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Allegations Against Pornhub To Be Investigated By Mastercard

After a report was published in The New York Times of videos in the website Pornhub.com, that the authors of the report described to be of assaults on unconscious women and girls and many of the videos were of child abuse were , an investigation against the allegations against Pornhub will be...

LG Reorganizes Its Loss-Making Smartphone Business And Will Outsource Its Lower-End Models

South Korean tech giant LG Electronics has decided to reorganize its mobile phone business unit and is set to increase the role of outsourcing for manufacturing of its mid-end smartphones, the company said on Monday. According to analysts, this step by the company is strategy by it to bring down...

Over 400 Lawmakers From 34 Countries Sign Letter Supporting Make Amazon Pay Campaign

A campaign that claims the e-commerce and tech giant Amazon has "dodged and dismissed … debts to workers, societies, and the planet," has found support from more than 400 lawmakers from 34 countries, the organizers of the campaign said. The lawmakers have signed a letter supporting the campaign...

South Korean Battery Makers LG Chem And SK Innovation Fight Over EV Recalls In US

A tussle in currently on-going between the South Korean battery makers LG Chem and SK Innovation over the issue of whether the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) should take into consideration a recent recall of electric vehicles in relation to a case of trade secret theft.  ...

Its Digital Payments Business To Be Spun Off By Walmart's Flipkart

The digital business of the Walmart Inc-controlled Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart will be partially spun off, the company said on Thursday. Its digital payment app PhonePe will be spun off to broaden the businesses access to the capital markets for faster growth of the platform.   The...

US Regulator Accuses Google Of Violating US Labour Laws In Crackdown On Worker Organising

Alphabet Inc's Google has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of the United States of unlawfully monitoring and questioning several workers and then they were fired by the company for raising their voice against the policies of the company and trying to create a workers’ union at the...

China's SMIC And CNOOC To Be Added To Defense Blacklist By Trump Administration: Reuters

A blacklist comprising of alleged Chinese military companies will soon have China’s top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC, claimed a report published by the news agency Reuters.    The administration of the United States president Donald Trump is poised to...

Taiwan's GlobalWafers In Advanced Stage Negotiations For Acquiring German Rival Siltronic

Negotiations between the German firm Siltronic and the third-largest maker of semiconductor wafers of the world GlobalWafers of Taiwan are at an advanced stage for the acquisition of the German firm by the Taiwanese firm, GlobalWafers confirmed on Monday. The Taiwanese company said that the deal is...

Japanese Airline ANA To Issue New Shares To Raise $3.2 Billion To Finance Purchase Of 787 Jets

Japanese airlines ANA Holdings has decided to continue to purchase the wide bodied 787 planes from Boeing according to its pre-pandemic orders for the planes to the company even while deliveries of such planes are being deferred and delayed by many other airlines across the world in order to...

Facebook Could Launch Its Libra Crypto Currency As Early As January: FT

Facebook is getting all ready to launch its crypto currency Libra as soon as January next year, according to a report published in the Financial Times on Friday based on unidentified sources who are directly associated with the project.   One of the sources in the news report was quoted by...

Guilty To Criminal Charges Agreed To By OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma

In the opioid crisis case in the United States, Purdue Pharma LP pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to its efforts in handling of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin. This acceptance of guilt brought to an end investigation into the drug maker’s role in the crisis and a deal...

Pfizer-BioNtech Covid19 Vaccine Being Reviewed By UK Medical Regulator

Data from Pfizer/BioNTech about its recently concluded clinical trials for its Covid-19 vaccine us being reviewed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) of the United Kingdom, the government said, which will be used for determining whether the vaccine candidate is able...
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