Further Investments In Indonesia Intended By SoftBank’s Son

Japanese tech based investment group SoftBank Corp intends to increase its investments in Indonesia, said the group’s founder and CEO Masayoshi Son after a meeting with the country’s President Joko Widodo. “We don’t discuss the specific numbers yet, but new smart city, newest technology, clean city, with a lot of AI, that’s what I’m interested…

Mercedes-Benz Claims It Topped In Global Premium Car Sales In 2019

German luxury car maker Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz passenger cars is set to become the biggest-selling premium car brand of the world for 2019 after the company announced that it had sold 2.34 million of the cars worldwide which also marked record sale of the brand for the ninth consecutive year. The title of the best-selling luxury…

3-Fold Increase In Iran Based Hacking Efforts In US After Soleimani Strike: Cloudflare

According to internet security researchers and state government officials in the United States,  following the death of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, there has been a significant increase in the incidents of attempted hacking into computer networks in the US. The network security company Cloudflare said that there was a 50 per cent increase in…

Pledge To Crack Down On Fake Reviews Made By Facebook And eBay

According to the competition watchdog of the United Kingdom, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a pledge to crack down on the trade of fake and misleading reviews on their sites has been made by Facebook and eBay. The CMA said that agreement aimed to better identify, investigate and respond to illegal reviews have been…

Cyber Attacks Could Be A Retaliation Method of Iran Against The US

According to experts, one of the ways that Iran could take revenge on the United States for having killed the country’s top general Qasem Soleimani in a air strike ordered by President Donald Trump was through cyber attacks. “Iran has a long history of politically motivated cyber attacks across the world,” Evercore analysts Ken Talanian…

Ride Hailing Firm Grab And Teleco Singtel To Jointly Apply Digital Bank License In Singapore

The ride-hailing company Grab has decided to get in to the business of digital banking and it has announced that it will be applying for a digital full bank license in Singapore in partnership with the country’s major telecommunication services providers, Singtel. According to a joint statement of the companies, the new consortium that would…