Day: April 25, 2020

Launch Your Home Business With a .store Domain

wayne April 25, 2020

There’s an easier way to make your web business stand out.


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In 2020, it’s no secret that practically anyone can launch a digital storefront from the comfort of their own home. 

Unfortunately, this also means that the web is positively inundated with digital storefronts and marketplaces, making it that much harder for you to get your business in front of your customers.

Don’t get discouraged, though. Launching a thriving online business is still very much in the cards — you just need to give your operation a bit of an edge.

One of the simplest and most effective things you can do is make sure your business has a domain name that builds credibility and makes it easy for your customers to find you.

With a .store domain extension, it’s possible and easy to find a powerful domain name that fits the bill. Here’s what a .store domain name can do for you: 

  • Find your perfect domain
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Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters

wayne April 25, 2020

View of the popular shopping streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 25, 2020, completely empty due to the closure decreed by the Government due to the pandemic of Coronavirus Covid-19. The region normally concentrates tens of thousands of consumers daily.

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Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America’s largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world’s pandemic hot spots.

Medical officials in Rio de Janeiro and at least four other major cities have warned that their hospital systems are on the verge of collapse, or already too overwhelmed to take any more patients.

Health experts expect the number of infections in the country of 211 million people will be much higher than what has been reported because of insufficient, delayed testing.

Meanwhile, President Jair Bolsonaro has shown no sign of wavering from his insistence that COVID-19 is a relatively minor disease and that broad social-distancing measures are not needed to stop it. He has said only Brazilians at high risk should be isolated.

In Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon, officials said a cemetery has been forced to dig

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There may be 22 hidden coronavirus hotspots in states poised to lift restrictions

wayne April 25, 2020

Emerging coronavirus hotspots likely already exist undiscovered in the eight U.S. states planning to ease social distancing restrictions, a new analysis reveals.

The study discovers that in the eight states planning to ease social distancing measures in the coming weeks, almost two dozen small cities and rural counties have infection rates poised to skyrocket, despite their currently not having large numbers of confirmed cases.

The analysis, by technology firm Dataminr, uses artificial intelligence to scrutinize social media posts on platforms such as Twitter and Reddit. The company also looks at 10,000 public data sources in more than 100 languages. Its technology is used by both governments and companies, including many hedge funds, to predict emerging events. It is also used by the World Health Organization and the United Nations.

The company’s warning about previously unknown hotspots comes on the day that Georgia became the first U.S. state to ease measures imposed to stop the spread of outbreaks.

The state has allowed gyms, tattoo parlors, hair and nail salons, massage therapists, and other businesses to reopen after less than a month of closures. It is allowing in-person religious services to restart this weekend and will allow restaurants and theaters to …