Recession Fears Resurface As German Business Confidence Fall Significantly In August

The Munich-based Ifo institute said on Monday that a more than expected fall in the levels of confidence among German business was recorded during August. The business confidence index of the firm – which is formed on the basis of a survey of 9000 companies, dropped from 95.7 points in July to 94.3 points this…

Data Gathering Methods Of Facebook Restricted By Germany’s Watchdog

The manner in which the tech giant Facebook may profile people has been severely criticized by Germany’s competition authority in what is being viewed by analysts as a clear challenge to the business model of the largest social media platform of the world. Germany’s competition authority has said that the users of Facebook have the…

France and the United States hammer out a draft agreement on French digital tax

U.S. tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook routinely generate huge profits from digital services in countries but route the profits through low-tax countries, such as Ireland and Luxembourg, in order to lower their tax profile in the country from which they had generated their revenues. France’s proposal to rectify this anomaly had unnerved…

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Nvidia courts Amazon.com and VMWare with new AI-focused software

Nvidia’s vComputeServer software will help shuffle data back and forth between data centers and the cloud. In an effort which sees chipmaker Nvidia Corp increasing its footprint in the cloud computing space, it stated has begun collaborating with Amazon.com Inc’s cloud division as well as with VMWare Inc to host artificial intelligence programs in Amazon’s…

New Patch Based Treatment For Skin Cancer Shows Promise, Claim MIT Scientists

Results of a new research that was presented at the American Chemical Society conference in California, San Diego, during the weekend claimed to be successful in deliver cancer medications through the skin via an experimental patch. The initial trials were done on mice and human skin samples. The patch based treatment targeted at melanoma, a…

Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia could be factory site for Tesla’s Gigafactory

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, is a leading destination for Tesla’s Gigafactory in the EU. According to a report from German news daily Rheinische Post citing sources familiar with the matter at hand, U.S. electric carmaker Tesla is scouting for a location for a factory in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). According…