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Saudi Aramco said on Wednesday the government had no plans to impose private partnerships on the oil giant, after it launched a programme to support private investment in the kingdom as part of Saudi Arabia's diversification push.

India is offering more than US$1 billion in cash to each semiconductor company that sets up manufacturing units in the country as it seeks to build on its smartphone assembly industry and strengthen its electronics supply chain, two officials said.

Oracle Corp announced on Wednesday it will migrate companies' most complicated computer programs to its cloud for free as it tries to catch a new wave of potential cloud-computing clients by aiming to save them time and money.

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 ...