The planned rollout of 5G networks in the United States and the United Kingdom has been impeded by an international controversy surrounding the largest manufacturer and supplier of 5G telecommunication equipment – Chinese tech giant Huawei. National security fears have prompted the US to put a ban on purchase and use of telecom equipment from…
Japanese tech based investment group SoftBank Corp intends to increase its investments in Indonesia, said the group’s founder and CEO Masayoshi Son after a meeting with the country’s President Joko Widodo. “We don’t discuss the specific numbers yet, but new smart city, newest technology, clean city, with a lot of AI, that’s what I’m interested…
German luxury car maker Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz passenger cars is set to become the biggest-selling premium car brand of the world for 2019 after the company announced that it had sold 2.34 million of the cars worldwide which also marked record sale of the brand for the ninth consecutive year. The title of the best-selling luxury…
According to internet security researchers and state government officials in the United States, following the death of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, there has been a significant increase in the incidents of attempted hacking into computer networks in the US. The network security company Cloudflare said that there was a 50 per cent increase in…
According to the competition watchdog of the United Kingdom, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a pledge to crack down on the trade of fake and misleading reviews on their sites has been made by Facebook and eBay. The CMA said that agreement aimed to better identify, investigate and respond to illegal reviews have been…
After announcing that it would put a ban on all forms of political ads on its social media platform, Twitter has now said it is going to test run a new feature that will allow its users to control who can reply to their posts and even completely block replies from other users to their…
According to experts, one of the ways that Iran could take revenge on the United States for having killed the country’s top general Qasem Soleimani in a air strike ordered by President Donald Trump was through cyber attacks. “Iran has a long history of politically motivated cyber attacks across the world,” Evercore analysts Ken Talanian…
Vodafone Hutchison has teamed up with Nokia to construct the high-speed 5G mobile network in Australia. The mobile service provider will be supplied with the telecommunication equipment for the new network by Nokia with the plans or phasing out the use of equipment from the banned Chinese telecom giant Huawei from a number of parts…
This holiday season has been another record-setter for Amazon, said that largest e-commerce company of the world. The year has also been a good one for the overall retail sector in the United States which indicated that the economic growth of the US economy still is still set to continue for some more time. The…
The announcement of a leadership shuffle at the arts and crafts retailer Michaels saw its shares rise by more than 32 per cent. The company has announced the appointment of Walmart executive Ashley Buchanan as a replacement for its new CEO Mark Cosby. The company said that while Cosby will stay on through April 1…
