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Who needs expensive lunches at glitzy hotels and fancy restaurants to court investors for bond deals or the sale of new shares on the stock exchange?

ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz, one of the company’s earliest products aimed at the global stage.

The Bank of Japan is likely to maintain its projection that the economy will gradually recover in the latter half of this year, four sources familiar with its thinking said, heightening the chance it will forgo bold monetary easing steps at this month's rate review.

SINGAPORE: Singapore consumers will be able to buy wholesale seafood at a single location in several years' time, amid a consolidation of the country's fishery ports. This was announced on Friday (Jun 5) by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA), which is also embarking on a study of the fresh...

SINGAPORE: Singapore retail sales plunged 40.5 per cent year-on-year in April as the COVID-19 pandemic and “circuit breaker” measures shuttered non-essential businesses across the country, data released by the Department of Statistics (SingStat) showed on Friday (Jun 5). The fall is the biggest ...

Self-driving technology company Cruise, a unit of General Motors Co’s, is trying to poach engineers from struggling rival Zoox Inc, according to an email sent to Zoox engineers by the founder of Cruise this week.

Investors expecting a sudden surge in bitcoin's price, after it underwent a technical adjustment three weeks ago that reduced the rate at which new coins are generated, may have to wait a few months, or perhaps a few years.

SINGAPORE: About 3,800 companies closed down in April, comparable to the average of 3,700 recorded in the same month over the past five years, said Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Chee Hong Tat on Friday (Jun 5). However, business cessation could see an “uptick” in the coming...

Twitter Inc has disabled U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign tribute video to George Floyd on its platform, citing a copyright complaint.

The U.S. unemployment rate likely shot up to almost 20per cent in May, a new post World War Two record, with millions more losing their jobs, exposing the horrific human toll from the COVID-19 crisis.