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,…
With used-car reseller Carvana Co forecasting second-quarter adjusted earnings above Wall Street estimates as a result of cost-cutting initiatives, shares of the firm closed up 56.0% on Thursday, with some assistance from traders covering their bearish bets. Carvana shares reached a more than eight-month high during the session, rising as much as 68% to $26.09.…
Ad buyers told Reuters that Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft are injecting advertising into AI tests without giving users the chance to opt out of participation, a move that has already infuriated several brands and runs the danger of drawing further criticism from the industry. The two digital behemoths are competing to upgrade their search engines…
ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, has been charged with enabling members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) access to the information of Hong Kong human rights activists and demonstrators. Former ByteDance executive Yintao Yu claims in a US court filing that users who submitted “protest-related content” were also recognised and monitored. According to Yu,…
Due to debts owed by their parent firm, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers, as well as The Spectator magazine, will soon be placed up for sale. The Barclay family, who formerly owned the company, have been replaced by receivers Alix Partners. The receiver stated that it does not anticipate the modifications to have an…
The latest setback for the widebody plane, Boeing warned on Tuesday that it would have to slow down the delivery of the 787 Dreamliner after finding a new production defect that will cause it to inspect all 90 of the aircraft in its stock. Although the recently discovered production snag does not endanger flight safety,…
Inditex, the company that owns Zara, reported on Wednesday that sales of the spring/summer collection accelerated to increase 16% in May as the retailer offsets increasing labour expenses and retains customers amid a crisis in the cost of living. The largest fast-fashion retailer in the world announced a better-than-anticipated 54% increase in net profit of…
Sergio Ermotti, chief executive officer of UBS, cautioned on Friday of difficult decisions regarding layoffs following the acquisition of Credit Suisse, which he said he hoped would be finalised in the coming days. “We won’t be able to create, short term, job opportunities for everybody. Synergies is part of the story,” Ermotti said at an…
One day after the creator of the software reported that a security issue had been detected, U.S. security researchers claimed that hackers had stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the well-known file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer. After revealing the flaw on Wednesday, software developer Progress Software Corp warned that it…
The privacy authority in Japan said on Friday that it had cautioned OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed business that created the ChatGPT chatbot, not to gather private information without people’s consent. The Personal Information Protection Commission stated in a statement that OpenAI should limit the sensitive data it gathers for machine learning, adding that it may take…
Boeing Co. CEO Dave Calhoun brushed down rumours that the duopoly now maintained by the American aircraft manufacturer and its European rival Airbus SE may expire after China’s first commercial flight of its homegrown C919 narrowbody jet. A C919 carrying passengers from Shanghai to Beijing on Sunday by China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS marked a significant…
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