Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Likely To Protect For A ‘Couple Of Years’, Says Its CEO

The new Covid-19 mRNA vaccine developed by the United States based pharmaceutical company Moderna has the potential to offer humans administered with it protection from the disease for a time period that can extend to up to two years, said the company’s chief however according executive on Thursday. However according to analysts and experts, for…

Stellar Christmas Sale Prompts Britain’s Sainsbury’s To Raise Profit Outlook

With people in the United Kingdom being forced to celebrate at home during the festive season because of the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the second wave of the Covid-19, the British supermarket group Sainsbury’s beat its own expectations for trading, prompting the company to raise its profit outlook. In the company’s fiscal…

Investigation Of Nvidia’s $40bn Acquisition Of Arm Initiated By UK Watchdog

The $40bn acquisition of the United Kingdom based chip designer Arm by the American chipmaker Nvidia is being investigated by the competition watchdog of Britain. A call for submission of views on the contentious deal by interested parties before the launch of a formal investigation later this year has been given by the Competition and…

Social media companies freeze Trump’s account as supporters storm U.S. Capitol

With supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump moving into Capitol grounds, tech companies, including Snap Inc, Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc locked their respective accounts of the U.S. President following allegations of China-backed rigging of the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections. Twitter hid and mandated the removal of three of Trump’s tweets “as a result of…

Self-driving software startup Oxbotica raises $47M in latest funding round

On Wednesday, in a statement self-driving software startup Oxbotica stated, it had raised $47 million in its latest funding round led by the venture capital arm of BP, Halma Plc, a health and safety device maker, and Tencent. Oxbotica, an Oxford University spinoff, develops autonomous systems that could be used in a range of vehicles…