Digital payments are becoming increasingly popular on King’s Day, especially when buying a beer or paying to use a toilet. Last year, 30 percent more Tikkie transactions were made on the national holiday, compared to 2022.The number of Tikkie payments on King’s Day last year was six times higher than on a normal day. On average, residents of the Netherlands paid approximately 13 euros for their King’s Day purchases via Tikkie. About 13 percent of the amounts were above 25 euros.
The planned roadblock from Extinction Rebellion (XR) on King's Day "looks a bit like pestering police, or pestering the mayor, or pestering Amsterdam," said Amsterdam police chief Frank Paauw. He is unhappy that activists "are going to see how far they can go on a day that the police are at their busiest," Paauw said on the TV show Op1.
Birmingham City Schools, SkillsUSA Birmingham’s Wenonah High School last week won its third straight Cosmetology SkillsUSA Contest in Mobile, Alabama and will represent the state in June at the National SkillsUSA conference in Atlanta. The team is made up of Shuntasia Williams (school’s Valedictorian) LuKeiyah Johnson (senior) Marietta Barnes (junior), Kaitlyn Amison (junior), Zahvia […]
By Brianna Hoge | UAB News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention categorizes nicotine as a chemical compound that is highly addictive. Nicotine can be found in a variety of products, including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and most e-cigarettes, and is the reason those who use these products can find themselves dependent on them. […]
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Rams general manager Les Snead and coach Sean McVay on Friday confirmed a report that quarterback Matthew Stafford wants his contract adjusted to include guaranteed salary beyond this season. NFL.com reported Friday that Stafford was seeking the adjustment. “We’ve discussed those things,” McVay said after the second day of the NFL draft. Stafford, 36, is scheduled to earn $31 million this season and carry a salary-cap number of $49.5 million, according to Overthecap.com. Stafford has two...
Untied LA, a high-end shoe store located at 645 N Robertson Blvd has left the building in the City of West Hollywood. The fashion shoe store, known for offering some rare, highly collectable, and extremely expensive shoes, opened in West Hollywood on March 2022. The business lasted two years before their last day of operations, […] The post Untied LA Shoe Store Has Left the Building in West Hollywood first appeared on WEHO TIMES West Hollywood News, Nightlife and Events.
China’s short-form video industry has been booming. But authorities are worried about the themes of these low-budget but hugely popular productions promoting the wrong values.
Buoyant big tech earnings lifted US stocks on Friday while London scaled another peak as investors tracked a series of takeover bids for UK companies.The tech heavy Nasdaq led the way on Wall Street, adding more than two percent as traders shrugged off official data showing that a key measure of inflation favored by the US Federal Reserve had accelerated in March.The broader-based S&P added 1.0 percent while the Dow was 0.4 percent in the green as major European indices also rose.The markets had...
While Alphabet briefly hit this mark in 2021, Google has now surpassed it comfortably, maintaining this valuation for an entire day.
Cybersecurity firm Darktrace said Friday it had accepted a $5.3-billion takeover bid from US private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which highlighted the British group's "capability in artificial intelligence".The cash bid comes after Thoma Bravo expressed takeover interest two years ago."Darktrace is at the very cutting edge of cybersecurity technology, and we have long been admirers of its platform and capability in artificial intelligence," Thoma Bravo partner Andrew Almeida said in a...
The US central bank's favored measure of inflation accelerated last month, according to government data published Friday, pushing back the chances of an interest rate cut this summer.The hotter print is likely to cement the view that inflation, while down sharply since 2022, remains a challenge, and could keep the Federal Reserve on pause as it seeks to battle rising prices.It also complicates US president Joe Biden's reelection message as he seeks to convince still-skeptical consumers that the...