According to news report published in Japan, there are concerns at the Japanese auto major Nissan that its relationship with the French auto giant Renault have turned dysfunctional following the arrest and ouster of Carlos Ghosn, the boss of both the companies, and as such executives at the Japanese company have contemplated the potential of…
As per a report from the Sunday Times, the U.S. government is planning on permanently bringing a stop to its civilian drone program due to the drones being, at least partly, manufactured in China. The FT reported citing two sources briefed on the plans as saying, the U.S. Department of the Interior is weighing its…
A fine of $5.4m is planned to be sought from Boeing by US regulators over charges that the company had “knowingly” installed faulty parts on its 737 Max planes. In recent times, there was revelation of internal messages of the company which resulted in questions being raised about the safety of the 737 Max planes…
After the United States decided to impose tariffs on Europe-made planes with a resultant threat that the costs of the planes would increase for those US customers who has purchased aircraft from the European plane maker Airbus, the company has announced that it had decided to increase production of its A320 narrow-body jetliners that are…
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…
On Friday, BMW stated, it has sold 2.52 million Rolls-Royce, BMW, and Mini vehicles in 2019, topping the premium category car group, ahead of Daimler. On Thursday, Daimler had reported that it had sold 2.34 million Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in 2019 – its ninth consecutive year of record sales. In a statement BMW said in…
With Boeing Co releasing hundreds of internal messages surrounding the development of its simulators as well as its 737 MAX jet that it grounded in March 2019 following two fatal crashes, there has been a firestorm of outrage from U.S. lawmakers. In an exchange of instant messages between two Boeing employees in April 2017, one…
In a statement, Facebook Inc stated, it has tweaked its approach towards political ads and has introduced limited changes, which includes an option for users to turn off certain ad-targeting tools. Facebook has defied critics’ demands of barring political ads in its platform which often spew out fake news. Facebook, the world’s biggest social network,…
