If “everything goes according to plan” in upcoming tests, the first astronaut abroad SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon capsule will be able to go into orbit in its first manned flight by the first quarter of next year, said NASA chief Jim Bridenstine. This announcement of a revised time line for the flight shows that progress…
New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has set a 31% limit on how much time drivers of app-based vehicles can drive without passengers in Manhattan south of 96th Street. In a development that mirrors Uber’s move to sue the New York City state in order to nullify a new rule which limits the…
There was a 30 per cent drop in sale for the United States based car major Ford in the Chinese market for the July-to-September period as the second-biggest market of the company has been witnessing a prolonged period of sale drop on across the sector. The company had reported a 35.8 per cent drop in…
The chief executive of the French car manufacturer Renault Thierry Bolloré, has been unceremoniously dismissed by the company with immediate effect. The company has also appointed the current finance director, Clotilde Delbos, of the company an interim chief executive. Earlier this week, the Japanese car maker Nissan, Renault’s industrial partner, appointed a new chief executive.…
Following the emergence of reports about the ten-fold increase in losses at the UK subsidiaries of the embattled office space company WeWork touching £76m last year, the company’s co-founder Adam Neumann is no longer a multibillionaire. It is estimated that as of March this year, the personal assets of Neumann was worth $4.1bn (£3.2bn) and…
WeWork is trimming its footprint in China and is expanding it in Singapore. On Thursday, Office-sharing startup WeWork stated, it plans on opening two new locations in Singapore later this year. The development comes even as WeWork seeks a $1 billion loan from its biggest-backer Softbank Group Corp in order to progress on its major…
Amnesty International’s report details how booby-trapped text messages were used to collect information stored locally on cellphones. A research by Amnesty International has uncovered that hackers armed with sophisticated spying software have been targeting Moroccan human rights activists midst a government crackdown on protests in recent years. The report released by the British non-profit human…
Of the 13.1 trillion won, Samsung Display aims to spend 10 trillion won on facilities and the balance on research and development. On Thursday, South Korea’s presidential office issued a statement saying, Samsung Display plans on investing $11.0 billion (13.1 trillion won) on facilities and research by 2025. Samsung Display is a unit of Samsung…
A little more than 130 U.S. firms have applied to the U.S. Commerce Department for such a license. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, the United States is set to soon issue licenses to a few U.S. companies to supply non-sensitive items to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. The Chinese company has…
Risk consultants sees U.S. investors quietly exiting from their partnership/commitments with the affected Chinese companies. In a significant development, Goldman Sachs Group Inc has stated, it is in the process of reviewing its involvement in China’s Megvii Technology Ltd’s initial public offering (IPO) following the U.S. Commerce Department placing the artificial intelligence firm on an…
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