In a statement Microsoft Corp said, it will continue to negotiate with ByteDance for purchasing Chinese short-video app maker TikTok, with negotiations likely to conclude by September 15. Microsoft’s statement come in the wake of a conversation between its CEO Satya Nadella with U.S. President Donald Trump. Microsoft will ensure that the private data of…
Twitter has provided details of its investigation into the unprecedented hacking of celebrity Twitter accounts earlier this month. The company said that that the hack was a result of human error and a spear-phishing attack on Twitter employees. Spear-phishing is a form of targeted cyber attack that is designed to trick people into themselves handing…
In a significant development, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission stated, it has approved Amazon.com Inc’s “Project Kuiper” project which envisages to build a network of more than 3,200 satellites in order to provide high speed broadband internet service anywhere in the world. In 2019, Amazon had stated, it will launch a constellation of low earth-orbitting…
Twitter Inc, whose internal systems were breached by hackers two ago, stated a “spear-phishing” attack on a small number of employees through a phone led to the security incident. Hackers targeted the U.S. microblogging site managed to breach 130 accounts, managed to access the inbox of 36 accounts and tweeted from 45 of them; they…
With plummeting of consumer spending, company investment and exports during the second quarter, the German economy contracted at its steepest rate on record for the period. This was during the peak of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the country. Gains made in the last 10 years have been wiped off by the hit. There was…
A record writedown on the value of its oil and gas assets because of the collapse in the global prices of oil and gas because of the coronavirus forced Royal Dutch Shell has to report a deep financial loss. For the second quarter 2020, a net loss of $18.3bn was reported by the Anglo-Dutch oil…
The world’s largest brewer has noted a bounce back in beer sales. Following three months of continuous decline in sale of beer globally because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, an increase in its global sales volume in June was reported on Thursday by Anheuser-Busch InBev. The brewer’s business had been heavily impacted by restrictions imposed…
According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, European software startup Infobip has raised more than $200 million from One Equity Partners, a private equity fund, in a series A funding round which values the company at more than $1 billion. The startup aims to channelize the additional funds to expand its footprint in…
Loss of $2.4 billion in the last three months was reported by the United States based plane maker Boeing. Analysts see this as the latest sign of troubles for the company because of the novel coronavirus pandemic which has hit the global aerospace industry particularly hard. The “prolonged impact” of the pandemic has made it…
The largest automaker of the United States – General Motors Co, said that it would be able generate enough cash by the end of the year to pay off a $16 billion loan if the US economy continues its rebound after the novel coronavirus pandemic shock and if there are no further production shutdowns for…
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