SYDNEY: Australia on Friday (Feb 12) moved a step closer to introducing pioneering legislation that would force tech giants to pay for sharing news content, a move that could change how people worldwide experience the Internet. Here is a look at what the proposed rules are, why companies such...
North American cannabis companies rocketed in value in recent days - before plunging on Thursday - as the Reddit forums behind a month of frenzied stock market trading stoked interest in a sector booming on the back of expectations of decriminalization.
SINGAPORE: The bulk of Singapore's economy is expected to recover this year after last year's drubbing from the COVID-19 pandemic. Some sectors - such as transport, tourism and aviation - may take a longer time to do so, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday (Feb 12). "Last...
Australia will introduce landmark legislation to force Alphabet's Google and Facebook to pay publishers and broadcasters for content next week, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Friday.
PayPal Holdings Inc is not likely to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, the payments processor's Chief Financial Officer John Rainey told CNBC on Thursday.
A U.S. House committee on Thursday approved a proposal to give airlines another US$14 billion in payroll assistance as part of a broader COVID-19 relief package that is working its way through Congress.
Walt Disney Co swung to a surprise quarterly profit on Thursday, as "The Mandalorian" and "Soul" lifted its fast-growing streaming business, outweighing pandemic worries about its hobbled theme park operations.
Indorama Ventures PCL is pushing the United Steelworkers (USW) local union representing about 300 workers at its Port Neches, Texas, petrochemical plant to agree to job cuts, said sources familiar with the matter.
The European Union on Thursday acknowledged a move by the new U.S. government to refrain from imposing additional tariffs on EU goods in a long-running dispute over aircraft tariffs, and said it was ready to work to resolve trade disputes.
In early trading on Friday global markets were holding steady or slipping a bit as investors looked over mixed data and watched for the next catalyst.
