The Chinese ride hailing giant aims to focus on its core businesses this year. On Friday, a source familiar with the matter at hand disclosed, Chinese ride sharing giant Didi Chuxing will be laying off 15% of its workforce, roughly 2,000 people, in 2019. According to the source, Didi Chuxing’s CEO Cheng Wei told during…
Wal-Mart is in the process of fixing the issues due to which it had to cut its ties with the logistics firm. In a significant development that marks a setback against Wal-Mart’s efforts to fight Amazon.com in the groceries segment, logistics firm Deliv and Walmart Inc have discontinued their same-day grocery delivery partnership. In 2018,…
This conclusion was made by Sabine Lautenschlaeger, director at the European Central Bank, to an audience in Sydney. On Wednesday, Sabine Lautenschlaeger, European Central Bank director stated, the majority of London-based banks relocating to the Eurozone due to Brexit, have made “reasonable progress” in preparing the move. “We have urged and pushed them (banks) to…
Thailand is more sensitive about the price of setting up its 5G networks than its national security. On Friday, despite calls from the United States to to its allies to bar China’s Huawei Technologies from building next generation mobile networks, Thailand launched a test bed for the Chinese telecom giant. Huawei is facing growing pressure…
The move is clearly aimed at boosting shareholder returns. On Friday, Sony Corp announced its first-ever major share buyback worth $910 million (100 billion yen). With the news reaching the market, its stock recovered from a hammering from investors who were spooked over its lackluster earnings. Sony’s announcement marked Japan’s second major buyback this week:…
According to a report published in the Washington Post on Thursday, the US based largest social media platform of the world Facebook could be facing penalties to the tune of billions of dollars as it attempts to settle a case with the US government which is related to the lapses made by the company over…
A $700 million investment round, in which Amazon was a major player, was announced to have been successfully completed by electric truck start-up Rivian which is also touted to be a potential rival to US electric auto maker Tesla. It was just months ago that the company, based out of Michigan i n United States,…
Negotiations are going on between Germany’s Metro and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd for the Chinese company potentially taking up a stake in the German company’s China operations according to a report published by Reuters. The report however carried no comments from either Metro or Alibaba. According to the report quoting sources, the…
A crypto currency has been created by US investment bank JP Morgan to allow a section of its customers who are in the wholesale business to be able to make payments in digital currencies. This is the first time that a digital coin has been developed by a US based major bank. The bank said…
According to media reports quoting sources, the British Prime Minister Theresa May has been told by US car maker Ford Motor Co that some of its production processes would have to be moved out of the UK due to Brexit, this was conveyed by the company during a conference call on Tuesday with May. According…
Chinese telecom giant Huawei has equated the decision of New Zealand to leave it out of the process of construction of its 5G mobile network to the All Blacks being left out of a rugby tournament. This was communicated by the Chinese firm, the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, through full-page ads in…
An activist investor of the British online takeaway service platform Just Eat is putting pressure on the company get merged with a rival instead of the company looking for and appointing a new chief executive. An open letter, demanding a merger with another online food delivery company within the next few months, was sent to…
