TOKYO: Nintendo reported on Monday (Feb 1) that its profit for the first three fiscal quarters nearly doubled as people around the world stayed home for the pandemic and turned to playing games. The Japanese video-game maker behind the Super Mario and Pokemon franchises said its April-December ...
SYDNEY: The Australian prime minister said on Monday (Feb 1) that Microsoft was confident that it could fill the void if Google carried out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia. A Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search...
DUBLIN: Ryanair said on Monday (Feb 1) it may lose close to €1 billion (US$1.21 billion) in its current financial year, by far its worst ever performance, but Europe's largest low-cost carrier said the crisis would create significant growth opportunities. The Irish airline said it expects to post ...
TOKYO: Japan's Nintendo on Monday (Feb 1) hiked the full-year sales forecast for its Switch console to 26.5 million units from 24 million units previously after a bumper end to the year for the hit device. The Kyoto-based firm said it sold 24.1 million hardware units in the first nine months...
Shares in listed companies linked to China's HNA Group slumped on Monday, after the troubled conglomerate disclosed that its creditors had applied for its bankruptcy and that nearly US$10 billion had been embezzled by shareholders of its three units.
REUTERS: A Chinese copyright association has asked Kuaishou Technology to delete 10,000 videos it said infringes intellectual property rules, days before the online short-video firm is set to list its shares in Hong Kong this week. The China Audio-Video Copyright Association (CAVCA), a non ...
Global semiconductor sales rose 6.5per cent overall in 2020, as a recovery during the last three months of the year helped offset a sharp dropoff in March and April, when pandemic stay-home orders rolled out around the world.
TOKYO: Private social audio app Clubhouse is growing rapidly in Japan and now ranks first among free apps on Apple's App Store in a test of its international viability following its latest funding round. The San Francisco-based app, which users must be invited to join, reached a valuation of...
SINGAPORE: Singapore wants to attract more market-leading manufacturing firms to anchor their operations in the country, as it works towards its new goal to grow the manufacturing sector by 50 per cent over the next 10 years. Having top companies set up shop here will enable Singapore to be...
SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) have launched an investigation into various companies under CoAssets Ltd for possible regulation breaches. The joint investigation stems from complaints and feedback ...
