Alphabet Inc's Google is set to buy Japanese smartphone payment startup Pring for more than 20 billion yen (US$181.9 million), the Nikkei financial daily reported on Thursday.
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and French central bank Banque de France announced on Thursday that they have successfully completed a wholesale cross-border payment and settlement experiment using central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Britain's competition watchdog said on Thursday it was considering launching an investigation into Motorola Solutions Inc's Airwave network that is used by emergency services in the country.
TOKYO: Panasonic Corp's new CEO on Thursday said the Japanese company's battery supply relationship with Tesla Inc remains strong even after it sold all its shares in the U.S. electric carmaker. "The sale has not hurt the relationship with Tesla," Yuki Kusumi said at a press roundtable, when ......
Asian firms received their smallest upgrade in 12 months in June, hit by a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the region which prompted new restrictions on people's movement to curb fresh coronavirus outbreaks.
France's anti-trust watchdog will make a decision in the coming days over a preliminary deal between Google and some French publishers over paying for news content, said the watchdog's head Isabelle de Silva on Thursday.
LG Chem Ltd and its wholly-owned battery subsidiary LG Energy Solution (LGES) plan to invest a combined 15.1 trillion won (US$13.17 billion) in South Korea this decade, LGES said on Thursday.
Panasonic Corp's new CEO on Thursday said the Japanese company's relationship with Tesla as a battery supplier remained strong even after it sold all its shares in the U.S. electric carmaker.
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc sold 33,155 China-made vehicles, including those for export, in June, China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Thursday.
The Bank of Japan is expected to slash this fiscal year's economic growth forecast in fresh quarterly projections due out next week, sources say, as prospects of another state of emergency for Tokyo threaten to dent consumption.
