A new body that will deal with the thorny questions revolving around the future of transportation including self-driving cars and electric vehicles us being launched by a group of business leaders and public policy experts. The new body is called the Commission on the Future of Mobility and was launched last week. A new regulatory…
The novel coronavirus pandemic has hit the global aviation industry the hardest with demand for air travel past historic lows. Airlines are struggling to cope up with the decline in air travel which in turn has affected the other industries in the aviation sector. A reflection of this as seen in Japan where the plans…
International coffee chain Starbucks said that it expected a strong growth in its sale next year, the company said. The company expects a 17 per cent and 22 per cent jump in same-store sales in the United States and the Americas respectively for next year. And a yet larger – between 25 per cent and…
Marriott Hotels chain has been fined £18.4m by the data privacy watchdog of the United Kingdom for a major data breach in which data of up to 339 million guests could have been compromised. The cyber attack could have resulted in names, contact information, and passport details of millions of guests being stolen or mishandled,…
Black franchise owners of McDonald’s accused the fast-food giant of racial discrimination for steering them to underperforming stores and filed a lawsuit that could potentially run into billions of dollars. The law firm representing 52 Black former franchisees who filed a similar lawsuit on August 31 filed the proposed class action and it as led…
Facing the largest antitrust lawsuit in more than two decades as well as an escalating criticism against it of censorship, United States based search engine giant Google is currently doing well. For the three months ending in September, a growth in revenue of 14 per cent year on year at $46.17 billion was reported by…
In a statement chip supplier Marvell Technology Group Ltd said, it has agreed to acquire Inphi Corp in a cash and stock deal worth $10 billion aimed at broadening its footprint in the 5G network infrastructure and in the data centers space. While Marvell supplies chips that move data around on copper-based cables, its peer…
In a significant development, for the very first time, developers across the globe are testing the usage of hydrogen to power ships. The development comes as the maritime industry races to find technologies to slash carbon emissions; there is also a growing confidence that LNG can be used safely commercially. The United Nations has set…
Driven by a surge in demand for luxury cars by customers in the Chinese market helped the German auto giant Volkswagen AG to offset a decline of 1.1 per cent in delivery of vehicles because of the currently on going novel coronavirus pandemic. It also helped the largest automotive company of the world in terms…
Even though the energy company warned of “significant uncertainty” because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, its dividend was increased by Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday after the company easily beat third quarter profit forecasts. After having cut its dividend in April – which was the first time that the Anglo-Dutch company had done so since…
