The U.K Justice secretary of the view that there should be banning of the sale of miniature mobile phones by online retailers because the design of the phones is such that is easy to be smuggled into prisons. The body orifice security scanners that are used in England and Wales would not be able to…
BP had made significant investments in renewable energy and was in a leading position among industry peers at a time when companies were going green. It was amongst the first oil majors to accept the linkage between fossil fuel burning and global warming. And it had coined the slogan “Beyond Petroleum.” But the Gulf of…
SpaceX marched another step closer to its aim of achieving complete reusability of rockets after the company recently launched and landed a used rocket as part of a delivery mission for NASA. SpaceX’s robotic Dragon capsule was sent on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of the company’s two-stage Falcon…
When in Rome, do as the Romans: simple enough a motto when travelling, but what about business relationships which cross borders? How can cooperation between supplier and client run smoothly when one works with one set of standards, and the other with a different set? Reporting is essential and should be carried out with surgical…
Beijing has signaled that it is keeping a close watch on the movements in rate across the Pacific in the U.S. and is keen to maintain its capacity to contain capital outflow after China’s central bank increased the interbank policy rates by 5 basis points soon after a rate hike was announced by the US…
For BMW AG, striking compelling deals for the long term supply of cobalt in a market where there is a growing shortage of the most important material for battery production for electric vehicles, is crucial as the German auto maker believes that by the middle of the next decade, its need for cobalt and lithium…
According to a new study, large tremors could be triggered in the near future because of fracking. Fracking is the technological process that is applied in the oil and natural gas industry for production where hydraulic fracturing or small earthquakes are created through artificial means to bring out oil and natural gags from the Earth.…
Cryptocurrencies are being unwittingly mined by the users of four popular video sites every month. According to a report on the practice of the so called cryptojacking, the number of visitors in this case is almost one billion. According to security firm Adguard, tokens for the bitcoin-like cryptocurrency Monero are being created as cryptocurrency mining…
The One Belt One Road (OBOR) program of China has seen financing of infrastructure projects right across Asia. However, the world’s second-largest economy is the one that does all the deciding – which countries get funding and when. However, a cautionary tale is being offered by Pakistan. China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the name…
A study on the aspect of net neutrality and its history in the U.S. was published by business information provider IS Markit. The report also examined the related information on rivalry which could determine the future of the internet if the present net neutrality protections be repelled, amidst risin fears of removal of net neutrality. “Despite…
