Germany's competition authority is investigating Alphabet Inc's Google News Showcase, a platform which makes news available on the tech giant's news website, it said on Friday.
HONG KONG: A former top UBS banker in Hong Kong, Cai Hongping, has had a five-year ban from the financial industry for misconduct on an initial public offering overturned after a review, the city's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said on Friday. In 2019 the SFC, in the culmination...
President Joe Biden's strategy to make the United States a powerhouse in electric vehicles will include boosting domestic recycling of batteries to reuse lithium and other metals, according to government officials.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Wall Street Journal that the agency is investigating about 100 different types of ransomware, many of which trace back to actors in Russia.
The Kremlin on Friday described as "emotional" remarks by the head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that Russia is a haven for hackers, the RIA news agency reported.
South Korean prosecutors are seeking a 50 million won (US$45,000) fine for Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee over an allegation of unlawful use of a prescription sedative, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
The European Commission on Friday sought to clarify the scope and liability of revised copyright rules adopted last year in an effort to defuse criticism from France, Poland, EU broadcasters and internet activists.
EU antitrust regulators opened on Fridan an investigation into Facebook's marketplace to see whether the world's largest social network breaches EU rules by using advertising data from advertisers to compete with them in classified ads.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday a lack of due consideration to heterogeneity in setting climate risk standards would do more harm than good.
China is pushing China Huarong Asset Management Co to sell non-core assets, two people involved in the revamp told Reuters, while considering offering an implicit guarantee of the liabilities of the debt-laden bad-debt manager.
