US Gives Permission To Qualcomm To Sell 4G Chips To China’s Huawei

A special license was granted to Qualcomm Inc on Friday by the United States government allowing the company to now sell 4G mobile phone chips to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd in what is an exemption to trade restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on the Chinese firm as trade and geopolitical tensions increase between…

Burberry Warns British Government Move To Scrap Tax-Free Shopping Will Hit It Hard

The British luxury brand Burberry will be robbed of its “home market advantage” on the eve of Brexit if the British government does scrap tax-free shopping because the wealthy international tourists mainly choose to holiday in mainland Europe rather than in the United Kingdom. Those foreign tourists who traditionally accounted more than half of its…

Amazon relocates machine learning tasks to its custom designed chips, away from NVidia Corp

In a development that underscores cost cutting measures adopted by Amazon.com Inc, the e-commerce giant said it has shifted some computing power for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, away from chips supplied by Nvidia Corp. When consumers ask devices equipped with Alexa, including Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers, a question…

Stocks Worth $5.6 Million Sold By Pfizer’s CEO The Day The Firm Announced Positive Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Results

On Monday, when the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had made the announcement of the positive data about its coronavirus vaccine, the CEO of the drug maker, Albert Bourla, had also filed to sell millions of dollars of his company’s stock. After Pfizer and European drug company BioNTech said that results from its early data suggested that…

Ride hailing service provider Bolt to invest $118M in European e-scooter market in 2021

On Thursday, Estonia-based ride-hailing service provider Bolt stated, it has decided to invest $118 million in 2021 and has set a goal to become the biggest e-scooter rental company in Europe. The development comes at a time when cab services have been severely affected by the coronavirus-induced COVID19 pandemic. As part of this strategy Bolt…