REUTERS: Apple Inc said on Monday nasal swab maker COPAN Diagnostics has shipped 15 million COVID-19 sample collection kits to hospitals in California, Texas and other U.S. states, bolstered by manufacturing help from the tech giant. Apple awarded US$10 million https://www.reuters.com/article ...
Bitcoin fell more than 6per cent on Monday after surging to a record US$58,354 a day earlier, as a selloff in global equities curbed risk appetite.
U.S. President Joe Biden will launch changes on Monday to the main U.S. coronavirus aid program for small businesses to try to reach smaller, minority-owned firms and sole proprietors left behind in previous rounds of aid.
Facebook took down the pages of Myanmar's state-run television on Monday, a day after the channel had warned anti-coup protesters against taking action and said that confrontation could put lives at risk.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian long-haul budget airline AirAsia X (AAX) has proposed a separate restructuring programme for its aircraft lessors that aims to tackle their concerns, citing a chance to recover rental losses, a document seen by Reuters shows. The airline, an affiliate of AirAsia Group, has ...
SYDNEY: Australia's push to regulate tech giants has become a power struggle between two of the world's most powerful men, with Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg locked in a generational battle for media dominance. Efforts in Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news has garnered ...
TOKYO: SoftBank's US$100 billion Vision Fund is poised to have a new number-one asset in its portfolio with the upcoming flotation of top South Korean e-retailer Coupang, furthering a turnaround that has seen the fund yo-yo from huge losses to record profit. The US$50 billion target valuation that ......
British Airways-owner IAG said it raised total liquidity by 2.45 billion pounds (US$3.4 billion), reaching final agreement for a 2 billion pound loan, and through a deal to defer 450 million pounds of pension deficit contributions.
SYDNEY: Global tech firms in Australia unveiled a new code of practice on Monday (Feb 22) to curb the spread of disinformation online, following pressure from the government. The lobbying group DIGI - representing Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, TikTok and Redbubble - committed under the ...
GLOBAL logistics property player GLP has obtained its first sustainability-linked (SL) loan of US$658 million from 10 undisclosed banks that participated in the deal.
