LONDON: Britain will keep pushing for a global solution on taxing international digital companies such as Google and Facebook Inc after the United States left negotiations, a spokesman for the British Treasury said on Thursday. "We remain committed to a global solution," the spokesman said. U.S ...
Japanese telco Softbank Corp said on Thursday it led a US$19.5 million funding round in startup Splyt, which helps app operators integrate mobility options with other services, as it seeks to build its own super app.
WHILE equities, foreign exchange and bonds are primarily traded electronically today, the trading of corporate loans have remained largely a manual and relationships-based exercise.
Maintenance firms and spare parts producers who keep airplanes running are bracing for a decline of up to 75per cent in sales this year - and more pain to follow - as airlines park or retire thousands of aircraft due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google's market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry's failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other ...
A second wave of layoffs amid weak demand and fractured supply chains is likely keeping new U.S. applications for unemployment benefits elevated, supporting views that the economy faces a long and difficult recovery from the COVID-19 recession.
Australia's consumer watchdog said on Thursday it had concerns that Alphabet Inc-owned Google's planned US$2.1 billion (£1.6 billion) acquisition of fitness tracker company Fitbit may hinder competition in digital advertising and health markets.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s central bank has shortlisted 14 applicants for up to five digital bank licences on offer in the city’s biggest banking liberalisation in two decades. The shortlist, out of the 21 applications received, comprises five digital full bank applicants and nine digital wholesale ...
Asian stocks and Wall Street futures fell on Thursday as spiking coronavirus cases in some U.S. states and China crushed hopes of a quick global economic comeback from the pandemic.
SYDNEY: Australia's unemployment rate rose to its highest level in two decades last month, official data showed on Thursday (Jun 18), as hundreds of thousands more people lost their jobs amid pandemic-induced shutdowns. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the May unemployment rate ticked ...
