SINGAPORE: Singapore office rents may overtake those of Hong Kong for the first time since 2009, a

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The death toll from Covid-19 during the presidency of Joe Biden will soon overtake the number of

Aug.... The task of overtaking X poses a significant challenge for Threads, analysts said. The

Music streaming giant Spotify has reportedly surpassed tech giant Apple to become the top podcast provider in the US. During the company's Q3 2021 earnings call, Spotify said that according to Edison Research and its own internal sources, it" recently became" the No.... 1, at 24 per cent of weekly podcast consumers. This put it ahead of Apple Podcasts for iOS( 21 per cent) and YouTube( 18 per cent).... Edison Research said its sample is in excess of 8, 000 weekly podcast consumers.--IANSvc/ ks

The TAKE with Rick KleinIt takes less than ever to find partisan grooves these days--and the fact that they've been etched deeper out of the fallout from Jan.... Yet mask-wearing and vaccine requirements have long since taken on cultural as well as political significance, and the fallout of Biden's latest comments offer just a taste.... Former President Donald Trump is offering strong pushback to mandates, and consider as well how readily some Republicans are using Dr....

The TAKE with Rick KleinIt takes less than ever to find partisan grooves these days--and the fact that they've been etched deeper out of the fallout from Jan.... Yet mask-wearing and vaccine requirements have long since taken on cultural as well as political significance, and the fallout of Biden's latest comments offer just a taste.... Former President Donald Trump is offering strong pushback to mandates, and consider as well how readily some Republicans are using Dr....

BERLIN( BLOOMBERG)-Germany's Social Democrats rose to an almost four-year high in a weekly poll, adding to evidence that they are pulling ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc before a national election on Sept 26. Insa's poll is the third to show Dr Merkel's conservatives now lagging the Social Democrats, who may be set for a remarkable comeback after almost ending up as an opposition party four years ago. Support for the Social Democratic Party increased twopercentage points to 24 per cent,

Short video-making platform TikTok's users now spend more time each month watching content than YouTube users, says a new report. According to app analytics firm App Annie, in the US, TikTok first overtook YouTube in August last year and as of June 2021, its users watched over 24 hours of content per month, compared with 22 hours and 40 minutes on YouTube.In the UK the difference is even starker as TikTok overtook YouTube in May last year and users there now reportedly watch almost 26 hours of c

26 election, has ebbed since the end of June, when it was polling at 28%-30%. The latest poll by research institute Forsa put the conservatives on 23%, unchanged from a week ago.... The Social Democrats( SPD), whose chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz tops the popularity ratings, was up 2 points at 21%. This is the slimmest gap between the two parties since March 2017 and opens various coalition options.... Her bloc, made up of her Christian Democrats and the Bavarian Christian Social Union, look