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China's Huawei Technologies reported modest annual profit growth for 2020 as overseas revenues declined due to disruption caused by the pandemic and the company's placement on a U.S. export blacklist.

Dozens of Black executives at U.S. companies, including Merck & Co Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Frazier, are calling on corporations to push back against a wave of new restrictive voting-rights bills, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

REUTERS: S&P 500 futures were flat on Wednesday, as investors awaited details of how President Joe Biden would fund a massive infrastructure plan, while Wall Street headed for its fourth straight quarterly gain on signs of a strong economic rebound. The US$3 trillion-US$4 trillion package will ...

DIGITAL wealth platform and adviser Endowus has completed its first round of Series A funding with S$23 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and with participation from Softbank Ventures Asia.

NEW YORK: McDonald's rolled out its new Crispy Chicken Sandwich in February. Wendy's is selling Crispy Chicken Nuggets. And chains like Shake Shack are known for having some of the fast-food industry's crispiest french fries. With delivery and to-go orders soaring during the pandemic, marketing ...

DUBAI: Global airline industry body IATA said on Wednesday (Mar 31) a digital travel pass for COVID-19 test results and vaccine certificates will be launched on the Apple platform in mid-April. The digital travel pass, currently in the testing phase, had been planned to be launched by the end...

TOKYO: Hitachi said on Wednesday (Mar 31) it will buy US software company GlobalLogic for US$9.6 billion, including repayment of debt, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate pivots from electronics hardware to digital services. The acquisition is part of Hitachi's ongoing business portfolio ...

Alphabet Inc's Google has reached licensing deals with over 600 news outlets around the world and is seeing a "huge increase" in users requesting more content from specific publications as part of a new program, it said on Wednesday.

Amazon.com Inc's landmark union election was set to resume Wednesday morning with a second session of reviewing ballots from employees in Alabama, who are deciding whether to organize one of the company's U.S. warehouses for the first time.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina said it has put out a fire that had engulfed part of its 125,000 barrel per day refinery in Balongan, West Java and had begun making preparations to restart the plant. The fire broke out just after midnight on Monday (Mar 29), forcing...