No single digital currency will dominate global transactions if central banks strive to enhance their own settlement systems, a senior Bank of Japan official said, brushing aside fears China's rapid progress on a digital yuan could upend markets.
Ford Motor Co said on Friday that its China vehicle sales rose 25per cent between July and September this year from a year earlier to 164,352 units.
Uber Technologies said on Friday it will invest more than US$150 million in a joint venture and partnership with South Korea's SK Telecom Co Ltd , which is proposing to split off its mobility business.
U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign's Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday, causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like "speech police" and vowing to hold Twitter responsible.
Twitter Inc said on Thursday its social networking site was down for many users due to an inadvertent change it had made to its internal systems but the platform seemed to be returning to normal after about an hour and half of outage.
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter service appeared to be restored on Thursday (Oct 15) evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide. The outage marked a new setback for the network, which is fending off ......
SINGAPORE: Singapore's September non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose 5.9 per cent from a year earlier, driven mainly by electronics shipments, official data showed on Friday (Oct 16), but were slower than forecasts. That compared with a 7.7 per cent increase in August, and lower than the 10.8 per ...
Four Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday sent a letter to Amazon.com Inc's Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, demanding answers over the company's alleged moves to track and monitor employees and limit unionization efforts.
REUTERS: Asian stocks came under pressure on Friday as investors sought safe havens, such as the U.S. dollar, fearing that a resurgence in coronavirus cases and a lack of additional U.S. fiscal stimulus would hobble the world economy. U.S. President Donald Trump's offer on Thursday to raise the ......
A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Thursday said she was "not inclined" to reverse her decision blocking the government from barring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering WeChat for download in U.S. app stores.
