A recent survey conducted on more than 1,000 Americans on the issue of cryptocurrencies has shown that bitcoins are majorly owned by large city based young men who are relatively well-off. The survey also found knowledge of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies exist among most people and are also able to explain their meaning to others. But…
Serious objections from some of the largest investors have forced Unilever to cancel its announced plan to shift the headquarters of the company from the United Kingdom. The planned change “has not received support from a significant group of shareholders”, said the consumer goods multinational on Friday. The company had announced in March last this…
More liquidity is being added on to the Chinese economy which is showing signs of slowing down even as the economy also prepares to face the negative outcome of the trade war that it is embroiled in with the United States. The attempts by the Chinese authorities to cut down on the very high levels…
The Fiji national greeting “Bula” has been allegedly wrongly trademarked by a US company and the tiny nation is fighting back against the company for remedy alleging that the act was “tone-deaf and wrong”. The allegation is against a chain of bars and cafes in Florida that also serves a mildly narcotic drink called Kava…
Following the filing of a fraud case against the Chairman and Chief Executive of the electric car maker Tesla Elon Musk by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), there was a 13 per cent drop in the shares of the company over worries of investors about the future of Musk. The fear among investors…
According to claims by American researchers, they have managed to identify a new material that would allow greater efficiency in conversion of sunlight into electricity compared to the conventional technologies now used such as silicon and this can form the basis of a development of next-generation solar cells in the near future. . The unique…
Australia’s peak industry group has warned that “systemic weakness or vulnerability” could be created that would be open to exploitation by the proposed legislations made by Peter Dutton which proposes to increase the capabilities of the government for surveillance into telecommunication devices by injecting spyware risks. This was said by the Australian Industry Group in…
Following a funding round that yielded $50 million, the market valuation of the British cybersecurity start-up Darktrace touched $1.65 billion. With backing from existing investors KKR and TenEleven Ventures, European private equity firm Vitruvian Partners led the most recent investment round in the company. Detection and countering of cyber threats is done through the use…
Twitter is attempting to eliminate the use of dehumanizing language on its platform which comprises of a huge part of its platform. But the company is not planning to engage in a complete makeover of the platform and start from scratch once again. Rather, the company is hoping that implementation of the new policy would…
Chip making giant Qualcomm has again raised allegations against Apple Inc of decamping with “vast swaths” of confidential information and trade secrets of the company and then the iPhone maker has also shared the same with Intel to allow the Qualcomm’s chip maker to enhance the modems made by Intel which are fitted into Apple’s…
