Uber Technologies Inc will let employees work half their hours from wherever they want as part of its revamped return-to-office strategy, the transport app company plans to announce on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Oil prices slipped for a second day on Tuesday on worries about slower fuel demand growth as outbreaks of the highly contagious COVID-19 variant Delta sparked new mobility restrictions around the world.
A South Korean lawmaker leading parliamentary discussion of the country's second extra budget of this year said on Tuesday around 36 trillion won (US$32 billion) of supplementary spending is on the way to aid businesses hit by the pandemic.
Japan's jobless rate rose to 3.0per cent in May, while the availability of jobs was unchanged from the previous month, government data showed on Tuesday.
REUTERS: QAD Inc said on Monday private equity firm Thoma Bravo will buy the enterprise software maker for about US$2 billion, the latest go-private deal by the software investor. QAD shareholders will get US$87.50 per share in cash, a premium of about 20per cent to the company's last close...
Star stock picker Cathie Wood's ARK Invest filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to create a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF), the latest fund manager attempting to cash in on investors' growing interest in cryptocurrencies.
BANGKOK: Owners of eateries in Bangkok and nearby provinces were left frustrated after a ban on dining-in was reimposed on Monday (Jun 28), a week after the government relaxed COVID-19 control measures. The ban was announced late Saturday night after Thailand’s daily case numbers rose above 2,000 ...
E-commerce company Etsy Inc said on Monday it had acquired Elo7 — a Brazilian online marketplace specializing in made-to-order products — in a US$217 million cash transaction in a first move to expand into Latin America.
SINGAPORE: Homegrown property service firms are venturing overseas in pursuit of new growth in the region, unfazed by new waves of infections amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also a move that will give buyers in Singapore greater access to overseas properties and better technology, said the firms ...
Nearly 10 years ago big tech companies like Google promised a future of autonomous vehicles but it’s 2021 and there’s no proof of this promise yet. A kinetics professor explains why.
