On Tuesday, Revolut Ltd, a British fintech firm, launched its banking app and debit cards for U.S. consumers in a step aimed at increasing its userbase beyond that of just the UK and Europe. Revolut, which started in 2015, has added 10 million users and has raised $836 million in funding till date. In a…
According to sources, Elite hackers tried to hack into the World Health Organization earlier this month in what is a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks this month. According to Flavio Aggio, WHO’s Chief Information Security Officer, the hack was unsuccessful. He warned that the agency is seeing an increase in hacking attacks on itself…
In a statement, Alphabet Inc’s Google disclosed, over the last three days, it had surveyed a few users on their health at the request of Carnegie Mellon University researchers who are aiming to forecast the spread of Wuhan coronavirus infections. Google’s Opinion Rewards app, which exchanges responses to surveys from Google and its clients for…
The rapid molecular test for point-of-care patients developed by Cepheid has been authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on an emergency basis and now can be used for detecting coronavirus in just 45 minutes This test is the first of its kind that can be used entirely at the point of…
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said on Saturday that UK companies should defer publishing of the preliminary financial statements by at least two weeks to enable them to better understand how their business is being affected by the coronavirus pandemic. “The FCA will be writing tonight to companies it is aware were intending to publish preliminary…
Tens of millions of American in the states of New York state, Illinois and Connecticut were directed to stay home on Friday – following a similar order by California as a part of the social distancing measures being implied in the United States to try and prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic through person…
Supermarkets and retailers in the United Kingdom are now hiring thousands because a sudden increase in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. After sudden and huge increase in demand resulted in empty shelves, announcement hiring thousands of staff to cope with the demand was made by UK supermarkets and retailers Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl.…
A check on Apple’s website on Friday revealed, Cupertino is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores to two handsets per person. The measure is applicable to many countries including the United States and China. The development comes in the wake of the Apple closing all of its brick-and-mortar stores outside China, even…
In a statement Tesla Inc said, starting from March 24 it will suspend production at its California vehicle factory so as to comply with local orders aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. Tesla’s New York factory will also temporarily suspend production, while operations at its Nevada plant will continue. “Despite taking all known health…
Anthony Levandowski, who has been closely associated with advancing self-driving car technology in the last decade, has agreed to plead guilty for taking sensitive documents from Google, his former employer, before he joined rival Uber Technologies Inc. As part of the plea deal with federal prosecutors, he will serve no more than 30 months in…
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