Marriott Hotels chain has been fined £18.4m by the data privacy watchdog of the United Kingdom for a major data breach in which data of up to 339 million guests could have been compromised. The cyber attack could have resulted in names, contact information, and passport details of millions of guests being stolen or mishandled,…

Black franchise owners of McDonald’s accused the fast-food giant of racial discrimination for steering them to underperforming stores and filed a lawsuit that could potentially run into billions of dollars. The law firm representing 52 Black former franchisees who filed a similar lawsuit on August 31 filed the proposed class action and it as led…

Driven by a surge in demand for luxury cars by customers in the Chinese market helped the German auto giant Volkswagen AG to offset a decline of 1.1 per cent in delivery of vehicles because of the currently on going novel coronavirus pandemic. It also helped the largest automotive company of the world in terms…

Even though the energy company warned of “significant uncertainty” because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, its dividend was increased by Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday after the company easily beat third quarter profit forecasts. After having cut its dividend in April – which was the first time that the Anglo-Dutch company had done so since…

Profit expectations for the latest completed quarter were beaten by United Parcel Service Inc. But despite this, shares of the company dropped by 5.7 per cent because investors were apparently worried about a margin squeeze because of the increased e-commerce deliveries being undertaken by the company due to the increased demand during the novel coronavirus…

A quarterly profit and a positive cash flow were reported by General Electric Co on Wednesday which surprised analysts and the market. This performance was driven by cost cuts and improvements in its power and renewable energy businesses. The shares of the company rose by 10 per cent on the news. For the third quarter,…

There will not likely be an overall pick up in travel spending anytime soon, Mastercard said on Wednesday while also warning that the timing and the availability of Covid-19 vaccines will be the determinant for a recovery in cross border volumes of travel. There is still a significant impact of the pandemic on international travel,…

A immune response that as found to be similar among older and younger adults was produced by the under-trial vaccine candidate against Covi-19 being developed by the British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. The trial also fund that the potential adverse responses to the vaccine among the elderly were lower, said AstraZeneca, which is developing its potential…

Data for the late stage trial of its vaccine candidate against Covid-19 is not yet ready to be published, said drug maker Pfizer Inc on Tuesday. The company is developing the vaccine in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech SE. Any interim efficacy analyses had not yet been conducted by the independent monitor that is tasked with…