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After all, the company will not be ‘plaid’, the company announced last week. Following objections raised by the Department of Justice (not to mention a lawsuit), the credit card company halted its proposed $ 5.3 billion merger with the start of fintech, Plaid. The company claims it would probably have been if he had continued, but it would have led to years of lawsuits that Visa was unwilling to spend.
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It’s no secret that the COVID pandemic has kept millions of people in their homes and in front of their screens since March last year, but the amount of time we spent during that time will lower your jaw. According to Valve, spending hours on its Steam service jumped from $ 20.8 billion in 2019 to $ 31.3 billion last year – an increase of 50 percent year-on-year!
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You would think that the earth did not reach a high temperature point last year – just the record set in 2016 – would be at least a silver lining in what humanity’s increasingly gloomy environmental news is. But that is only until you realize that the depressed temperatures were due to the massive wildfires of 46 million acres in Australia and a deadly global pandemic that has already killed millions of people.
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Now that the long-awaited vaccine against COVID is finally available to people under the age of 75, it is of utmost importance to get it into the arms of essential workers. Instacart has announced that it will issue $ 25 vaccination grants to the buyer so that they do not have to choose between working on an order and saving the life saver.