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,…
After a stable third quarter, it was on schedule to achieve cost savings from the integration of data platform Refinitiv, the London Stock Exchange Group said but cautioned that the timing of its technological expenditure could be affected by supply chain bottlenecks. In the three months to the end of September, its pro forma underlying…
A definitive definition for blue hydrogen should be agreed upon at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow so that its producers are allowed to sell it, demanded the CEO of gas infrastructure company Snam on Saturday. “At COP26 we need to define what blue hydrogen means, because if you have blue hydrogen with little CO2…
Following a call by Barclays to Walt Disney to bring in bold changes in the media giant to pose a turnaround for the slowing growth of the company’s Disney+ streaming service, the stocks of the company saw a rare downgrading at the Wall Street. Hints of a slowdown in Disney+ were mentioned last month by…
Strong measures are being taken against Australian airline Qantas as a part of a row over the duties of plane cleaners which happened in early 2020. The airlines ordered a cleaner to stop working following the employee’s opposition of the cleaning practices on aircraft that were arriving from China. Qantas was accused by the watchdog…
On Tuesday, the first bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund will make its official debut. ProShares’ much-anticipated ETF, which will track the bitcoin futures market, will begin trading on the NYSE on Tuesday under the ticker ‘BITO,’ according to the company. “We believe a multitude of investors have been eagerly awaiting the launch of a bitcoin-linked ETF after…
With the growth of global electric vehicle (EV) industry, auto makers are now rushing to build facilities to allow them to make the powerful batteries required to power EVs. One of the latest in that race is partnership between Stellantis, a new entity that came into being last year by the merger of Fiat Chrysler…
More than 10,000 people are likely to be hired by social media giant Facebook in the European Union for the purpose of developing a so-called metaverse. A metaverse is described as an online world where users are able to play games, work and communicate with each other in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets.…
Claiming that complying with the Chinese government has become increasingly difficult, Microsoft has decided to shut down its LinkedIn social network services in China. This decision was taken after some journalists’ profiles were blocked from the career-networking site which was severely criticised InJobs, a jobs-only version of the site, bill ne launched by Linked later…
The banking group UBS AG was sanctioned this week by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CGTC) a fine of $500,000 over charges that the bank had not been able to keep in its custody some specific audio recordings till such time that it was required to according to regulations, the agency said. “The…
Tens of thousands of legal claims that alleged that Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder and other talc-based products were responsible for causing cancer were put in bankruptcy by the company, with the potential liabilities being transferred to a subsidiary that has been recently formed by it. According to the company and court records, J&J put…
