Microsoft is back to selling smartphones for the first time since it abandoned its mobile business more than four years ago. The company began taking orders Wednesday for the Surface Duo, a new dual-screen Android device that costs USD 1,399 and begins shipping in September. The high-priced gadget is designed to impress, but is also … Read more
As it lines up a fresh Rs 8,000-crore investment for India, German auto giant Volkswagen Group has said that it is not easy to do business in the country and warned that putting restrictions on, or delaying, imports of critical components from China is a retrograde measure and an “old socialist model, held good in … Read more
OMC Group Sdn Bhd “(“OMC Group”) is offering a fun way to learn about blockchain through a game of collecting unique tradable digital tokens with the launch of Omni Pets today. Omni Pets are digital tokens created using the ERC-721 open standard based on the Ethereum protocol and are non-fungible, that is, these tokens are all unique … Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Guardant Health’s liquid biopsy, Guardant360® CDx, for tumor mutation profiling in patients across all solid cancers. For Guardant Health Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA), this FDA approval represents a landmark achievement of the Guardant360 test. Currently, the liquid biopsy is commercially available in 41 countries in … Read more
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in his statement to the antitrust House committee last week that Shopify is a new competitor. Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, however, said Amazon is not a “direct competitor” during the company’s earnings call last week. E-commerce experts say they’re “indirect” competitors that effectively play in the same field. Visit Business … Read more
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani‘s oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries has been ranked second biggest brand after Apple on the FutureBrand Index 2020. “This year’s highest entrant at number two, Reliance Industries excels on every attribute,” FutureBrand said, releasing its 2020 Index. One of the most profitable companies in India, Reliance is, “very well respected” and “seen as … Read more
Online education platform Byju’s has acquired Mumbai-based education technology (edtech) start-up WhiteHat Jr in an all-cash deal worth $300 million. The acquisition marks Byju’s entry into the fast-growing computer code training segment targeted at high school and college students. This is BYJU’s fifth acquisition and is also its largest acquisition to date. It had last … Read more
Leading primary investment news and data platform China Money Network (www.ChinaMoneyNetwork.com) today unveiled its sister service Caishen.Co (www.Caishen.Co) to provide critical information about China’s secondary investment markets. Caishen.Co monitors real-time data for over 4600 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The platform then organizes more than 32000 monthly market … Read more
Jagdishan, currently working as the ‘change agent’ of the largest private sector lender and head of finance, has been with the bank since 1996, and the appointment will put an end to one of the most keenly watched successions in the banking industry. Puri is widely credited with building the bank from scratch and leading … Read more