SAN FRANCISCO: A jury in California on Monday (May 13) ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than US$2 billion damages to a couple who sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said. The award was the latest in a series of court defeats for Monsanto over...
DBS' group head of technology and operations David Gledhill is departing the bank to return to the United Kingdom.
FINTECH group Marvelstone Group held a S$135,050 investment in media startup Tech in Asia as at end-2017, which was Marvelstone's single-largest investment. That investment represented "less than one per cent" of Tech in Asia, Willis Wee, CEO and founder of Tech in Asia, told The Business Times...
NASDAQ-LISTED Chinese fintech solutions provider Pintec Technology has made Singapore its international headquarters (HQ) to expand the global business and be closer to its joint venture (JV) partners.
Apple Inc on Monday rolled out a new television-watching app for its devices and some Internet-connected TVs, an effort to gain more revenue from reselling other companies' programming and, later this year, its own original shows.
Slack Technologies, the owner of a popular workplace instant messaging app, plans to go public on June 20, the company said on Monday, a test of investor appetite for loss-making technology stocks in the wake of Uber Technologies Inc's underwhelming market debut.
Bayer said on Monday its Monsanto unit, which is being investigated by French prosecutors for compiling files of influential people such as journalists in France, likely did the same across Europe, suggesting a potentially wider problem.
EssilorLuxottica declared an end to a feud between its French and Italian partners on Monday, saying it would drop all legal proceedings and focus on integrating the eyewear group formed by last year's 54 billion euro (US$61 billion) merger.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit by consumers accusing Apple Inc of monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing them to overpay, rejecting the company's bid to escape claims that its practices violate federal antitrust law.
Oil production capacity could fall to under one percent of global oil demand by the end of the year if OPEC compensates falling production from Iran and Venezuela, leaving oil prices exposed to sharp swings in the event of unplanned outages, analysts say.
