Fidelity National Information Services, a major financial service technology company from the US, has announced it will acquire Worldpay for over 30 billion euros. It’s the largest deal to date in the quickly growing electronic payments industry. The fintech sector is still growing very hard. Consultants at McKinsey think that… Continue reading
It is the third antitrust fine from Brussels to land on Google’s desk.
EU antitrust regulators handed down a 1.49 billion euro ($1.69 billion) fine to Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, marking the company’s third penalty in two years.
World shares faced an end to their longest winning streak of the year as investors took profits on Wednesday before the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy decision, seen as offering clues to interest rate prospects over the coming year.
Das Keyboard has made a name as a maker of high-end keyboards for users with demanding standards for what they type on. Developers are a prime example, and so the new Das Keyboard 5Q, with a list price of $249, is billed as “the ultimate keyboard for d…
Pilot fish is the non-IT IT guy for about 30 fellow cubicle farmers — the person the others turn to before calling IT with a problem. Comes one morning when fish is late, and one of his neighbors with a flickering CRT monitor can’t wait to ask for f…
Facebook is developing its own cryptocurrency for payments, according to at least two reports, a move that has the potential to make the social network billions of dollars while also helping to eliminate fake news and bots.Although the social media …
Saudi Arabia will be pumping $23 billion into a massive beautification project for its capital Riyadh, its government has announced.
When business software company SAP announced in January it would lay off 4,400 staff, Chief Financial Officer Luka Mucic described the restructuring as a “fitness program” for Europe’s most valuable technology firm.
Hong Kong residents have the least confidence about the future in 25 years, a University of Hong Kong public opinion poll shows.
Chief Executive Elon Musk has never sought pre-approval for a single tweet about Tesla Inc since striking a court-approved deal about how to communicate important information about the electric vehicle maker, the top U.S. securities regulator told a ju…
China is ready to strengthen “a global strategic partnership” with Italy, Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote in an Italian daily on the eve of his visit to the euro zone’s third-largest economy.
At least two tankers have ferried Iranian fuel oil to Asia in recent months despite U.S. sanctions against such shipments, according to a Reuters analysis of ship-tracking data and port information, as well as interviews with brokers and traders.
Extremely tight credit conditions and a slowdown in China’s economy led to a record amount of corporate defaults last year, according to experts.
Asian shares slipped from six-month highs on Wednesday as investors took profits ahead of a policy decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve which is expected to shed more light on its interest rate plans for the rest of the year.
Google announced on Tuesday it was entering the video game industry with a streaming platform, Stadia.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday its new Galaxy flagship smartphones were selling well in China and it was confident it could reverse the recent slump in its fortunes in the world’s biggest smartphone market.
An off-duty pilot correctly identified the problem the crew was facing and guided them to disable the flight control system in order to save the plane, Bloomberg reported.
Facebook Inc has agreed to change its paid advertising platform as part of a wide-ranging settlement to prevent discriminatory and “harmful” practices, the company and U.S. civil rights groups said on Tuesday.
The world’s biggest memory chipmaker, Samsung Electronics, reiterated its forecast of a weak 2019 as shareholders gathered for its annual general meeting in Seoul, citing a slowdown in demand for memory chips.
Lyft Inc’s initial public offering (IPO) is oversubscribed based on commitments made so far by investors, making it more likely that the ride-hailing startup will fetch or even exceed the $23 billion valuation it is seeking, people familiar with the ma…
Following the live-streaming on social media of the mass shooting in New Zealand, the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security wrote a letter to top executives of four major technology companies urging them to do a better job of removing …
Overnight in U.S. markets, stocks were hit by a new wave of uncertainty on the U.S.-China trade front following a series of conflicting reports.
The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives transportation committee and another key Democrat asked the Transportation Department’s inspector general on Tuesday to examine key decisions made by the Federal Aviation Administration in certifying Bo…
Viacom Inc said on Tuesday it had begun warning viewers its channels could stop being shown on AT&T Inc-owned DirecTV if it fails to reach a new contract by midnight March 22.
Google last week issued Chrome 73, an update that added support for desktop “Progressive Web Apps” on Macs and consolidated settings – both old and new – that let users opt out of Google’s services.Chrome 73 also patched 60 vulnerabilities; security…
Los fundadores de Privalia culminan su salida. Cuatro meses después de dejar la compañía conocemos que ambos fundadores abandonan definitivamente la empresa. Lucas Carné y José Manuel Villanueva han abandonado el consejo de administración de la compañí…
El nuevo altavoz Echo Plus de Amazon viene con más fuerza tras su segunda edición. El asistente personal Alexa nos permite realizar llamadas, enviar y recibir mensajes y conectar todas nuestras skills favoritas a la aplicación: actualización de noticia…
Asos cierra al alza el semestre. Los seis primeros meses del año han sido fructuosos para el gigante británico de ecommerce que ha crecido un 13,2% entre agosto y febrero, alcanzado así una facturación de 1.131,3 millones de libras (1.322,8 millones de…
Packhelp, la startup polaca con sede en Sevilla que permite diseñar y pedir packaging personalizado a negocios ecommerce, ha levantado 10 millones de dólares en una de las rondas de financiación de Serie A más grandes en europa del este. La ronda ha si…
