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REUTERS: Clinical trial service providers report a spike in demand for virtual trials as pharmaceutical companies try to prevent the coronavirus outbreak from derailing their drug rollouts. With many trial participants isolating themselves at home, drugmakers are forced to choose whether to skip ...

REUTERS: From Africa to Asia and Latin America, emerging countries disproportionately bruised by the COVID-19 pandemic are allowing some key industries to start back up in a bid to soften the economic blow. This tentative unlocking highlights the balancing act for developing nations as they seek ...

Goldman Sachs said on Friday it expects iPhone shipment to drop 36per cent during the third quarter due to coronavirus-related lockdowns around the world and downgraded Apple Inc stock to "sell".

BEIJING: Didi Chuxing, China's biggest ride-hailing firm which counts SoftBank as an investor, aims to complete 100 million orders a day and 800 million monthly active users globally by 2022, its chief executive Cheng Wei said. Didi also aims to achieve an 8per cent penetration rate in China's ......

SINGAPORE: Companies should pay cleaning service providers fairly during the COVID-19 outbreak, said the Government as well as trade bodies on Friday (Apr 17), in an advisory to maintain the sector's viability.  In the advisory, the Ministry of Manpower, National Environment Agency, National ...

Activist investors say telecommunications pioneer AT&T Inc won't take their calls for its upcoming annual meeting, reinforcing their concerns that the shift of the gatherings to cyberspace due to the COVID-19 pandemic would restrict shareholder input.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury is proposing a government support programme to help airlines convert their fleets to more environmentally friendly planes, according to an interview given by Faury to Der Spiegel magazine which was published on Friday.

The Trump administration is seeking to ease a severe cash crunch in the drilling industry by raising loan limits available under a coronavirus stimulus package and by barring lenders from discriminating against drillers, according to Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.

Companies will be able to hold their annual shareholders' meeting over the phone or online during the coronavirus pandemic under a promised new law, Britain's business ministry and accounting watchdog said on Friday.

The COVID-19 pandemic arrived just as Respond Software CEO and co-founder Mike Armistead was trying to sell automated cyber security software to new clients. Most of them are no longer in a buying mood. So Respond Software, a 50-employee, venture-backed startup, applied for about US$1 million in ...