Boost in demand for its cloud and remote collaboration tools because of the work from home orders issued during the novel coronavirus pandemic helped Microsoft to easily beat earning expectations by analysts for the latest completed quarter. For the three months ended in June, a 13 per cent year on year growth in revenues was…
Spirit bottles that are completely based on paper and are 100 per cent plastic free, made from sustainably sourced wood, have been created for the first time in the world, claimed Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Guinness, has claimed. The company said that the first use of this paper based bottle would…
Pressure by the United States over the future of the Chinese firm owned app TikTok in the US could jeopardize the plan of the Chinese firm to shift its international headquarters in the United Kingdom. Talks with the UK government to create a new international based HQ in London have been held by the Chinese…
Dutch electronics giant Philips is confident of returning to growth and profits in the second half of the current year even though it said that its net profits dropped in the second quarter opf the current year because of the novel coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Philip’s net profit dropped by 14.63 per cent year on year…
BNP Paribas is the bank that companies turned to get emergency loans more than any other in Europe whet he novel coronavirus pandemic struck the continent. Compared to BNP, its closest rivals including Santander, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse had managed to expand their balance sheet and credit payout by only about 5 per cent.…
Its entire fleet of the iconic Boeing 747 airplanes is being retired earlier than expected by British Airways primarily because of the novel coronavirus pandemic induced slump in the global airline industry. British Airways is the largest operator of Boeing 747 in the world currently. The original plan of the British Airways, owned by International…
According to a report published by the Observer, the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturing giant Huawei has been privately told by the British government that it was being banned from 5G telecom networks in the country because of “geopolitical” reasons after being exposed to intense pressure from United States President Donald Trump. The report claimed that…
Growing concerns over the new and controversial national security law imposed on Hong Kong by China has forced a number of virtual private network (VPN) providers of the United States and Canada to shut down their servers in the city. VPNs are used by internet users to conceal and protect their privacy while avoiding any…
Russia based and backed hackers have been trying to steal information about the research on vaccines against the novel cooronavirus with the pandemic surging again across the world, alleged the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. So far more than 585,000 people have been killed so far while infecting a total of more than…
Social media company Twitter confirmed on Friday that the latest hacking incident of its platform had targeted 130 accounts in the unprecedented attack. The company added that “for a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts”. Passwords of the accounts…
