Elon Musk has denied that his Starlink satellite broadband project takes up too much room in space. According to the Financial Times, “tens of billions” of satellites can be hosted in orbits close to Earth. After the president of the European Space Agency (ESA) said that Musk was “setting the rules” for the nascent commercial…
The first phase of its acquisition of Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chip business has been completed by SK Hynix Inc, the South Korean company said. The company has already obtained regulatory approval for the deal from regulators in eight countries including from China. According to the deal, against the first phase of the acquisition,…
The latest Spider-Man film has turned out to be the first pandemic-era film to gross more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. In addition, Spider-Man: No Way Home was named the highest-grossing film of 2021. The revenues garnered by the film were higher than The Battle of Lake Changjin, a Chinese-made Korean War epic that…
Selfridges, a British luxury department store business, is now being sold to a Thai retailer and an Austrian real estate company. According to the BBC, the sale for the majority of Selfridges Group is worth roughly £4 billion ($5.4 billion). The company is best known for its flagship department store on London’s Oxford Street, which…
Following a protest over a letter advising itds suppliers not to purchase items or labour from China’s Xinjiang region, Intel has issued an apology. In China, the letter form the company had triggered outrage and calls for a boycott. Following limitations imposed by “various countries,” Intel was “forced to ensure” that its supply chain did not use…
Following reporting slower than expected sales for its Alzheimer’s drug in the United States as hospitals complained that the price of the drug was too high and its benefits did not meet the costs, Biogen Inc dropped the price of the drugs by about 50 per cent to $28,200 for an average weight person. The…
The privately held footwear label Heydude si to be acquired by Crocs Inc in a deal worth $2.5 billion, Crocs said. This is a part of its strategy of the rubber clogs producer to cash in on the pandemic-driven rise in casual shoe demand. Consumers who were stranded at home during last year’s lockdowns swapped…
Tencent, the Chinese gaming and social media giant , will distribute the majority of its JD.com stock in order to pay a $16.4 billion dividend. This is expected to weaken its links to the e-commerce firm and raising worries about its ambitions for other holdings. The decision by the company was made at a time as Beijing has a major regulatory…
The Indian branch of Japanese multinational Sony has agreed to merge with local rival Zee Entertainment to create the country’s second largest entertainment network. More than 75 television networks, film assets, and two streaming platforms will be part of the united entity. It is on track to become a key participant in the fast-growing entertainment…
Unconditional antitrust approval was granted to software giant Microsoft by the European Commission on Tuesday for the acquisition of artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications for a $16 billion deal. This acquisition is the largest for United States based Microsoft since its acquisition of the networking social media platform LinkedIn in 2016 for…
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