BP has acquired a majority stake in the largest U.S. carbon offset developer, Finite Carbon, the oil major said on Wednesday, as part of its climate goals and to develop a new revenue stream.
TOKYO: A major Japanese cosmetics firm faced online boycott calls on Wednesday (Dec 16) after its CEO used a racial slur for Koreans, and boasted his firm was "pure Japanese". DHC's Yoshiaki Yoshida made the comments in a message on the company's website in which he attacked rival Suntory,...
TOKYO: A major Japanese cosmetics firm faced online boycott calls on Wednesday (Dec 16) after its CEO used a racial slur for Koreans, and boasted his firm was "pure Japanese". DHC's Yoshiaki Yoshida made the comments in a message on the company's website in which he attacked rival Suntory,...
British fashion retailer Superdry said on Wednesday its co-founder and interim Chief Executive Officer Julian Dunkerton would take the top job on a permanent basis and appointed industry veteran Silvana Bonello as its chief operating officer.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) on Wednesday said it plans to spend US$150 million to set up a global technology centre in Hyderabad.
SINGAPORE: Lab-grown chicken meat will make its debut at 1880, a private members’ club in Robertson Quay, in a culinary first this weekend after the company behind the product announced its inaugural sale on Wednesday (Dec 16). US start-up Eat Just announced earlier this month that its cultured ......
LONDON: Some of Europe's tech companies are preparing to speed up listing plans early next year to grab some of the billions of dollars of investor cash that has already fuelled a record-breaking run of tech IPOs in the United States this year. Tech sector valuations, already red hot...
SINGAPORE: Zoom Video Communications announced on Wednesday (Dec 16) that it will open a new research and development (R&D) centre in Singapore, and it will hire “hundreds of key engineering headcount” here. The expansion “represents a growing strategic investment in the country, where Zoom has ...
Investors are betting that longer-dated Treasury yields are headed higher in the near term, reflecting expectations that the Federal Reserve is unlikely at its meeting on Wednesday to reconfigure its purchases to tamp down a rise in longer-dated yields.
An Australian regulator sued Facebook Inc on Wednesday accusing it of collecting user data without permission, building on government efforts around the world to rein in the social network.
