Oil hovered near US$70 a barrel on Friday, supported by production cuts by major oil producers and optimism about a demand recovery in the second half of the year.
A U.S. judge dismissed large parts of a lawsuit accusing Zoom Video Communications Inc of violating users' privacy rights by sharing personal information with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn, and letting malevolent intruders join Zoom meetings in a practice called Zoombombing.
The Texas power regulator on Friday voted to remove about US$1 billion in service fees levied on grid users but took no action on petitions asking it to cut high power prices during a mid-February cold snap.
The S&P 500 slipped on Friday after hitting an all-time high in the prior session, as a spike in U.S. bond yields revived inflation worries and dented appetite for high-growth stocks.
U.S. airline passenger traffic fell 63.3per cent in January, as the industry recorded its worst month since September amid COVID-19 concerns, the U.S. Transportation Department said Friday.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on Friday became the first high-profile Republican lawmaker to support a growing push to unionize Amazon.com Inc workers in Alabama, after several Democratic lawmakers visited the company's facility last week.
Britain's cyber security body urged organisations to install the latest Microsoft Exchange Server updates as a matter of urgency on Friday, after the company became aware of flaws that have led to large-scale access to the email server.
The Texas power regulator on Friday voted to remove about US$1 billion in service fees levied on grid users but took no action on petitions asking it to cut high power prices during a mid-February cold snap.
China's Ant Group Chief Executive Officer Simon Hu has unexpectedly resigned amid a regulatory-driven overhaul of the financial technology giant's business, the first top management exit since a scuppered US$37 billion initial public offering.
A Dutch court has dismissed claims by a group of British Uber drivers that sought access to the data that the ride hailing company collects about them.
