Even as the mainstream auto companies all around the world struggled to cope up with the global shortage of semiconductors and issues with their global supply chains, the luxury car maker Bentley Motors reported selling a record number of its luxury sedans and SUVs last year, the carmaker which is now 102 years old said…
A “very tight” labor market and unchecked inflation could force the United States Federal Reserve to raise interest rates sooner than expected and begin decreasing its overall asset holdings as a second economic brake, policymakers at the US central bank said last month. The minutes from the Fed’s Dec. 14-15 policy meeting, which were released on…
Members of the Starlink satellite internet venture, which is backed by the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, were informed by the company that it had been directed by the Indian government to refund all its pre-orders from the country till such time that a license to operate in the country is granted to it. , “As…
Services and repair work for the once one of its king business smartphones that were proudly exhibited by executives, politicians and millions of its fans worldwide in the early 2000s is being finally brought to an end by BlackBerry Ltd. This announcement heralded the end of an era as the concept of email and the…
A growth of 12.1 per cent in the global sale of cars of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co and affiliate Kia Corp would be registered by the companies in the current year, the two companies said in a statement on Monday. The companies however said that a global shortage of semiconductor chips used in cars…
Elon Musk has denied that his Starlink satellite broadband project takes up too much room in space. According to the Financial Times, “tens of billions” of satellites can be hosted in orbits close to Earth. After the president of the European Space Agency (ESA) said that Musk was “setting the rules” for the nascent commercial…
The first phase of its acquisition of Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chip business has been completed by SK Hynix Inc, the South Korean company said. The company has already obtained regulatory approval for the deal from regulators in eight countries including from China. According to the deal, against the first phase of the acquisition,…
Stand News, one of Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy news organizations, is closing down following a police raid of the organization and the arrest of its senior employees. Hong Kong police has detained seven people, including current and former employees, for “conspiracy to publish seditious publications”, the police said. “Because of the situation, Stand News is ceasing operations immediately,” the organisation…
Tesco, the largest British supermarket chain, is set to launch the first commercially available all-electric HGVs in the UK to operate in its distribution center in Wales. Beginning in January, two 37-tonne lorries will transfer goods from a rail freight station in Cardiff to the company’s Magor hub, roughly 30 miles away. The trucks can drive…
China has protested that its space station was compelled to avert collisions with satellites launched by Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Services project, prompting a backlash on social media. Beijing said that the country’s space station had two “close encounters” with Starlink satellites this year. The instances that prompted the allegations to the United Nations’ space agency…
