In a significant development U.S.-headquartered digital currency exchange CrossTower has set up a local unit in India and has launched a trading platform to increase its traction in the burgeoning domestic crypto market. The development comes at a time when the fate of cryptocurrency is still unclear in India. CrossTower India has hired 35 people…
On Monday, Oliver Blume, the CEO of luxury sports car maker Porsche AG said, the carmaker is attracting huge demand for its all-electric coupe Taycan model, causing wait times to stretch to up to six months. “Our original production capacity for the Taycan was 20,000 units this year – we’ve sold that many in the…
On Friday, China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp said, it will invest $8.87 billion to build a chip plant in Shanghai. The development underscores Beijing’s efforts to boost its independence in the chip manufacturing sector. The development comes at a time when global chipmakers are struggling to fulfill orders from the electronics and automotive industries triggering new…
In a statement the CEO of global cryptocurrency exchange Binance said, its U.S. arm could potentially see an initial public offering in the next three years. “Binance.US is just going to do what Coinbase did,” said Zhao. He went on to add, Binance.US is set to close on a large private funding round in the…
On Wednesday, in a statement Royal Dutch Shell announced its plans to significantly expand its network of electric vehicle charging points in Britain. Shell plans on installing 50,000 on-street charging stations by 2025; it plans on implementing its plan through ubitricity, an on-street charging point company that it acquired earlier this year in February. Incidentally,…
The co-president of Xpeng AeroHT, an affiliate of Xpeng, said in an interview on Friday that the company hopes to deliver its flying automobile to consumers in 2026. The Land Aircraft Carrier, a large truck with an electric two-seater passenger drone inside, was unveiled by Xpeng AeroHT last year. After the flying vehicle and truck…
In a new move to defend domestic producers, the European Union opened an inquiry into Chinese flat-rolled iron and steel products that have been plated or coated with tin. It has also started a number of investigations to find out if Chinese clean tech businesses are unjustly benefiting from subsidies while doing business inside the…
China released statistics on Friday that suggested stronger industrial activity but weaker consumer growth. April retail sales up 2.3% over the same month last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That was less than the 3.1% rate recorded in March and less than the 3.8% gain predicted by a Reuters poll. April’s industrial…
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority had earlier sought opinions on whether Microsoft’s AI relationship with Mistral qualified as a merger before finding no regulatory objections to the partnership. The transaction “does not qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002,” the CMA stated in a brief statement on Friday. Microsoft…
Microsoft has allegedly encouraged China-based cloud computing and artificial intelligence operations personnel to consider migrating out of the country, as Washington pushes down on Beijing’s access to the advanced technology. The Wall Street Journal published the story on Thursday, citing unidentified sources to claim that the employees, who were primarily Chinese engineers, had been given…
China’s Baidu exceeded analysts’ forecasts for first-quarter revenue on Thursday, thanks to increased demand for its AI-powered cloud solutions and a rebound in ad sales. The business, which operates the biggest search engine in China, reported revenue for the three months ended March 31 of 31.51 billion yuan ($4.37 billion), which was higher than the…
Citing “a profound effect on American life,” a group of TikTok producers filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court on Tuesday, attempting to thwart a bill signed by President Joe Biden that would require the divestment of the 170 million-user app or outright prohibit it. A Texas Marine Corps veteran who sells ranch products, a…
According to private work by UN sanctions monitors reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday, North Korea laundered $147.5 million through virtual currency platform Tornado Cash in March after obtaining it from a cryptocurrency exchange last year. In a paper sent in on Friday, the monitors informed the sanctions committee of the U.N. Security Council that they…
At a hearing examining a video of a bishop being stabbed, an attorney for the cyber regulator stated that while Elon Musk’s X has rules to remove dangerous content when it so chooses, it shouldn’t be able to disregard Australian law in determining what may be watched there. An eSafety Commissioner decision to erase 65…
As development slows and pressures from overcapacity mount, European businesses in China are finding it more difficult to turn a profit, according to a poll issued on Friday by the EU Chamber of Commerce in China. According to chapter director Carlo D’Andrea, company members in Shanghai even complained payment delays since it was harder to…
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