Tag: pandemic
The long hangover after lockdown parties – Johnson is fighting for political survival
London Boris Johnson hasn’t been Prime Minister for almost a year, and yet the 58-year-old cast a spell over Great Britain again on Wednesday: Johnson had to cross-examine a parliamentary…
Almost $600,000 – in the USA, pilot salaries are increasing enormously
Cockpit crew in an Airbus A321 The major US airlines are increasing salaries by more than a third because of the pilot shortage. (Photo: imago/imagebroker) Frankfurt Pilots in the USA…
63% of Employees Who Left Their Jobs During the Pandemic Founded Their Own Company
According to a study by a US consultancy company, more than half of those who left their jobs during the pandemic period started their own companies and competed with their…
Lufthansa is coming out of the crisis faster than expected with a profit in the billions
Frankfurt The year 2022 was surprisingly good for Lufthansa, the current year should be even better. This shows the annual report of Europe’s largest airline group, which was published on…
Lufthansa is coming out of the crisis faster than expected with a profit in the billions
>>iOS Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) ended up at 1.5 billion euros. The management had raised its own forecast shortly before the end of the financial year, referring…
Laboratory accident or not? The origin of Corona remains a mystery
Geneva, Washington It happened at the end of 2019. At that time, infections with the new corona virus first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan. At least two laboratories…
Boss Stefan Paul wants to secure profits from the pandemic in the long term
Zurich Stefan Paul started to make the state of emergency normal. When the manager became head of the Swiss logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel in August 2022, high rates in…
Development aid needs fundamental reform
We have to face an uncomfortable truth – and we have to act. The impact of human activity on our planet poses a threat to livelihoods and threatens to destroy…
How Raisin CEO Georgadze graduated from high school at the age of twelve and built up one of the most successful German fintechs
Dusseldorf In the new episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt, Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Matthes speaks to Georgian-born Tamaz Georgadze, the founder of Raisin, the fintech that, despite the reluctance of many venture capitalists,…
Jens Spahn sells villa worth millions
Jens Spahn with husband Daniel Funke The total expenditure for the villa is said to have amounted to 5.5 million euros. (Photo: IMAGO/Future Image) Berlin The purchase of a luxury…
Shareholders will probably agree to the radical capital cut
Frankfurt The plan is radical: On Tuesday, the shareholders of the travel group Tui, which was hit by the pandemic, will meet. The most important item on the agenda of…
Comment – Germany has learned nothing from the corona pandemic
Karl Lauterbach The Federal Minister of Health recently blamed science for decisions in the corona pandemic. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Overall, Germany came through the pandemic well. The feared collapse of…
“In the distant future we will have to work less than today”
Dusseldorf This week, Handelsblatt Disrupt reports from the digital congress “Europe 2023” in Berlin. Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Matthes talks to Microsoft founder Bill Gates about the disruptive power of artificial intelligence…
Current Corona rules: Mask requirement, citizen tests and isolation
Mask at the train station Some federal states such as Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein had already abolished the obligation to wear masks in local public transport. (Photo: IMAGO/IPA Photo) Berlin…
Hundreds of Thousands of Hacker Job Postings Opened During the Pandemic Period
In a report by Kaspersky, it was observed that hundreds of thousands of job postings were opened on the DarkWeb between 2020-2022. In addition, there has been a large increase…
Former RKI boss Lothar Wieler goes to the Hasso Plattner Institute
Lothar Wieler The former RKI President will leave the institute. (Photo: IMAGO/Future Image) Berlin As President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler played a key role in shaping…
Former RKI boss Lothar Wieler goes to the Hasso Plattner Institute
Lothar Wieler The former RKI President will leave the institute. (Photo: IMAGO/Future Image) Berlin As President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler played a key role in shaping…
Norwegian budget airline Flyr is running out of money
Airline Flyer It was not possible to raise 30 million euros in fresh funds from investors. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) Oslo The Norwegian airline Flyr, which was founded in the middle of…
Ryanair also expects high profits in the coming years
Ryanair On average, flight tickets in 2022 were 48 percent more expensive than in the same period last year and thus cost 14 percent more than before the corona pandemic.…
Corona pandemic, war in Ukraine and energy crisis inhibit innovations
Digitized quality control of gear plates According to the study, these are difficult times for disruptive inventions, i.e. those that radically change existing structures and entire markets. (Photo: Elrnig Klinger)…