A consortium of funders of an academic project have threatened to stop supporting the social media company if it does not provide the data it promised to academic researchers by September 30, according to a report published in BuzzFeed News. According to the report, this warning has been issued by a statement from the Social…
South Africa’s Standard Bank plans to reach out to millions of small shop owners and other informal retailers across the continent through taking up a stake in local fintech firm Nomanini so that it is able to offer credit to the targeted market. An investment of $4 million in Nomanini has been made by Africa’s…
It was a great opening of its first store in China for the United States based hypermarket chain Costco Wholesale Corp in the Shanghai city of the country if the interest and enthusiasm of the customers is considered. According to the Chinese state media, the first store in the high tech city of China had…
The first customer of Boeing to file a case over the global grounding of its 737 Max planes is a Russian company Avia that leases aircraft. In the lawsuit, Avia alleged that Boeing had misrepresented how safe the plane was to fly and thereby had breached the contract. The company, which had got into a…
The Munich-based Ifo institute said on Monday that a more than expected fall in the levels of confidence among German business was recorded during August. The business confidence index of the firm – which is formed on the basis of a survey of 9000 companies, dropped from 95.7 points in July to 94.3 points this…
The manner in which the tech giant Facebook may profile people has been severely criticized by Germany’s competition authority in what is being viewed by analysts as a clear challenge to the business model of the largest social media platform of the world. Germany’s competition authority has said that the users of Facebook have the…
Worries that China has completely given up on the chance of arriving at a trade deal with the United States and end the trade war between the two largest economies of the world were stoked after the value of the Chinese yuan dropped to a new 11-year low against the US dollar at the end…
Results of a new research that was presented at the American Chemical Society conference in California, San Diego, during the weekend claimed to be successful in deliver cancer medications through the skin via an experimental patch. The initial trials were done on mice and human skin samples. The patch based treatment targeted at melanoma, a…
Amazon.com is increasing its footprint in physical retail business in India. According to a regulatory filing late on Thursday by Future Retail, a minority stake of 3.58 per cent in the company is set to be taken up by Amazon. Future Retail owns and operates over 1,500 retail stores in India and is the owner…
Those companies that are focused value creation are the preferred choice as partners in business for modern corporations, claimed Salesforce’s Keith Block in an interview to a television channel. That is the reason that Salesforce decided to be part a group of about 200 other companies and businesses that have recently taken pledge to shift…
