Despite the preparation by the social media giant for the payment of a record-setting penalty for settlement of privacy issues with the U.S. regulators, Wall Street seemed to care less as the company announced increased number of users and heightened profit expectations for the first quarter of the current year. Facebook has been facing probes…
The United States has continued to keep Alibaba’s taobao.com, China’s biggest e-commerce platform on this blacklist. Continuing its crackdown on Chinese companies which exploit and steal U.S. intellectual property, the United States added Pinduoduo.com, China’s third-largest e-commerce platform to its list of “notorious markets” for violations of intellectual property rights. The United States also kept…
Deciding that their merger would have been too risky to pull off, talks of a merger has been abandoned by Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. “Sufficient benefits” would have been generated by the deal which would have offset the expenses for the deal, said both banks. The two German banks had started merger negotiations only last…
According to a new Pew Research Center survey, the majority of the most prolific users on Twitter are comprised of women. A number of differences between the most active users on the social media platform Twitter and the majority of people on its platform were found identified by researchers of the report of the study…
While there are several competitors in the fray to provide internet access to underserved areas, SoftBank and Alphabet opine collaboration could be the key to their solution gaining wider traction and broader adoption. In a significant development, SoftBank Corp stated, it will be investing $125 million in one of Alphabet Inc’s spinoff working to find…
The development comes in the wake of Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, tweeting that Panasonic has been a constraint on Tesla’s production of the Model 3 since July 2018. Against the installed capacity of 35 GWh at Tesla’s Gigafactory at Nevada, Panasonic has operationalized only 24 GWh. On Thursday, as per a source familiar with the…
Solidarity to their compatriot tech workers in China was expressed by employees of Microsoft through a letter that they got published on the software development platform Github. Workers of tech companies in the United States have made use of this platform, owned by Microsoft, for expressing their views and lodging complaints about the grueling working…
After having closed the acquisition of overseas based Costa Coffee in a deal worth $5 billion in the first quarter of the current year, Coca-Cola is now eyeing greater involvement with the wider coffee industry. After Starbucks, Costa Coffee is the largest coffee brand in the world. The company CEO James Quincey does not want…
Samsung Electronics will investment 11 trillion won annually upto 2030, so as to become the world no.1 in logic chips. On Wednesday, Samsung Electronics stated it would be sinking in $9.57 billion (11 trillion won) annual through 2030 in its logic chip businesses, including its foundry business. The investment by Samsung Electronics, the world leader…
The most significant part of the indictment is that this is the first time that the United States has tied these economic and intellectual property thefts to the Chinese government. In a significant development, as per an indictment unsealed by the U.S. Justice Department, a Chinese businessman as well as a former engineer working at…
