Tag: slowly

24 SEP

‘Semblance of normal life’: Syria’s Deir ez-Zor slowly recovers from ISIS siege

RT Exclusive Published time: 24 Sep, 2017 01:23 Edited time: 24 Sep, 2017 01:25 The lifting of siege around the city of Deir ez-Zor by Russian Air Force-backed Syrian army has tremendously eased the life of people there, but it’s still just a semblance of normal life, as the full eradication of Islamic State terrorists […]

12 SEP

‘We lived in fear & horror’: Deir ez-Zor residents slowly return to normality after ISIS siege

Life is slowly resembling some kind of normality for the residents of Deir ez-Zor following years under the yoke of Islamic State terrorists. Humanitarian convoys with much needed aid finally poured into the city after a joint Syrian-Russian offensive broke the blockade. At least nine heavy trucks carrying food and humanitarian aid reached the city […]

21 AUG

Walmart is slowly expanding its Uber-powered grocery delivery

Walmart has been testing a grocery delivery service since 2013, when it expanded from San Francisco and San Jose to the Denver market. It’s been using ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft to deliver the goods since last year, in Denver and Phoenix. The company is now expanding the delivery service to two new cities: […]

14 JUL

Singapore’s economy has been growing much more slowly than people thought

Thomson Reuters Singapore’s economy continued to splutter in the June quarter, growing at a far slower pace than expected. According to advanced estimates offered by the Singaporean government, the economy grew 0.4% in seasonally adjusted annualised terms, missing forecasts for an expansion of 1.1%. Despite the large miss it was still a significant improvement on […]

24 JUN

The U.S. is slowly submitting to the EU’s 2018 privacy law

GUEST: Figure this one out: Just shy of 100 percent of U.S.-based privacy professionals believe the importance and complexity of managing privacy in their organizations is increasing. Similar numbers (97 percent!) acknowledge they will increase their investment in managing privacy. Yet fully 61 percent of these same professionals acknowledge they have done little to prepare […]

28 MAY

Wall Street’s workforce is slowly and relentlessly shrinking

It’s relentless. Every year, the number of bankers and traders employed by the largest banks on Wall Street shrinks a little. Headcount across investment banking, equities and fixed-income trading at the top 12 banks dropped by 1,900 from the first quarter of 2016 to the first quarter of 2017, a fall of 3%, according to new data […]

11 FEB

Here’s how slowly Twitter has grown compared to Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat (TWTR)

While President Trump has helped make Twitter a regular part of the national conversation, the business behind the microblogging service is not looking up. That feeling was only reinforced by the meager revenues the company reported on Thursday. Things look especially slow when you compare the platform to rival social media apps. As this chart […]

08 FEB

Mac malware is still crude, but it’s slowly catching up to its Windows rivals

Enlarge (credit: Patrick Wardle) Malicious Microsoft Word documents that abuse macros have long been the bane of Windows users. Now, security researchers have found what may be the first such real-world attack to infect Macs. The attack was found in a Word file titled “U.S. Allies and Rivals Digest Trump’s Victory – Carnegie Endowment for […]