As per a report from German news magazine Der Spiegel, Russia’s GRU military intelligence may have gained access to many e-mails from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 cyber attack on Germany’s parliament. A spokesman for the German government had no immediate comment. Federal criminal police along with Germany’s federal cyber agency…
On Friday, Bloomberg reported citing an e-mail from Tesla Inc saying, the U.S. luxury carmaker plans on reopening its sole U.S. car plant in Fremont, California as early as sometime today. The development comes in the wake of California setting rules which allow state manufacturers to re-open the coronavirus lockdown from Friday. Tesla did not…
On Thursday, according to a report from the Financial Times, in a deal worth $29.57 billion (24 billion pounds), the British units of Liberty Global Plc and Telefónica SA will merge with Telefónica SA. Both companies are expected to announce the merger deal on Thursday following five months of negotiations, said the FT’s report citing…
According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, the U.S. Department of Commerce is close to introduce a new rule that would allow U.S. companies to work with Huawei Technologies on setting standards for the next generation 5G networks. In 2019, following rhe U.S. Commerce Department blacklisting the company, engineers in some U.S. technology…
Blackstone Group Inc and CVC Capital Partners are holding independent talks with Italy’s Serie A soccer league, with both private equity firms keen to investment in the league. CVC is in talks to purchase a 20% stake for $2.17 billion (2 billion euros), which values the league at 10 billion euros, said the Financial Times…
On Wednesday, Estonia’s Bolt, a ride-sharing service provider, launched its own electric scooter model with the aim of launching the scooter service in more than 45 cities this summer. The Estonian company has grabbed business from Uber in many major African and Eastern Europe cities. Bolt has more than 30 million users in over 35…
Adam Neumann, WeWork’s co-founder has filed a lawsuit against SoftBank Group Corp and against its Vision Fund for terminating a $3 billion tender offer to the office-sharing startup’s shareholders. In October, the tender was part of a $9.6 billion financial rescue package that SoftBank had agreed to, following which WeWork gave it control of the…
In a statement Swiss drugmaker Roche stated, it has an emergency approval for an antibody test to check whether people have ever been infected with the coronavirus, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company is aiming to ramp up production by more than 100% for testing kits from the current 50 million…
According to a report from the Telegraph, U.S. electric carmaker Tesla Inc has applied for a license to supply electricity in the United Kingdom. The report citing a company source states, the purpose of the license could be to introduce the company’s Autobidder platform. Tesla’s application did not shed light on why it applied for…
Indonesia’s largest e-commerce platform, Tokopedia said, it is investigating an attempted cyber attack and claims that details of millions of its users had been leaked online. “We found that there had been an attempt to steal data from Tokopedia users,” said Tokopedia’s spokesman. “However, Tokopedia ensures that crucial information such as passwords remains successfully protected…
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