On Monday, China finance ministry stated, it plans on rolling new policies to support hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in order to boost the industry’s supply chain and related technologies. China has emerged as the world’s biggest market for new energy vehicles (NEVs), which includes plug-in hybrids, battery electric vehicles as well as and hydrogen fuel…
According to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, regardless of how China’s ByteDance positions the divestment of its short video sharing app TikTok, U.S. President Donald Trump does not want it to have a controlling stake in TikTok, since it will place Americans’ personal information at risk. Despite China’s bravado…
On Friday, in a statement Apple Inc said, it will launch its first online store in India on September 23; the date of the launch assumes significance and is strategic since it coincides with India’s festive season which routinely rakes in some of the biggest sales for retailers every year. Currently, Apple sells its products…
Chinese consumers are rushing to purchase Huawei’s smartphone featuring its high-end Kirin chips, fearing that the company’s production of its premium handsets will face punitive curbs by U.S. trade action. According to Huaqiangbei, smartphone vendors in China’s southern city of Shenzhen, are seeing a steady rise in the prices of used and new Huawei phones…
According to a research report commissioned by Kaspersky, two thirds of those who were surveyed in leading Western European countries consider technology induced augmentation of human body parts, most of which are related to improving health, will improve their lives. With technological revolutions shaping humanities near future, tech leaders opine it will change every aspect…
An open letter signed members of parliament of the United Kingdom, academics and children’s-rights advocates have urged tech firms to stop advertising to its users who are under the age of 18 years. The letter says that it is not only n individual’s privacy that is undermined by behavioural advertising but it also pits “susceptible”…
Google’s YouTube is here with its own version of the popular video sharing app TikTok. The launch of Shorts, its new short-form video feature, was announced by the Google-owned company earlier this week. The first place where YouTube intends to launch the early beta version of the product is India where the government had banned…
He had heard that Oracle Corp was very close to a deal over ByteDance’s TikTok, said United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday even as reports quoted sources that the Chinese owner of TikTok was seeking to hold on to a majority stake in the US business of its popular short video sharing app. …
An upsurge in its number of users during the novel coronavirous pandemic for its Switch Online subscription service was reported by Japan’s gaming company Nintendo on Wednesday. The company said that the surge in demand for its services was led by hit titles such as Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This has helped the company to…
In a strategic move, Apple Inc has rolled out a new virtual fitness service as well as a bundle of all its subscriptions, Apple One. The holiday-season launch of its services, the backbone of its growth engine, caters to customers working at home in the COVID-19 induced pandemic. Apple has also launched the Apple Watch…
The times when people looked at vinyl records as a thing from the past that carried nostalgic memories seem to have gone now. Fort the first time since the 1980s, the sales of vinyl records has over taken the sale of CDs in the United States so far this year. In the first half of…
A settlement amount of $1.5bn has been agreed to be paid by German automaker Daimler AG and its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA to the United States government and California state regulators towards settling of charges against it to cheating emission tests. Charges of violating environmental laws through the use of the so-called “defeat device software” to…
On Tuesday, in a statement Uber said, it plans on winning back its license to operate in the city of London. The move comes in the wake of Britain’s transport regulator banning Uber from operating in the city over safety concerns. In 2019, Transport for London (TfL) had refused to grant Uber a new license…
On Tuesday, in a statement, China’s social media and gaming group Tencent said, it plans on opening a new office in Singapore which will be its regional hub for Southeast Asia. “The new office is a strategic addition to our current offices in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand,” said the company in a statement.
On Monday, in a statement Amazon.com Inc said, it is ramping up its recruitment drive and will be hiring 100,000 more workers – its fourth hiring spree, to keep pace with surging e-commerce demand. The hiring positions will be full time and part time and will be based in its home country as well as…
