Nigeria's Kaduna state has signed a deal with medical delivery firm Zipline that will allow drone shipment of COVID-19 vaccines without significant state investment in cold-chain storage, the company said on Wednesday.
India has written to Twitter warning it to comply with orders to block accounts and content related to a protest by farmers, a technology ministry source said on Wednesday.
Spotify Technology SA beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as the music streaming company hit 155 million paid subscribers for its premium service.
TOKYO: Japan's COVID-19 tracking application for some smartphone users has had a malfunction since September and has failed to pass on some notifications of suspected contact with people infected with the virus, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry did not say if the problem ...
New passenger car registrations in Germany fell more than 30per cent in January to around 170,000 vehicles, an industry source told Reuters on Wednesday.
Japan's Toyota Motor Corp plans record high global production of 9.2 million vehicles this year, up about 2per cent from 2019's pre-coronavirus output, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.
Shares of videogame retailer GameStop Corp and movie theater operator AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc lost 15per cent and 13.2per cent, respectively, in early U.S. pre-market trading on Wednesday as a social media-driven trading frenzy cooled.
REUTERS: Ant Group Co has agreed on a restructuring plan with Chinese regulators under which the fintech giant will be turned into a financial holding company, according to Bloomberg News. The plan calls for putting all of Ant's businesses into the holding company, including its technology ...
Japanese electronics and media giant Sony Corp raised its full-year profit outlook by one-third and said it was struggling to keep up with pandemic-fuelled demand for the new PlayStation 5 amid a global shortage of semiconductors.
SINGAPORE: Google co-founder Sergey Brin has opened a family office in Singapore to help manage his fortune, making him the latest tycoon to establish a private investment company in the financial hub. The company overseeing the assets of Brin, the world's ninth-richest person with wealth of US$86 ...
