Users can now make payments at retail stores with the use of any android run smartphone with NFC support by Google’s new payment app. The app, called Google Pay, can be downloaded free of charge but is only now available in the US and the UK. A number of characteristics of the current Android Pay…
Samsung Display has cut the production of its OLED panels by around 50%. Japanese business daily Nikkei has reported Samsung Electronics Co will slash its output of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels in response to Apple Inc’s decision to cut production of iPhone X midst weak demand. Apple Inc is Samsung Electronic’s customer. Samsung Electronic’s…
The Malaysia-based fintech firm’s GOLDX covers all the principles that are the cornerstones in Islamic financial contracts. HelloGold, a Malaysia-based firm disclosed that it has received a sharia-compliant certification for its gold-backed cryptocurrency; it plans on launching its online gold platform in Thailand later this year. GOLDX, its cryptocurrency product which was launched at the…
Sony Corp is the latest tech firm vying for market share in Japan’s highly regulated ride-hailing market and is set to partner with Daiwa Motor Transportation and 4 other domestic Japanese taxi firms for the same. On Tuesday, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported, Sony Corp is to become the latest tech firm which is jockeying for…
There was a sharp fall in the share prices of Daimler AG following a new report in a German newspaper about a potential investigation in the United States where allegedly a software has been detected in the diesel cars of its Mercedes-Benz brand which could have been only specifically designed and used in the cars…
Thousands of small satellites are planned to be put to use to provide high-speed internet to the world by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. And that plan is moving a bit closer to becoming a reality this week. On Wednesday, a rocket is slated to be launched by the company from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.…
New Zealand is due to publish its own assessment of the CPTPP on Wednesday. On Monday, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister stated her country is taking pains to see that the final text of the revived Trans-Pacific trade pact is released on Wednesday since that is when her government will also publish its own…
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop made it lucidly clear that in any such deal, Australia would want to secure the rights for its citizens to work in Britain. On Monday, Julie Bishop, Australia’s Foreign Minister stated it would welcome Britain’s participation in the regional trade group, Trans-Pacific Partnership, after March 31, 2019. Earlier this year,…
The price of a painkiller has been increased to almost $3000 a bottle by an Irish drugmaker. The company had acquired the drug in late 2013 and compared to its price then, it is 22 times more expensive now. And adding to this astronomic price increase for Horizon Pharma’s Vimovo drug is the fact that…
It would be tens of millions of years before a crash down on the surface of Earth or Venus would happen for the Tesla car that was sent out into space by Elon Musk. This was analyzed by Czech and Canadian researchers. During the next million years, there is a 2.5 per cent probability for…
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