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What Does 1GB of Mobile Data Cost in Every Country? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-mobile-data-worldwide/

Marriott International will suspend donations to Republican senators who voted against certifying President-elect Joe Biden, after considering the “destructive events” at the Capitol last week https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-10/marriott-suspends-donations-to-senators-who-opposed-vote-result

Where Will the Next Billion Internet Users Come From? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-next-billion-internet-users-worldwide/

The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns (2021 Edition) https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-periodic-table-commodity-price-returns-2021/

Visualizing S&P Performance in 2020, By Sector https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/sp-performance-in-2020-by-sector/

Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-parler.html?smid=tw-share

After Riot, Business Leaders Reckon With Their Support for Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/business/corporate-america-trump-capitol-mob.html?smid=tw-share

Fixed mortgage rates sink to lowest levels in history but could be headed higher https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/07/fixed-mortgage-rates-sink-lowest-levels-history-could-be-headed-higher/?tid=ss_tw

America’s biggest companies are flourishing during the pandemic and putting thousands of people out of work https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/50-biggest-companies-coronavirus-layoffs/?tid=ss_tw

Perspective | The 2021 tax season could get ugly. File early and electronically. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/tax-season-file-early/?tid=ss_tw

Bond Yields Rise. Here’s What That Means For Mortgage Rates | NextAdvisor with TIME https://time.com/nextadvisor/mortgages/bond-yields-rise-on-election-results/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc&utm_campaign=newsletter+brief+default+ac&utm_content=+++20210109+++body&et_rid=21583563

The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/magazine/points-guy-travel-rewards.html?smid=tw-share   

Accessory dwellings offer one solution to the affordable housing problem https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/accessory-dwellings-offer-one-solution-to-the-affordable-housing-problem/2021/01/07/b7e48918-0417-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html?tid=ss_tw  

Perspective | Opera is taking entirely new forms. Its survival may depend on it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/opera-experiments-online-mail/2021/01/06/fea98666-4eac-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Metro expects to receive $610 million in federal stimulus, avoiding cuts to service https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-budget-cuts/2021/01/08/199218be-51e4-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Twitter bans Trump’s account, citing risk of further violence https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/twitter-trump-dorsey/?tid=ss_tw

Dominion sues pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, seeking more than $1.3 billion https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dominion-sues-pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-seeking-more-than-13-billion/2021/01/08/ebe5dbe0-5106-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Police let most Capitol rioters walk away. But cellphone data and videos could now lead to more arrests. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/trump-mob-tech-arrests/?tid=ss_tw

Facebook, Twitter could face punishing regulation for their role in U.S. Capitol riot, Democrats say https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/facebook-twitter-congress-trump-riot/?tid=ss_tw

How to get a small business loan from the new $284 billion PPP program https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/sba-ppp-loans/?tid=ss_tw

Biden assembling multitrillion-dollar stimulus plan with checks, unemployment aid https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/08/biden-stimulus-plan/?tid=ss_tw

Perspective | IRS rushes to fix error that sent millions of stimulus payments to wrong bank accounts https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/irs-tax-preparer-stimulus-error/?tid=ss_tw

The economy lost 140,000 jobs in December https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/jobs-report-unemployment-december-2020/?tid=ss_tw

U.S. trade policies have disproportionately harmed Black and Latino workers, not just the White working class Trump courted, researchers find https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/trump-trade-black-latino-workers/?tid=ss_tw    

Hospital Bills For Uninsured COVID-19 Patients Are Covered, But No One Tells Them https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/22/925942412/hospital-bills-for-uninsured-covid-19-patients-are-covered-but-no-one-tells-them?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social      

Attempted coup at Capitol presents key opportunity for cyberattack, experts warn https://fortune.com/2021/01/06/capitol-attempted-coup-riots-cybersecurity-hacking/

How hackers could undermine a successful vaccine rollout https://fortune.com/2020/12/18/covid-vaccine-hackers-rollout-pfizer-shipments-cold-chain-blueprints-doubt-skepticism-coronavirus/

On cloud nine: Why these cloud security stocks are soaring https://fortune.com/2020/12/03/stock-market-cloud-security-stocks-crowdstrike-zscaler-okta-earnings-crwd-zs/

Hardship Growing as Pandemic Enters 11th Month, New Census Figures Show https://www.cbpp.org/blog/hardship-growing-as-pandemic-enters-11th-month-new-census-figures-show

The coronavirus intensified a hunger crisis last year, but 2021 could be worse https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/06/coronavirus-starvation-poverty-inequality-hunger-un/?tid=ss_tw

One solution for keeping you motivated during workouts: A digitally enhanced reflection https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/envisionbody-ai-fitness-clone/?tid=ss_tw

He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/technology/tim-berners-lee-privacy-internet.html?smid=tw-share

CES 2021 is still happening — without Vegas, crowds, prototypes or germs https://www.washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2021/01/09/virtual-ces/?tid=ss_tw

Space Force delays deal to ‘further evaluate’ contractor found to have acted fraudulently https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/30/space-force-contract/?tid=ss_tw

More virus-zapping robots are coming, and they’re here to stay https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/lg-uv-robots/?tid=ss_tw

 

         

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