The embezzled chairman of the French carmaker Renault who is also under arrest in Japan on charges of financial misconduct as the chairman of Japanese car maker Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, has reportedly resigned from the company. “Carlos Ghosn just resigned last night”, announced the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, to Bloomberg Television. Ghosn was…
Even as the United States has been up in arms against Chinese tech giant Huawei alleging its products can be a huge security risk, plans to make use of the next-generation smartphone developed using its own technology rather than of US components was announced by the tech giant this week. Huawei Technologies has been making…
Concerned about videos of dangerous pranks putting at danger the lives of people, the posting of such videos that pose challenges to others of duplicating such pranks have been banned on YouTube. It will not allow any of its users to upload prank or challenge videos “that can cause death and/or have caused death in…
A new report from Wealth-X, a firm that tracks global wealth, concluded that there was a 2 per cent growth in the number of wealthy individuals as well as in their collective wealth globally. In 2018, the number of high-net-worth individuals globally was 23 million and they had a combined wealth of $62 trillion. The…
A report prepared for next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, identified as the most urgent global t\risk to be the ever increasing tension between the world’s major powers which is creating roadblocks to get together collective action to take concrete measures against climate change. According to a survey of around 1,000 experts and…
With the shrinking of the global smartphone market, the force is being most felt by two of the biggest players. Warnings of a drop in sale and consequently profits for the last quarter of 2018 have been issued by both Apple and Samsung. Additionally, another South Korean tech company LG issued warning of a drop…
Hopes of avoidance of a full blown trade war with between China and the United States emerged after the end of a longer than expected trade talks between trade representatives of the two countries came to an end. The detailed results of the three day talks would be made public later, said officials. China’s Foreign…
