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Toyota, Suzuki Take Hybrid Route in India for Local, Global Markets

Toyota Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp on Friday said they would begin production of hybrid vehicles in India, a category that Toyota has said is currently best suited to such markets. A Toyota plant in southern India would in August begin building a hybrid sport utility vehicle (SUV) developed by Suzuki, the companies said. […]

Bahrain in Talks for Cloud Computing, FDI Deals

Bahrain is in advanced talks for investment deals with cloud computing companies from the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates, an Economic Development Board executive said, as the country seeks to diversify its oil-based economy. Cloud computing and foreign direct investment are key planks of Bahrain’s economic recovery programme that aims to grow […]

Tokyo Gas Begins Synthetic Methane Trial Using Green Hydrogen

Tokyo Gas Co Ltd, Japan’s top city gas supplier, said on Friday it has begun a pilot programme of methanation, a technology to help decarbonise city gas, and plans to use green hydrogen sourced from renewable energy for the trial by next March. Methanation converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO2) into synthetic methane, an alternative […]

Explainer-Can Crypto Holders Recoup Losses in Court?

A downturn in cryptocurrency prices and crash of one stablecoin has led some investors to try to recover their losses in U.S. court. Here is how cryptocurrency litigation has fared so far and the challenges investors may face. Who is Being Sued? Companies that created cryptocurrencies, exchanges that facilitated their sale, and individuals who promoted […]

Roche Sceptical about Investing More in 'Guided-Missile' ADC Cancer Drugs

Roche remains sceptical about investing more in antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), which have been described as “guided-missile” cancer drugs, even as they attract heightened attention in the pharmaceutical industry. “There are quite a few companies that invest in this area. As for us, we still have rather limited interest,” Chief Executive Severin Schwan told journalists at […]

U.S. Crypto Firm Harmony Hit by $100 Million Heist

U.S. crypto firm Harmony said on Friday that thieves stole around $100 million worth of digital coins from one of its key products, the latest in a string of cyber heists on a sector long targeted by hackers. Harmony develops blockchains for so-called decentralised finance – peer-to-peer sites that offer loans and other services without […]

Chinese Fashion Tech Firm LincTex Digital Raises $100 Million

LincTex Digital, best known for developing its virtual try-on technology for fashion e-commerce, raised $100 million in a fund-raising round led by Hillhouse Capital and CDH Investments, according to the company’s official WeChat account. The money has been earmarked for international expansion and a further shift into the digital fashion realm, it said on Tuesday. […]

Netflix Lays Off 300 Employees in Cost-Cutting Drive

Netflix Inc said it laid off 300 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in the second round of job cuts aimed at lowering costs after the streaming giant lost subscribers for the first time in more than a decade. The move mostly affected its U.S. workforce and came after the company cut 150 […]

Binance Scores Cristiano Ronaldo as Partner for NFT Push

Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volumes, said on Thursday it has signed a partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo for the promotion of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). As part of the multi-year agreement, the Portuguese soccer star and Binance will create a series of NFT collections for sale on the company’s platform, the cryptocurrency exchange […]