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So Germany, Austria, Sweden, it's about 20% of the population who are foreign born in 2021. Canada 23%, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria closer to 30%. Singapore over 40%. The highest is the UAE, United Arab Emirates, where close to 90% of its population were born outside of their country. Oscar Orozco:. Wow. 14%. I would've thought [inaudible 00:42:20] number would be much higher. Marcus Johnson:.
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| Nov 17, 2023
By the end of 2022, Canada will pass Australia and Norway to claim the third-highest penetration rate among internet users, behind only the US and Sweden. Of the countries that already have high rates of podcast adoption, none will grow listenership as quickly as Canada over the next two years.
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The Nordic countries—especially Sweden, home of Spotify—have also shown a greater interest in podcasts than Germany, France, Italy, and other countries with a lower proportion of English speakers. We no longer break out these countries individually, but previous data suggests many would be at the top of the Western Europe rankings.
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| Nov 8, 2022
This is especially true for adults in Sweden (71%), UK (68%), Germany (67%), and Japan (66%). China and the US were tied with 45% of adults skipping screenings. Getting sick was the most compelling reason to see a doctor for consumers in the UK (78%), Sweden (75%), and Germany (69%). Half (50%) of adults in China and Japan only saw a doctor when they were sick, compared with 44% in the US.
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| Feb 9, 2023
The data: While the number of fines enforced by regulators remained the same year over year, the size of the fines spiked—and Sweden and Australia led the way. Regulators issued 45 fines this year, but the total cost increased fivefold. Australian and Swedish regulators imposed $917.2 million and $559.3 million in fines, respectively.
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| Dec 15, 2021
The industrywide trend: Target’s private label return policy stands in sharp contrast to broader trends in which retailers ranging from Sweden-based Bootz to Amazon have taken steps to reduce their return rates. Sweden-based online fashion retailer Bootz blocked roughly 42,000 customers from its site for returning too many items, per AP.
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| May 25, 2023
Trade and Technology Council gathering, which took place in Sweden, showed that the US lacked a unified stance on what the EU's proposed rules were. So, it's still a little scrambled, although definitely there's pressure to show some signs of regulation, or at least that they're heading towards that direction. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah.
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| Aug 21, 2023
It also benefited from the Wolt acquisition, which enabled it to expand to new markets such as Germany, Sweden, and Israel. While Uber relied on Eats to deliver growth during the early days of the pandemic, the company’s mobility segment surpassed Eats revenues for the past five quarters.
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| May 4, 2023
And more recently, Swedish telehealth startup Kry raised $312 million to help it expand its global footprint beyond the European market it operates in (Sweden, Norway, Germany, the UK, and France).
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| Nov 19, 2021
Ended some of its international content productions, ceasing to make HBO Max originals in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Central Europe, the Netherlands, and Turkey. These moves are aimed at cutting costs for a company laden with debt. “HBO Max. It’s not TV. It’s a series of tax write-offs to appease Wall Street,” said comedian John Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.”.
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| Sep 27, 2022
Sweden-based Tink partnered with PostNord Strålfors, a Nordic invoice distributor, per a press release. The tie-up will add open banking payments to PostNord Strålfors’ omnichannel offering, giving customers more payment options and a more streamlined invoice process. It gives Tink an opportunity to expand its payment volume: PostNord Strålfors says it handles “hundreds of million invoices annually.”.
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| Mar 16, 2022
The company, which is dually based in the US and Sweden, will use its proceeds to open a Miami office and hire more employees. The Series A round comes after Majority landed $19 million in seed funding in June 2021. More on this: The neobank targets its outreach to different immigrant communities:. It started with outreach to Nigerians in Texas and Cubans in Florida.
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| Dec 8, 2021
The news: Klarna introduced its price comparison tool in the UK, Sweden, and Denmark after launching the service in the US last month, per a press release. Here’s how it works: The search engine lets Klarna app users find products and compare prices across thousands of retailers.
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| Nov 15, 2022
Klarna already offers cards in the UK, Germany, and Sweden. The physical Klarna card lets customers pay for purchases in four interest-free installments online or in-store.
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| Jun 2, 2022
Sweden-based B2B payments provider Qred raised €10 million ($11.4 million) and unveiled a virtual card in partnership with Visa that will offer eligible SMBs up to 45 days of interest-free credit to extend invoice payments. The card will also enable supplier payments to businesses that don’t typically accept cards.
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| Apr 6, 2022
By the numbers: Sweden-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Klarna reported a 42% year-over-year (YoY) increase in gross merchandise volume (GMV) for 2021. GMV growth decelerated slightly from 2020’s 46% YoY increase. Klarna’s active consumer base hit 147 million in 2021, up from 87 million the year before.
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| Mar 1, 2022
This approach, taken by other markets like the UK and Sweden, is favored by most sellers and seems the most likely outcome given the formation of a US JIC in January 2023. The JIC and its recent activity will be discussed in greater detail later in this report.
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| Apr 19, 2023
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During Q2 2022, 14,114 adults ages 18+ in 13 countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US) were surveyed by Nepa. The research is conducted quarterly and always includes a minimum of 1,000 respondents in each country.
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| Sep 12, 2022
No other country comes close to matching this figure (Sweden, home of Spotify, will be in second place with 34.6%). The US will also have the most monthly podcast listeners, at 117.8 million—over 40 million more than our aggregate figure for Europe. China will be in second place, with 85.6 million listeners.
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| Oct 29, 2021
The news: A Sweden-based price-comparison website, PriceRunner, is suing Google for $2.4 billion after the EU high court ruled that Google breached antitrust laws.
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| Feb 8, 2022
The decision to double down on nuclear energy is poised to lower energy prices and carbon emissions and reduce the need for energy imports from Norway, Sweden, and Russia. Other countries are divided on nuclear energy. France joins Finland in building more reactors, Germany shuts down its plants, and Italy’s government is split on the issue.
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| Apr 14, 2022