More than 13,000 migrants have gathered on the Turkish side of the river which runs 125 miles along the frontier and separates them from Greece, and therefore the EU.

Millions of people have quickly had to adapt to working from home during the pandemic, leading some to scramble to look presentable over video chats with colleagues.One strategy workers have used is the purchase of a ring light, a product that can be used in your video set-up to to improve lighting of your face on-camera.Right lights have already been popular buys for influencers, vloggers, and TikTok creators who adopt various tools to produce professional-quality videos uploaded online.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.The ring light is beloved by YouTubers and aspiring TikTok creators for casting a flattering, even glow across anyone's face. Now, ring lights are seeing widespread interest among people tuning into Zoom work calls from their poorly lit homes during the pandemic.Video

I'm A Celebrity's Charlotte Crosby and Nikki Osborne went head-to-head on Sunday.  

America ranked top in a new survey looking at 'soft power' - a country's ability to influence others without using military or economic might - followed by Germany and the UK, researchers found.

The news comes just two weeks after Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov was admitted to hospital with flu and pneumonia symptoms after spending two days walking up freezing mountains.

New York woman Angelina Friedman, 101, who was born in the height of the Spanish flu in 1918 and went on to survive cancer, beat the novel coronavirus this month.

Naomi Davis, known as Taza on Instagram, left NYC for Arizona in March, despite recommendations not to travel. Her first sponsored post since then was flooded with criticism and deleted

Two players from the Cronulla Sharks have been sent home from team training after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.

Gold Coast Titans star Bryce Cartwright has been one of the NRL's most prominent critics of vaccines, with his wife revealing last year the couple would not be vaccinating their children.

he Gold Coast Titans star back-rower indicated to team officials that he will refuse to get the jab when training resumed training on Monday as his anti-vaxxer wife stood by his decision.

The Prime Minister weighed into the NRL controversy surrounding Gold Coast Titans star anti-vaxxer Bryce Cartwright on 2GB.

NRL WAGs Taylor Winterstein and Jade Grant came out in support of Bryce Cartwright, who told Gold Coast Titans doctors he would refuse the flu shot mandated by the league.

The Gold Coast Titans backrower is waiting to hear whether he can play when the season restarts on May 28 after telling team officials he will refuse the compulsory influenza injection.

The league has conceded players wanting an exemption will still be allowed to play if they sign a waiver confirming they acknowledge the potential health risks.

Gold Coast Titans' Bryce Cartwright, Nathan Peats and Brian Kelly were informed they would be unable to play on Friday afternoon following talks between the NRL and Queensland Government.

Up to 20 top Australian rugby league footballers are holding out on having a mandatory flu shot as the NRL prepares to resume its 2020 season. 

Jesy Nelson had a reason to smile on Sunday after she was awarded with the inspirational influencer of the year prize at PrettyLittleThing's virtual influencer awards.

As the world braces for another pandemic with COVID-19 we look back at how Australia handled the Spanish flu - what worked and what did not, who was killed and who lived through it.

The spread of the infection has started to slow down in China but has sped up in other parts of the world including South Korea, Iran and Italy, and scientists say it may never disappear completely.

A report by a media analytics firm shows Facebook posts which are said to have been fabricated by Iran in an effort to boost the candidacy of Ron Paul and sabotage Mitt Romney.

Popular Russian influencer Marina Balmasheva, 35, who is marrying her 20-year-old stepson, has posted a photo of what they both looked like 13 years ago when her now-fiancee was just seven.

The President has frequently drawn comparisons between the early 20th Century influenza pandemic and coronavirus but has repeatedly muddled his history.

Food and Drug Administration officials hit out at Purell's maker GOJO with a warning letter earlier this month, demanding that the company take down false claims it prevents flu.

The map tracks the lethal flu-like infection, which has killed more than 1,300 people and infected 60,000 - mostly in China - and pits it against SARS in 2003, swine flu in 2009 and Ebola in 2014.

Fan favourite Connie Crayden is the latest Married At First Sight star to sign with an agency to kickstart her career as an Instagram influencer. 

James also had 25 points, nine assists and a crucial dunk off a miss late in the fourth quarter to clinch a match-up of the top two teams in the Western Conference.