In a statement that sees Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp stepping up its pivot towards healthcare, the Japanese giant said, it will spend $928 million to double its capacity at a drug manufacturing facility in Denmark, which it has pledged to use for producing COVID-19 treatments. Fujifilm Holdings Corp’s investment in Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies will expand…
According to a report from The Times, the contact tracing app of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is scheduled for launch for the next tranche of easing lockdown restrictions at the start of July. Late last month, Britain had said it was dealing with technical issues related to the app, which was seen as a…
Alphabet’s Inc’s Google Inc stated, it is adding features to its Maps app which will alert users about COVID-19-related travel restrictions to help better plan their trips. The Google Map update also allows users to check how crowded a train station is likely to be at a particular time, or whether buses running on a…
In a letter to the U.S. Congress, International Business Machines Corp’s new Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said, it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software; IBM is also calling for efforts to pursue justice and racial equity. IBM will stop offering facial recognition software and opposes any use of the technology for…
Late on Monday, the U.S. unit of China Telecom Corp pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to not revoke the company’s authorization to provide international telecommunications services in the United States. The development comes in the wake of the U.S. Justice Department along with other agencies asking the FCC in April to revoke the…
A customer of Amazon who was angry as he criticized the company’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement was given a befitting reply by the company’s CEO Jeff Bezos trough an e-mail. In an Instagram post late Sunday, Bezos described the customer’s email as “sickening” and added that the individual was just the kind…
After a dispute with Amazon over an e-book on the novel coronavirus, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has not called for the “break up” of he United States based tech giant and the largest e-commerce company of the world Amazon. In a recent move, Amazon’s Kindle publishing division rejected a book on the coronavirus pandemic by…
Facebook Inc said that it will start labeling media organizations that are that are state controlled by governments such as in Russia, China and other countries and will start blocking any advertisements from these media outlets that are targeted at users of the largest social media platform n eh United States later this year. According…
Following agreements with a number of entities, which includes two health organisations backed by Bill and Melinda Gates, pharma giant AstraZeneca has said that it has now managed to double its manufacturing capacity for its potential Covid-19 vaccine to 2 billion doses. The company had said last week that its capacity of manufacturing the vaccine…
In a significant development, France and Germany have thrown their weight behind plans to create a cloud computing ecosystem aimed at reducing Europe’s dependence on established tech giants including Google, Microsoft and Amazon. The project, dubbed Gaia-X, aims to establish common standards for storing and processing data on servers that are sited locally and comply…
