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This statistic illustrates the market share of payment processing technologies worldwide as of September 2021. As of this date, PayPal was the market leader with a market share of approximately 50.32 percent.
The coronavirus pandemic had a huge impact on the global air passenger traffic. Due to travel restrictions around the world, just under three trillion revenue-passenger kilometers (RPKs) were reported in 2020.
In August 2021, both Google and Microsoft pledged to increase cybersecurity spending in the following five years. After a meeting with business leaders from different sectors at the White House with U.S. President Joe Biden, the companies committed to address the urgency of more cybersecurity.
Areas of investment
Areas of investment include training cybersecurity professionals and filling cybersecurity jobs. This also encompasses rolling out new cybersecurity and IT support learning programs, for example through Google ‘s Career Certificate program. In addition, the development of new industry standards and more advanced technologies and tools are being considered to help prevent cyber security incidents in the future. This may include the security improvement of technology supply chains as well as more frequent adoption of multifactor authentication.
Surging cyberattacks on companies and governmental bodies
In 2020, malicious actors utilized a ransomware attack to shut down one of the largest U.S. gasoline pipelines. Notably, this incident followed another attack targeted at the Washington, D.C., police department. The high-stakes nature of these targets, and the apparent ability of nefarious actors to shut down infrastructure and threaten public safety, emphasizes the need for not only companies but also government entities to invest in cybersecurity. For this reason, Microsoft pledged to invest 150 million U.S. dollars specifically to help government agencies improve security systems.
In 2020, the popular social video platform YouTube counted roughly 20 million paying users subscribing to its premium services. By the end of 2024, this number is forecasted to increase by almost eight million users, reaching 27.9 million paying subscribers. YouTube premium plans allow users to have an ads-free experience, as well as video and music downloads.
As of September 17, 2021, 25 percent of voters in Germany intended to vote for the social democratic SPD party in the upcoming federal election, set to take place on September 26, 2021, with a further 22 percent saying they will vote for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. The CDU have won the highest share of the vote in the previous four elections under the leadership of Angela Merkel, but will head into the 2021 election under the leadership of a new leader, Armin Laschet this time. Throughout most of this period, the CDU have been the most popular party in Germany, with the Green (die Grünen) party overtaking them briefly in early 2021.
Laschet losing ground
Although he inherited a relatively healthy polling position from Angela Merkel in January 2021, Laschet's time as CDU leader has proved challenging. A stalling vaccine rollout amidst rising Coronavirus cases at the start of 2021 damaged the reputation for competence the CDU had built through its pandemic response in 2020. There was also an additional leadership challenge from Markus Söder the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party (the CSU), which laid bare some of the divisions within the CDU camp. Although Laschet saw off this leadership challenge, by May, the Green party had started to lead in the polls. During the Summer of 2021, the CDU managed to regain their lead in the polls, although Laschets favorability rating was starting to decline. Between June and September 2021, the share of voters who preferred Laschet as Chancellor fell from 34 percent to 18 percent, while the SPD leader Olaf Scholz saw the share of voters who preferred him for Chancellor rise from 26 to 53 percent.
The most important issues
According to the most recent survey on what Germans found to be the most important issues facing the country, the environment was selected by 38 percent of voters as an important issue. Throughout 2020 and most of 2021, the Coronavirus pandemic was seen as the biggest problem facing Germany, although even during this time the environment has consistently been seen as an issue for German voters. Although they may not win the election, the Green party and their leader Annalena Baerbock, could enter government as a coalition partner to the SPD or CDU, and are likely to request a greater commitment to environmental issues from the next Chancellor in return for their support.
In 2019, the market size in China's AI medical software services totaled over two billion yuan, of which the clinical decision support systems (CDSS) held the largest share. In that year, the overall market size of AI medical software service industry scaled up by roughly 94 percent and was estimated to reach almost 7.2 billion yuan by 2022.
The English Premier League (EPL) is widely regarded as one of the most exciting and popular soccer leagues in the world. During the 2020/21 season, the Premier League average 414 thousand viewers on the NBC Sports networks, down 10 percent of the previous season's figure.
The proposed EastMed natural gas pipeline has the highest estimated costs of any gas pipeline in the European Union. Based on its length, the pipeline, which would see gas reservoirs in Israel and Cyprus connected to Greece, comes with estimated costs of 7.3 billion euros for the two EU countries involved. By comparison, Nord Stream 2 is the most costly gas pipeline currently under construction.
The cost of rent for office space in London is the highest in Europe. In the second quarter of 2021, the West End had average rents per square foot of 112.5 British pounds. The average annual rent in London for prime office space was substantially higher than in any other European market.
Prime yields
For commercial real estate investors, prime yields in London averaged at between four and 4.5 percent at the end of 2019. As of compared to the rest of the United Kingdom, yields for prime office space in London was up to two percent lower.
Commercial investments
Office real estate, which comes under the broader term of commercial real estate, accounted for over 40 percent of commercial investments in Western Europe during 2020. Between 2015 and 2018, the United Kingdom was the second leading country in Europe in terms of commercial investment after Germany.
As of January 1, 2021, 109.3 million inhabitants lived in Russian cities, opposed to 36.9 million people living in the countryside. The rural population of Russia saw a gradual decrease over the observed time period.
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