DAILY DOSE: January 15, 2021
Posted on 01/15/2021
1. Dating app Bumble files for IPO, seeks Nasdaq listing.
2. Apple Inc. is planning a podcast streaming service to compete with Spotify and other smaller providers.
3. Russia Foreign Ministy says that Russia is starting to pull out of the Open Skies Treaty.
4. As the Biden-Harris inauguration approaches and the vaccine rollouts continue, Democrat Governors and Mayors who implored the efficacy of lockdowns are calling for the easing of COVID-19 lockdowns. For example, during a news conference on Thursday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she plans to speak with Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker on ways to roll back COVID-19 restrictions on restaurant and bars to allow them to reopen “as quickly as possible.” As total COVID hospitalizations in New York reached 8,808, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted on January 11, 2021, “We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.”
5. CDC warns the UK COVID variant strain to become dominant in the United States.
6. Dutch Prime Minister Rutte’s government resigns two months before election.
7. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expects to send impeachment over to Senate next week. A number of Democrat representatives demanded Trump to be impeached just after his inauguration in 2017. Trump gets the record of being the only U.S. president impeached twice in one term.