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"Almost every industry will be 'Pelotonized' in the post-pandemic world,” wrote trend forecaster and lover of buzzwords Ion Valis in a blog post at the start of last year. “Just as the hot VC phrase of the past decade was 'Uber for X', I predict that post-pandemic it will be 'the Peloton of Y'.”You can see why Valis wanted to go all-in on the exercise startup. In September 2020, Peloton announced a 172% increase in sales from the year prior and more than 1m new signups for its streaming classes. The company, which sold its first bike on Kickstarter in 2013, became known as one of the small group of “winners” from the pandemic and, along with Netflix and Amazon, its share price rocketed. By the end of 2020 it was valued at $45bn.Over the last year, however, the enthusiasm for cycling ...

The Councilor for Fiestas, Francisco Javier Gutiérrez, and the president of Amigos de Badajoz, Manuel Cienfuegos, during the presentation of the Almossassa programme. / TodayThis year's novelties are the song contest dedicated to Ibn Marwan, in which three murgas will participate, and the incorporation of the Plaza de la Soledad to the venues for the celebrationThe Almossassa festival will return this Friday with the opening of the Arab market in the Plaza Alta at 11:00. This will be the starting signal for an edition, which recovers the festive part of the celebration of the founding of the city, and which this year incorporates two novelties: the Carnival song contest dedicated to Ibn Marwan and the incorporation of the Plaza de Soledad to the celebration stages. The epicenter of t...

The Ciudadanos spokesperson, David Salazar, in the meeting with the first vice-president of the Board, Pilar Blanco-Morales. / jm rosemaryThe round of meetings begins to reach an agreement on the 2023 regional budgetsCitizens ask for a tax reduction to alleviate the expenses of Extremaduran families at the beginning of the negotiation of the Autonomous Budgets for 2023, as well as universal free textbooks and school canteens. For its part, the regional government insists that there are no red lines from the outset and that its objective is to have an agreement with all the parties with parliamentary representation. The regional executive today began the round of contacts with the parliamentary groups and social agents to try to agree on the accounts for next year, as stated by the Pre...

ORKraine's recent stunning success in liberating a huge swathe of its territory from Russian occupation directly contradicted months of consensus opinion by commentators and experts who predicted that the war had settled into an indefinite stalemate. Public perception of the conflict, as well as important policy decisions, are swayed by such assumptions. At this stage we must ask: why do experts keep overestimating Russian strength and underestimating Ukraine's military capabilities, and how can they avoid doing so again?One obvious point is that western states have gradually increased supplies of powerful and sophisticated weapons, and Ukraine's forces have convincingly demonstrated they can use them to powerful effect on the battlefield. But this is only part of the story.By focusi...

Ramón Jiménez, CEO of Extremadura New Energies, in the foreground, at the presentation of his training academy. / GEORGE KINGThe exploitation of lithium plans to hire 450 employees with degrees from Vocational Training to EngineeringThe company that promotes the Valdeflores mine offers 30 online courses to train future workers at the factory where lithium is processed. Under the name of Extremadura New Energies Academy, it intends to model the different professional profiles that it will need for its exploitation, if it is finally carried out. This Monday this initiative was announced at the Faculty of Business in Cáceres, which began today with the course 'Basic concepts of battery storage', to which more than 85 people have signed up, who will be trained in approximately three week...

todayThe Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto, affirms that the documentation presented by Envision is being evaluatedThe Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, has assured that the Government will publish "in early October" the final resolutions in relation to the projects presented to receive the aid linked to the Perte of the electric and connected vehicle (VEC). Within the framework of an informative breakfast, Maroto affirmed that the Executive is evaluating the allegations presented by the three companies (of the 13 that attended the call) whose projects were left out of the initial distribution of Perte VEC funds as they were led by Stellantis (for Madrid and Galicia), Rieju and Envision. The Extremaduran project is Venergy+, the lithium battery gigafactory promo...