Following Reuters’ revelation that married women being turned away from iPhone assembly positions at Foxconn, an Apple supplier, the women’s wing of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing party on Friday requested the National Commission for Women to open an inquiry. Vanathi Srinivasan, national head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) women’s wing, submitted a…
According to a report by Bloomberg News on Thursday, Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund 2 is investing between $10 million and $20 million at a valuation of $3 billion in the U.S. search firm Perplexity AI. SoftBank plans to contribute this sum as a component of a broader $250 million capital round,…
The new co-leaders of UBS, Rob Karofsky and Iqbal Khan, stated in their first internal memo, which was leaked to the public on Thursday, that UBS is implementing adjustments to its wealth management sector. As part of a reorganisation of its executive board, UBS said last month that it would divide its top wealth management…
Three sources said that banks assisting South Korean carmaker Hyundai on its initial public offering (IPO) in India stand to earn up to $40 million in fees. This represents a windfall in a sector where banks often struggle to turn a profit due to cost-conscious clientele and a decline in large deals. It comes amid…
The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by volume, Binance, was fined 188.2 million rupees (about $2.25 million) by India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for breaking the nation’s anti-money laundering laws. When Binance will start operating again in the nation is yet unknown. The Indian FIU stopped access to Binance, one of nine international bitcoin…
Shein’s possible London IPO, according to Amnesty International UK, would be a “badge of shame” for the London Stock Exchange due to the fast-fashion company’s “questionable” labour and human rights standards. This was said on Tuesday. According to two people who spoke with Reuters on Monday, Shein secretly submitted documents with the British markets regulator…
Reuters was informed by two individuals with knowledge of the situation last month that the American food delivery company Doordash expressed interest in acquiring Britain’s Deliveroo. Based in San Francisco Deliveroo was approached by Doordash, but negotiations broke down over a disagreement over price, according to one of the persons, who wished to remain anonymous…
Tuesday’s trading in global semiconductor equities was erratic following the previous session’s decline in Nvidia shares. Early trading saw a decline in the stock prices of semiconductor companies in Europe and Asia as investors responded to Nvidia’s more than $500 billion market capitalization loss over the course of three trading days. However, some of the…
In an effort to draw more customers to its e-commerce platform and accelerate revenue development, Shopify opened up access to more users on Monday to its artificial intelligence-powered products, such as the Sidekick assistant and image-generation function. The Canada-based company said at its biennial products event that customers may now use its editing tool on…
An adequate supply of high-end processors would allow TikTok’s owner secure them in the midst of U.S.-Sino tensions. According to two people familiar with the situation, China’s ByteDance is collaborating with U.S. chip designer Broadcom on the development of an advanced AI processor. According to the sources, the 5 nanometer device, sometimes referred to as…
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