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Triller says made $20 billion bid with Centricus for TikTok assets By

The $20 billion offer - which would include $10 billion in cash and $10 billion in profit splitting - would also include TikTok's assets in India, Australia and...

FDA commissioner says willing to fast-track COVID-19 vaccine: FT

If everything goes well, then the Oxford vaccine will be ready in the next 6 weeks. Collins said he, Fauci, and others would "certainly make a big noise about...

Japans flying car carries out successful test run, with a person aboard

Mr Fukuzawa said that if his team can increase the time their vehicle can spend in the air from five-to-10 minutes to even 30 minutes then the project will offe...

DDoS attack against the New Zealand Stock Exchange (Includes interview)

The Exchange Website remain offline at time of writing - despite plans to resume trading at 1.00pm - as hackers crashed the system via a heavyweight Distributed...

Chinese EV maker Xpeng increases U.S. IPO size to $1.5 billion

Xpeng's second electric model is the P7 smart sedan , which followed the G3 compact SUV. The company is planning to list its shares on the New York Stock Exc...

Facebook to Continue WFH Until July 2021

That very same month, Twitter grew to become one of many first corporations to announce that staff will be capable to work at home completely in the event t...

Mercedes joins 'The Climate Pledge', to deliver 1,800 electric vehicles to Amazon

Amazon says it's buying 1,800 electric delivery vans from Mercedes-Benz, the biggest such order for the German automaker to date. In September 2019, Amazon ...

Weekly jobless claims totaled 1M last week, in-line with expectations

Labor Department reported. The pandemic has had a devastating impact on the American economy . The state's unemployment rate in July was 10.3%. "While w...

Canadian economy posted record drop in second quarter due to pandemic

Almost all components used to calculate GDP were at their lowest from April to June-largely due to the lockdowns in April. But there was also a bright spot in...

Tesla Employee Stops Hacker from Installing Malware, Blackmailing Company

The malware would have then provided Kriuchkov and his associates with access to the company's systems, allowing them to collect and steal sensitive documents...

Apple Losing Share of Wireless Earbuds Market Despite Growing AirPods Sales

The fact is that like many products Apple introduces, AirPods were not the first true wireless earbuds on the market, but they were the first to become wild...

How Hogan's resignation presents Von der Leyen with a fresh headache

He apologized repeatedly for attending the dinner in Ireland during the pandemic, an event under police investigation for being in breach of rules that already ...

Google Employees to Work from Home Until 2021

Google was quick to let employees work from home when the pandemic started earlier this year. Google will reportedly ask most of its 200,000 employees to w...

Google will allow employees to work from home till July 2021

As many as 200,000 full-time and contract workers are reportedly affected by the announcement, which previously had employees staying home until January 2021. T...

TikTok’s CEO Kevin Mayer quits after three months

USA retail giant Walmart has said that it had teamed with Microsoft to buy TikTok , the Chinese-owned short-form video app that has come under fire from the ad...

Ikea, Lego Group team up to roll out Bygglek series

But organising LEGO bricks the grown-up way also means ending the play sometimes. Ikea describes the range using the oxymoron of "playful storage soluti...

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, announces resignation

Abe, who hails from Japan's political elite and on Monday surpassed a record for the longest consecutive tenure as premier set by his great-uncle Eisaku Sato ...

S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit all-time closing high

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted their fourth and fifth consecutive all-time high records, respectively, yesterday, with the Nasdaq edging closer to 40 records for...

Jeff Bezos Becomes First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion

Amazon Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Bezos , on Wednesday became the world's first person ever to hit a net worth of $200bn as the tech giant's stock continued...

GST deficit: States should not be asked to borrow, says Mitra

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Maharashtra's Uddhav Thackeray, Jharkhand's Hemant Soren and Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states Amarinder Sing...

Delta to furlough over 1900 pilots in October

Of the 27,000 flight attendants American employed pre-pandemic, 2,700 have left the company permanently, 4,500 will take voluntary leave in October, and 8,100 w...

Ant delivers timely boost to Hong Kong listing market

Ant Group seeks a dual listing, as it wants its share to trade in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Alipay had 711 million monthly active users as of June, with payme...

Three Belarus opposition activists detained in the capital

Svetlana Alexievich, victor of the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize, is a member of the Coordination Council, which was established by opponents of Alexander Lukash...

USA duties imposed on Canadian softwood breaches global trading rules — WTO

The WTO panel "failed to acknowledge the impact of the Canadian government's subsidies advantaging the Canadian lumber industry". The WTO's dispute settlement...

Unemployed New Yorkers to get extra $300 per week

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Republicans re-nominate Trump for 2020 election

The Biden campaign says Flake will make remarks today as they try to gin up counterprogramming on the first day of the Republican National Convention . "This w...

Dow jumps after Trump pushes plasma treatments

The blue-chip Dow, while leading Monday's gains, remains almost 4.2% below its all-time high, and down 0.8% year-to-date. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 137.97...

Belarus strongman orders army to defend borders ahead of protests

While state media reported about 20,000 protesters took part, opposition-leaning media put the estimate at almost 100,000 protesters. Police patrols on main h...

Coronavirus Transmits UK debt 2 trillion for the first time

Net borrowing from April to the end of July was estimated to have hit £150.5bn (Dh726.66bn), the ONS said. In July alone, borrowing was 26.7 billion pounds, t...

Cupertino’s Apple reaches $2 trillion in market cap as tech fortunes feather

It has also been found that Apple's revenue increased nearly everywhere during June even though the pandemic took a toll on the U.S. economy, and broke its sp...

Ottawa Introduces New $37-Billion Income Support Plan

The new support measures announced Thursday outline what the Liberals intend for the four million workers now receiving the $500-a-week CERB, which is set to ...

Twitter will allow workforce to continue working from home 'forever'

A Twitter spokesperson explained, "We were uniquely positioned to respond quickly and allow folks to work from home , given our emphasis on decentralization ...

Several brands of American-grown peaches recalled over Salmonella fears

All of the implicated peaches were packed or supplied by Prima Wawona or Wawona Packing Co., both of California. Epidemiological evidence indicates that peach...

Belarus: Strongman Lukashenko orders army to defend borders ahead of protests

Belarus' Association of Journalists on Saturday said more than 20 news websites reporting on the former-Soviet republic's drama had been blocked. North Atlan...

Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Peaches

ALDI recalls Wawona Packing Company peaches from stores. A supermarket chain has voluntarily recalled bags of peaches that it sells in at least 20 states due...