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iPhone owners 167 times more at risk of being hacked than Android phone users
“LG, Nokia and Sony were the phones that hackers were least interested in, generating under 100 searches a month for each individual brand,” reports goodtoknow.co.uk.
Gene therapy to conquering hepatitis C: A decade of medical breakthroughs
Multiple new categories of medicines have moved from dreams and lab benches into the market and people’s lives, and investors who came along for the ride often reaped extraordinary profits. The Nasdaq Biotech Index is up 360% over the last 10 years to the S&P 500’s 190%. And that’s without mentioning the hundreds of billions of dollars in takeovers that rewarded shareholders with windfalls.
Startups find new ways to assess risk and create new businesses tied to auto insurance
Data on everything from how frequently a car is booked, the type of vehicle rented, the destination, the amount of time between making a reservation and the trip, how hard the driver slams on the brakes to how punctual and friendly a person is on the drive could all be fair game for the industry.Startups like Turo Inc. and BlaBlaCar believe they can take this information and use it to find new ways to assess risk and create new businesses tied to auto insurance.
India ranks 73rd in UN index assessing e-commerce readiness
India is ranked 73rd in the 2019 index, slightly improving its position from 80 in 2018 and 83 in 2017. According to the report, in India Internet shoppers as a share of Internet users was 11 per cent and Internet shoppers as a share of population 3 per cent in 2017.
Younger millennials and Gen Z fuelling Indian credit card business
Business is booming at the country’s second-largest card issuer. After Carlyle arrived in 2017 to replace GE Capital in the two-decade-old venture, earnings were 7.4 rupees a share in the year through March 2018. The most recent six-monthly profit topped that figure. Younger millennials and Generation Z — those born after 2000 — are driving this growth. In India’s fiscal year ended in March 2016, barely 2 per cent of credit card transactions were originated by people below 25 years of age. That number has jumped to 10 per cent. Add the 26-30 age group, and the youth share of plastic is 35 per cent, beating people over 40 by as much as eight percentage points.
Minimal Exposure to Air Pollution Also Leads to Hospitalisation: Study
The study also confirms several previously established causes of hospital admission associated with short-term exposure to PM2.5, including heart and lung diseases, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and diabetes
At 17.5 million, Indian diaspora largest in the world: UN report
The report also noted that international remittances increased to USD 689 billion in 2018. The top three remittance recipients were India (USD 78.6 billion), China (USD 67.4 billion) and Mexico (USD 35.7 billion).
India’s sugar demand takes a beating over slowdown, health concerns
The industry should make more effort to promote sugar as a better and natural alternative to high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners, said John Stansfield, an analyst at Group Sopex. There are places in the market that still offer growth, he said, pointing to Africa as an example.
Smokers who switch from tobacco to vaping rapidly boost heart health: Study
The findings, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, will fuel further international debate about the potential risks and benefits of e-cigarettes amid more than 2,000 cases of vaping-related lung illness and more than 40 deaths in the United States in recent months.
Financial services industry misses out on $700B a yr by ignoring women: Report
For example, if insurers sold life policies to women at the same rate as to men, they could generate $500 billion in new premiums, Oliver Wyman estimated. Women also tend to hold more of their assets in cash rather than stocks and bonds, costing wealth and asset managers a potential $25 billion in fees.