By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — It was close, but when student discounts website Student Beans asked users which social media platform had led them to make a purchase after they saw an item featured, 60 percent answered Instagram and 55 percent…
Majority Of World Citizens Believe Companies Should Hand Over Sustainability Duties To Bots: Survey
By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — For Oracle’s aptly named “No Planet B” survey, 11,005 consumers and business leaders in 15 countries were polled about the current state of corporate sustainability. For corporations, the results are not pretty. …
3 Out 4 Adolescent Drug Overdose Deaths In 2021 Due To Fentanyl: AMA
By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — From 2010 to 2020, drug use among Grade 10 students in the U.S. remained remarkably consistent, registering at 30.2 percent at the beginning of the decade and 30.4 percent at the end. In 2021, the American Medica…
Business Travel Has A Long Way To Go To Match Pre-Pandemic Levels: Deloitte
By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — It likely won’t be until 2024 that U.S. business travel is back up to the levels it enjoyed in 2019. The Delta and Omicron variants really put a crimp in the business travel recovery. According to Deloitte, busin…
Biden’s Dismal Polling Continues, Little Hope Of A Bounce Before Midterm Elections
By Alex Lang New York (Knewz) — President Joe Biden’s approval rating remained dismal as his fifth quarter running the executive office came to a close. The most recent quarter saw Biden with an average 41.3 approval rate, according to a report from Ga…
Amazon Rolls Out Prime Service Program For Third-Party Stores
By Alex Lang New York (Knewz) — Amazon plans to add third-party merchants to its prime services allowing customers a further cache of near-immediate goods. On April 21, Amazon announced a new program called “Buy With Prime.” The program brings third-pa…
Average Monthly Mortgage Payments Up More Than 50 Percent From 2021 In These U.S. Markets
By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — According to Zillow’s latest monthly “Real Estate Market Report,” there are five major metropolitan areas in the United States where new homeowners are paying 50 percent or more on their mortgage than a year ago….
Most Common Long COVID Symptoms Are Fatigue And Loss Of Sense Of Smell: UCLA
By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — Out of 1,038 non-hospitalized and post-discharge Covid-19 patients monitored by UCLA over a one-year span, 309 developed long COVID. Or as the affliction is more formally known, Post Acute Sequelae of Covid-19 (P…
Drivers Are Distracted By Their Phone Up To 9 Times During Typical 20-Mile Commute: Nationwide
By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — In 2020, insurance company Nationwide introduced the SmartRide app to gather customized feedback on distracted driving. While the company claims the app led to a 10 percent reduction in everyday hand-held distrac…
Tracking The Enemy: How Ukrainians Are Using Russian Troops’ Greed Against Them
By David Wetzel New York (Knewz) — Ukrainians are tracking Russian troops with technology as the war in the county ensues. Vitaliy Semenets has been tracking the redeployment of Russian troops thanks to a pair of Airpods that were looted from his home …