Maria Rivera

Maria is the youngest team member of Asap Land. She joined as an intern as she was having a diploma in journalism. But, now as she gained experience, she is working as full-time editor and contributor on Asap Land. She loves to write news bulletins from the business world as she is quite fascinated with business.

How much money BBVA has made with Coinbase since it invested in 2015

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The economic news in recent days is Coinbase IPO, maybe the exchange world’s most famous cryptocurrency exchange. Despite the falls since its inception, its market capitalization (what the company is worth) exceeds 60,000 million dollars, more than any Spanish bank, for example.

The funny thing is, when Coinbase was still a relatively small startup, BBVA invested in it. In an investment round in 2015, BBVA acquired between 2.5% and 5% of Coinbase, according to market sources, for between 10 and 20 million dollars. The data is not public as Coinbase was not a listed company at the time. How much money has BBVA made since then?

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‘Indiana Jones 5’ signs Mads Mikkelsen: the star of ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Another Round’ joins the archaeologist’s new adventure that will arrive in 2022

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I don’t know if the same thing is happening to you, but ‘Indiana Jones 5’ has gone from being a sequel that generated tremendous laziness to become a project to which I have more and more desire to take the glove; and a good part of it is to blame for recent additions to a cast that has just been joined by one of the biggest stars of the moment.

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What we know about the higher prevalence of thrombi in young women vaccinated with AstraZeneca and Janssen

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If the preliminary data seem to point, very slightly, to a higher prevalence of thrombi in women in general, and young women in particular, who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine, should we advise against getting this group of people vaccinated? Is it the same with other medications? Are women simply more prone to thrombi?

We are going to try to answer all these questions, while contextualizing the risks we face.

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You can now watch more than 160 movies for free online at Somos Cine, from RTVE: the Spanish platform improves catalog and quality

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A little over a year ago, in full confinement, RTVE presented the ‘We are cinema’ platform. Public television was talking at the time of a website where you can watch Spanish movies for free, promising to gradually expand the launch catalog, which It already had more than 60 Spanish films and some non-Spanish-speaking films, such as ‘La vida de Adele’.

A year later, and after having used the web several times throughout 2020, we have re-entered Somos Cine, and the platform has improved in (almost) every way in its web version. In applications for Smart TVs and devices such as the Amazon Fire TV Stick, which is where its contents can most comfortably be consumed by screen sizes and focus, it is a bit hidden and has less pampering. Let’s see what we have found after all this time.

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