The postponement of a trip to Denmark by the United States president Donald Trump, ostensibly because the European nation’s prime minister did not show interest in selling off Greenland to the United States has made many curious around the world. Postponement of the visit was announced by Trump on Twitter saying: “based on Prime Minister…
Shares of retailer target reached record highs after the company reported better than expected second quarter performance in all aspects. The company reported a 17 per cent increase in the quarterly profit as it was able to attract more customers and thereby generate more revenues because of its in-store pickup and same-day shipping services. The…
Walmart has alleged that solar panels supplied by the United States based electric carmaker Tesla were faulty and was cause for a number of fires at about seven stores of the company. Following this, Walmart has filed a case against the electric car maker. In the lawsuit filed by it in a New York court,…
A new digital tax passed recently by the French government is being passed on to the French sellers by Amazon. The company largest e-commerce platform in the world is set to increase seller fees by 3 per cent for the thousands of small and medium-sized businesses in the country that make use of the platform.…
The wave of consolidation in the in the pub and brewing sector is continuing and the latest deal in this sector if the purchasing of pub giant and brewer Greene King by Hong Kong operator CKA. About 2,700 pubs, restaurants and hotels in total across the UK is owned and operated by Suffolk-based Greene King.…
Researchers say that one can be allowed to “put words in people’s mouths” with the help of a new tool that the recently released and which exploits a vulnerability in Facebook’s Whatsapp. How alteration of the text within quoted messages can done with the help of the tool was demonstrated by a team from cybersecurity…
There has been a surge in the rental rates of older planes as airlines turn to such crafts to cater to the growing demand for the industry given the global grounding of the 737 Max planes of Boeing has now entered in the sixth month. “Used 800s are like a gold dust at the moment,”…
Employees of Foxconn engaged in making popular Amazon devices were being forced ot work for long hours and the company was engaged in worker abuse and poor pay as well, claimed a report prepared by China Labor Watch. An investigation in this regard has been initiated by it, Amazon has said. This is the second…
According to the claims of the cybersecurity firm FireEye, cyber spying activities for the Chinese government in 14 different countries had been undertaken by a group of state-sponsored hackers in China even as the group also conducted hacking for making personal gains. The Chinese hacking group is called APT41, according to the cyber security company,…
Faecbook wants to publish news content of news publishers on its social media platform and is reportedly holding talks with such companies. Reports have suggested that the largest social media company is ready to “millions of dollars” to get the rights to the news content materials. For years, Facebook has been criticized by many because…
