In a statement Microsoft Corp said, it would acquire artificial intelligence and speech technology firm Nuance Communications Inc for around $16 billion. The development sees Microsoft’s expands in the cloud solutions for healthcare customers. The deal comes in the wake of a 2019 partnership wherein both companies had partnered to automate clinical administrative work including…
In a statement California’s Department of Motor Vehicles said autonomous driving startup WeRide has received a permit to test two passenger vehicles on California’s public roads without a safety driver. Nissan and Mitsubishi,backed WeRide, is also testing its driverless vehicle in China’s southern city of Guangzhou. Technology and automakers are investing billions of dollars in…
In a massive breakthrough, Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink released video footage showing a monkey playing a simple videogame after getting implants of the new technology. The 3-minute video shows Pager, a male macaque with embedded chips on each side of its brain, playing ‘Mind Pong’ and controlling the paddle by simply thinking about moving…
In a statement General Motors Co’s President Mark Reuss said, the company is testing a variety of battery chemistry technologies and manufacturing processes aimed at slashing the cost of future electric vehicle batteries and reducing its dependence on such price-sensitive metals including cobalt. While speaking at an investor conference, Reuss said “GM is experimenting with…
In a report a South Korean newspaper said, SK Hynix Inc, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, is close to signing a long-term deal to provide automotive memory chips to German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH. Both companies are negotiating for a 10 year or more auto memory chip supply chain, reported South Korea’s Maeil…
Its consumer banking operations in 13 markets in Asia, Europe and the Middle East will be closed down by Citigroup, the company has said. Instead of having separate operations in these identified markets, its four hubs in Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and London will be used to run these operations, said the…
The largest social media company of the world Facebook has announced that it has achieved net zero emissions which now pits the company to achieve its wider target of net zero emissions by 20203 for its entire supply chain. Over the past three years, it has managed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 94…
After getting listed on Nasdaq through a SPAC merger worth $40 million earlier in the week, the ride-hailing to delivery giant of Southeast Asia – Grab Holdings, is reported to be considering a secondary listing in its home market of Singapore, said a report published by the news agency Reuters quoting information from sources with…
The most dominant ride hailing and food delivery company of South East Asia, Grab, is getting ready to get publicly listed in the United States in a deal which set the value of the company at almost $40bn. The company expects that the listing will allow it to raise as much as $4bn and it…
The challenges that are faced by the big banks in the current phase of pandemic were laid bare by the first quarter results of JPMorgan Chase & Co. The issue for the big banks is that the stimulus programs have helped individuals and businesses to achieve good financial shape but they have enough cash at…
On Tuesday, in a significant development Southeast Asia’s biggest ride hailing and food delivery startup Grab Holdings Inc confirmed a merger with Altimeter Capital-backed publicly-listed shell company backed, marking the biggest ever deal with a blank check firm.
Those activists who had been hoping to establish the first unionised warehouse in the United States in Amazon have been defeated by the company. Labour officials said, workers at the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse voted 1,798 to 738 against the effort. That was a majority of the votes that were cast in the contest and according…
United States based software giant Microsoft Corp will be acquiring artificial intelligence and speech technology firm Nuance Communications Inc in a deal worth about $6 billion in cash, the company said on Monday. Analysts said that this is a part of the strategy of Microsoft to further its business in the area of cloud strategy…
The European airplane maker Airbus saw a surge in deliveries of its planes in March because of a revival of air travel in China and the United States which resulted in its shares also surging. During the first quarter, slightly higher deliveries was reported by Airbus as the company also disclosed 39 gross orders, including…
The continued interest and favouritism of investors for fast-growing fintech firmclompanies arounf the world was at display again as the British financial technology start-up TrueLayer saying that it raised $70 million in fresh funding. The known as APIs, or application programming interfaces technology offered by TrueLayer allows the connection between fintech apps such as Revolut…
