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El Salvador to use energy from volcanos for crypto mining after Bitcoin Law receives green signal

El Salvador has been making news lately after openly embracing Bitcoin [BTC]. The country’s president seemed to be weighing in on the advancement of crypto in the region. Just as El Salvador garnered a thumbs up from Congress, its president, Nayib Bukele, revealed his plans to spruce up crypto adoption efficiently. The crypto community was…

Does the Medline mega-deal herald the return of giant buyouts?

BUYOUT SHOPS are neck-deep in dry powder. Earlier this year the world’s private-equity firms were sitting on $1.9trn in unspent capital. This month three of the biggest, Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman, reportedly agreed to pay $34bn for control of Medline, a supplier of medical equipment. It will be the biggest leveraged buyout since…

Will commercial jets break the sound barrier once again?

FOR 27 YEARS Concorde epitomised jet-setting glamour. Yet its elegant delta wings came with the ear-splitting noise of thirsty military-derived engines; champagne was served in a cramped cabin with small seats; and cruising at twice the speed of sound, which just about halved the time for an Atlantic crossing, cost twice the regular business-class fare.…

Covid-19 has given South Korea’s biotech firms a shot in the arm

UNTIL EARLY 2020 Seegene was a medium-sized South Korean purveyor of medical diagnostics with around $110m in annual sales. On January 27th that year Chun Jong-yoon, Seegene’s boss, and his counterparts at other biotechnology firms were summoned to an emergency meeting by the government. Officials asked if they could produce tests for a novel coronavirus…

Google settles with French trustbusters

ANOTHER DAY, another antitrust case against big tech. In May alone the attorney-general of the District of Columbia filed a complaint against Amazon, Germany’s competition authority went after Amazon and Google to determine whether they have “paramount significance for competition across markets”, and its Italian counterpart hit Google with a €100m ($122m) fine for restricting…