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,…
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has run an aircraft engine on hydrogen, a world first for the aviation industry, which is considering using the fuel to decarbonize air travel. In a joint project with the airline easyJet, the FTSE 100 engineering firm said the ground test was a “major step towards proving that hydrogen could…
Disruptions at Apple Inc.’s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou are likely to result in a production shortfall of close to 6 million iPhone Pro units this year, according to a Bloomberg report quoting people familiar with assembly operations. The situation at the plant is still fluid, and the estimate of lost production could change, according to…
Elon Musk said in a tweet Friday that Twitter’s delayed “Verified” service would be available next week, with different colored checks depending on the type of account. The Twitter CEO stated that there would be a “gold check” for businesses, a grey check for government accounts, and the existing blue check for individuals, whether celebrities…
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is reducing output at its Solihull and Halewood factories until the spring due to ongoing issues obtaining enough computer chips for new vehicles. The action is expected to have an impact on the output of models like the Jaguar F-Pace and the Land Rover Discovery Sport. According to the Guardian, the…
According to Reuters, International Holding Company (IHC) plans to sell 20% of its technology unit in an initial public offering next year, with the UAE’s IHC aiming for a first quarter IPO of Pure Health to raise more than $1 billion. IHC has been on a consolidation and acquisition spree since rising from relative obscurity…
Policymakers at the European Central Bank feared that inflation was becoming entrenched at their most recent policy meeting, so rates would need to rise further, according to meeting accounts released on Thursday. The ECB raised interest rates by 75 basis points to 1.5% at the meeting to combat sky-high inflation, bringing its total hikes since…
Are you put off by Elon Musk’s commanding management style? Come with us! That’s the pitch being used by talent-starved technology firms to entice thousands of former Twitter employees who were laid off by the social media company’s new owner. Following Musk’s tumultuous takeover of the social media platform, Twitter has fired top executives and…
Some Google employees are concerned that they will be the next victims of industry-wide layoffs. While Google has so far avoided the widespread job cuts that have afflicted other tech companies, particularly those bolstered by a slumping ad market, internal anxiety is rising, according to documents obtained by CNBC and employees who spoke on the…
Elon Musk accused leaders of major civil rights organizations of breaking an accord with him by inspiring companies to stop advertising on Twitter. Such accusations have however been denied by the civil rights organizations. On Tuesday, Musk had tweeted, “a large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us…
The company that intends to take Trump Media and Technology Group and its Truth Social platform public has said that shareholders voted to postpone be a number of months a deadline for its merger with the former president’s firm. Following a brief shareholder meeting to announce the delay, Digital World Acquisition Corp. shares closed more than 5%…
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