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4y ago
Healthcare organizations will gain visibility into their known and unknown digital footprint assessed against thousands of cybersecurity checks
Ormond Beach, Florida and Salt Lake City, Utah – April 8, 2020 – To aid healthcare organizations in protecting their environments during the COVID-19 crisis, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) announced today, in partnership with RiskRecon, a Mastercard company, H-ISAC members and all healthcare organizations worldwide can receive free cybersecurity rating assessments through December 31, 2020.
“In times when delivering patien ..read more
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4y ago
Reaffirms Commitment to Small Business Owners and Their Employees By Committing Funds, Along With Cyber Security and Local Market Intelligence Solutions at No Cost
PURCHASE, NY – April 7, 2020 – Our local main streets have been amongst the hardest hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. To help address this challenge, Mastercard today announced a commitment of $250 million over five years to support small businesses in the United States and other markets where we operate. The announcement came during the virtual America CARES Small Business Relief event hosted at the White House on Tuesday afternoon ..read more
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4y ago
تم تقديم المنح المالية إلى باحثين في ثلاث مؤسسات في الولايات المتحدة والمملكة المتحدة لتمويل دراسات حول أدوية لأمراض سابقة وأجسام مضادة جديدة لمحاربة فيروس كوفيد-19
بارتشيس، نيويورك، 31 مارس 2020 – أعلن الشركاء المؤسسون لبرنامج مسرّع علاجات كوفيد-19 (COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator) اليوم عن تقديم منح مالية بقيمة 20 مليون دولار لثلاث مؤسسات بحثية هي جامعة واشنطن، وجامعة أكسفورد، ومعهد لا جولا للمناعة، لتمويل تجارب طبية من أجل التوصل إلى علاجات مناعية فعالة ضد فيروس كوفيد-19. وتمثل هذه المنح أول استثمار لبرنامج مسرّع علاجات كوفيد-19 ..read more
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4y ago
Researchers at three institutions in the U.S. and U.K. receive grants to advance studies of repurposed drugs and novel antibodies in preventing COVID-19
Purchase, N.Y., April 1, 2020: The partners in the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator announced grants of $20 million to three institutions—the University of Washington, University of Oxford, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology—to fund clinical trials in order to identify highly potent immunotherapies for the COVID-19 pandemic. These grants mark the first investments to come from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a large-scale initiative ..read more
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4y ago
This initiative comes in the wake of COVID-19 as health officials recommend social distancing and merchants encourage consumers to pay with contactless for a safer way to pay.
TORONTO, April 2, 2020 – Mastercard today announced it is enabling the increase of contactless payment limits across Canada, as people look for safer ways to pay in the wake of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The move follows similar announcements made by Mastercard recently to champion contactless limit raises around the world, as health officials recommend social distancing and a growing number of merchants encour ..read more
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4y ago
Meet Moshrefa Banu, a 25-year-old quality inspector in the sewing section of a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is married and has a young daughter who stays with Moshrefa’s parents in her home village while she works in the city. Moshrefa dreams of one day providing her family with a home of their own. Clouding her dreams are the everyday worries of balancing saving and spending — especially when she doesn’t have a secure place to save her money.
Moshrefa is among the more than 40 million workers employed in the garment industry in Asia. Women compose the vast majority of front-lin ..read more
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4y ago
Mastercard Provides Free Online STEM Lessons to Children, Teachers and Parents
Purchase, NY – March 30, 2020 – Today, Mastercard extended access to its signature STEM curriculum, Girls4Tech™, through a suite of new online, creative educational resources. The program has been designed to help parents and teachers engage and inspire kids, ages 8-12.
Through the newly launched website Girls4Tech Connect, as well as through activities made in collaboration with our education partner Scholastic, teachers and parents can download lessons to help students learn about STEM topics, from the comfort of ..read more
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4y ago
Researchers at three institutions in the U.S. and U.K. receive grants to advance studies of repurposed drugs and novel antibodies in preventing COVID-19
PURCHASE, NY – March 30, 2020 – Today, the partners in the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator announced grants of $20 million to three institutions—the University of Washington, University of Oxford, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology—to fund clinical trials in order to identify highly potent immunotherapies for the COVID-19 pandemic. These grants mark the first investments to come from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a large-scale in ..read more
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4y ago
To the Mastercard Community–
COVID-19 has become part of our new reality. At best, we are faced with the new challenges of social isolation and figuring out how to use digital connections to stay close with our family, friends and colleagues and to help our children continue to learn. At worst, we are battling the virus directly, as well as the myriad complications that come with it. No matter where you are and what you are facing, know that our hearts go out to you.
Even when the world is enjoying general health and prosperity, there is a need to tap into our basic human decency as we approac ..read more
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4y ago
By Bunita Sawhney
Women control upwards of 80% of household buying decisions, yet too much of our world was designed without their needs in mind, and without them involved. This results in missed opportunities that hold us all back.
The solution is clear: having women—and their perspectives—firmly represented in product development leads to better products for women, for everyone.
Women entrepreneurs and their ingenuity are central to this. They contribute over $3 trillion to today’s economy and open businesses at double the rate of men, yet only 3 percent of global venture dollars are investe ..read more