Patrick Spence, Sonos CEO, said on CNBC Thursday that the company is tracking three mundane trends that he expects will keep post-coronavirus pandemic growth momentum. “The first is the golden age of audio. We’re in,” he said in a Mad Money interview with Jim Cramer. Music streaming has become the norm thanks to the services…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated masking guidelines mark a significant shift in the pandemic, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health said Thursday. “Basically, it is recognized that vaccinated people will go back to normal and be able to do most of the things we did before the pandemic, and…

Maddy Yoo, 12, will be vaccinated with Pfizer’s vaccine on May 11, 2021 at the Dekalb Pediatric Center in Decatur, Georgia. Christopher Aluka Berry | Reuters The number of U.S. coronavirus cases continued to decline on Wednesday. The national average was 36,700 a day for the past week, data from Johns Hopkins University shows. This…

Fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a face mask or stay within half a meter of others in most environments, whether outdoors or indoors, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the matter told NBC News. There are a handful of cases where people still have to wear masks – in healthcare,…

United Airlines aircraft, including a Boeing 737 MAX 9 model, are pictured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas on March 18, 2019. Loren Elliott | Reuters Boeing shares rose nearly 3% Thursday morning after U.S. airlines repaired dozen of 737 Max planes last month that were on the ground due to an electrical…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two US Senators wrote a letter on Thursday calling on the Federal Trade Commission to do more to protect American consumers from travel fraud. In response to reports that travel and tourism-related fraud has increased – for example, scammers posing as travel advisors or creating…

The Arsenal players in a group before the Premier League match between Chelsea and Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on May 12, 2021 in London, England. David Price | Arsenal FC | Getty Images The Premier League has received general approval for a three-year extension of its TV rights agreement with UK broadcast partners, including Sky…

A woman with an umbrella walks in a street in the capital Victoria of the Seychelles. Valery Sharifulin | TASS | Getty Images Seychelles worries world health experts after a surge in Covid-19 cases in fully vaccinated people. The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that it would review coronavirus data from the Seychelles, an archipelago…

Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China – Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped from the entire cryptocurrency market after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the electric vehicle maker would stop buying cars with bitcoin. According to Coinmarketcap.com, the value of the entire cryptocurrency market was around $ 2.43 trillion at…

The world is facing a huge shortage of Covid-19 vaccines, and surrendering intellectual property rights is not going to solve the “most immediate problem”, says the global CEO of an Indian pharmaceutical company. “I’m not sure if an IP waiver at this point is something that … can solve an immediate problem,” said Umang Vohra…