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General Motors Co staked its claim in the growing electric delivery vehicle business on Tuesday, with Chief Executive Mary Barra outlining plans for its first BrightDrop commercial vans to be delivered to FedEx by year-end.

The Google News Initiative on Tuesday launched a global open fund to fight misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, worth up to US$3 million.

Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate and major donor to Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, has died, his casino said on Tuesday. He was 87.

Social media firms are entitled to make their own decisions about content moderation but must be accountable, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump's suspension from Twitter.

NAIROBI: Africa's education and financial services sectors offer the best opportunities in the post-COVID-19 period, as the pandemic speeds up a shift into digital ways of living and working, two prominent investors said on Tuesday. "Digital infrastructure businesses at this point in time are ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who was knighted for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide Web, wants to re-make cyberspace once again.

US private equity giant Blackstone Group is planning to buy Lucasfilm's iconic Singapore facility, The Sandcrawler, at an indicative price of nearly S$175.8 million, The Business Times (BT) has learnt.

US private equity giant Blackstone Group is planning to buy Lucas Real Estate Singapore's iconic facility, The Sandcrawler, at an indicative price of nearly S$175.8 million, The Business Times (BT) has learnt.

Deutsche Bank will not do business in the future with U.S. President Donald Trump or his companies in the wake of his supporters' deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, the New York Times reported.

PARIS: French auto giant Renault reported on Tuesday (Jan 12) that sales by volume slumped 21.3 per cent last year to 2.9 million vehicles in a market down 14.2 per cent due to the coronavirus pandemic. The fall was "principally due to the company's large exposure to countries which...