Tag: Technology
Pressure mounts on the labour market due to lockdown.
As the labour market is under pressure due to lockdown. The unemployment rate is expected to recover in the short term. Datuk Seri chief...
All payments for Govt services to be made on a cashless...
Once again Ministry of Finance, Malaysia is quite popular lately by the decision of Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz - Finance Minister(MoF), he...
Automakers seen to bear the brunt of chip storage.
The semiconductor chip shortage is putting the brakes on automakers. Due to chip shortage, automakers industries are not able to complete the needs of...
Amazon to include Pakistan Sellers on its seller’s list
Amazon is known as the king of e-commerce. It offers great potential for international trade through its online selling stores. Many countries (102) are...
Electric car maker Tesla secures billion-worth loan to finance Shanghai Gigafactory
Tesla Inc. has confirmed entering into agreements with Chinese lenders for a secured term loan facility of up to 9 billion yuan ($1.29 billion)...
Apple’s acquisition of weather app Dark Sky is sad news for...
The popular weather predicting app Dark Sky announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it has been acquired by Apple, noting that it...
Japanese tech giant Softbank launches 5G service
The Tokyo-based multinational technology company, SoftBank Corp., has joined the ultra-fast 5G race in Japan as it officially launched its wireless offerings last week.
It...
Minecraft Releases Free Education Lessons During Lockdown
Minecraft's owner Microsoft announced on 24 March 2020 that it is releasing a new "Education" category inside the game's Marketplace, giving away a dozen interactive…
South Korean exports jump as employees worldwide work from home
The outbound shipments of teleconferencing equipment and components from South Korea have soared to 10% in the past weeks as many employees around the...
Volkswagen hit with $34 Billion fine over diesel scandal; shares plan...
The world’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, disclosed that it will spend a sum of $34.69 billion equivalent to 31.3 billion euros to pay fines and...
Internet speed slows down globally due to coronavirus
Billions of people around the world have been raising concerns over the limitations of internet speed, connectivity and capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The growing...
Tesla eyes building a Cybertruck factory in central USA
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said that he is searching for a site in the central United States that could serve as...
Mobile games download spike amid coronavirus quarantine
The demand for mobile games has surged as millions of people in China are quarantined and stuck indoors amid fears of the spreading coronavirus...
Apple will pay $500M in iPhone-throttling settlement
United States’ technology giant Apple has agreed to pay up to half a billion dollars to settle litigation claiming that it slowed down old...
2 South Korean electronics giants close plants due to virus cases
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and LG Innotek have separately announced the temporary closure of their manufacturing plants in South Korea after workers tested positive...
Facebook files lawsuit against marketing firm for illegal access of users’...
World’s largest social media site Facebook sued a marketing company named oneAudience, that it accused of “improperly” accessing users’ personal information without their authorization.
Facebook...
Tech giant Apple to open first store in India next year
Apple has been given the green light to open its first Indian store by 2021 after it received a special approval from the Government...
Huawei’s lawsuit challenging US purchase ban rejected
Chinese technology giant Huawei loss its legal challenge of the constitutionality of a US law that restricts federal agencies from purchasing its products.
A US judge...
Nintendo hit by coronavirus; production gets delayed
Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has confirmed feeling the heat of the novel coronavirus as it disrupts the production and deliveries of some of its...
Two scientists with ties to China charged with fraud in the...
The United States government has separately arrested two China-related scientists found to have committed fraudulent misrepresentations.
Li Xiao-Jiang, who previously worked as a neuroscientist at...
China’s TCL to stop release of BlackBerry phones
TCL Communication will cease producing BlackBerry-branded Android smartphones in August 2020, marking the end of a licensing agreement that revived the iconic phone brand since 2016.
Mitsubishi denies alleged use of emission defeat devices
Japanese auto giant Mitsubishi Motors Corp defended that it had not committed fraud and used illegal defeat devices in its diesel engines.
This after German...
Canadian robot detected nCov earlier than health officials
On January 29, 2020, it was confirmed that a Canadian artificial intelligence platform called BlueDot detected the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, a full…
2 Taiwanese electronic companies enter world’s top PC vendors
Taipei-based Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. once again made it to the list of the world’s top 10 computer manufacturers in terms of...
