Britain risks missing out on capturing a larger share of the electric vehicle (EV) battery supply chain unless the government does more to help startups gain access to private financing, according to a study released on Tuesday. Only the private sector can provide enough finance to fuel the transition to zero-emission transport – with battery […]
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The word “metaverse” is the most popular in the worldwide tech market today. Big tech companies worldwide are racing for a piece of the virtual pie that analysts expect will be worth trillions. Companies Developing the Metaverse are concentrating on creating new technologies and features that will allow users to communicate with one another more […]
The S&P 500 ended below 4,000 for the first time since late March 2021 and the Nasdaq dropped more than 4 percent on Monday in a selloff led by mega-cap growth shares as investors grew more concerned about rising interest rates. The Nasdaq closed at its lowest level since November 2020. Apple shares dropped 3.3 […]
El Salvador, the first country to declare bitcoin (BTC) as legal currency last year, has resumed its bitcoin buying frenzy by purchasing another 500 tokens for $15.3 million, according to a Tweet by Nayib Bukele. El Salvador paid an average of $30,744 for each bitcoin, Bukele said, seizing the opportunity to buy the bitcoin price dip. El […]
Nvidia Corporation has agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle civil charges that the technology firm did not properly disclose the impact of cryptomining on its gaming business, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Friday. Nvidia failed to disclose that cryptomining was a “significant element” of its revenue growth during back-to-back quarters […]
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp is set to report a bruising loss at its Vision Fund investment unit on Thursday, analysts said, after investors sold off the high-growth stocks favoured by the fund with questions about their earnings potential. With the technology investor poised to post full-year earnings, comments from founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son […]
No one yet knows what exactly the Metaverse will look like. Large companies are pouring not millions but billions of investment money to stake their claim on the Metaverse before it fully materializes, Among the tech giants most invested in the Metaverse, Qualcomm. Meta, formerly Facebook, has sunk over $3 billion “laying the groundwork” for […]
European shares hit two-month lows on Monday, led by miners as investors fretted over a sharp economic slowdown in China due to prolonged COVID-19 curbs, while surging bond yields kept technology stocks under pressure. The pan-European STOXX 600 index dropped 1.2 percent to touch its lowest since March 10. Miners fell 2.8 percent as Chinese […]
Britain will give statutory powers to a new technology regulator so it can enforce pro-competition rules and prevent tech giants including Google and Facebook from using their dominance to push out smaller firms and disadvantage consumers. “The government will introduce legislation to put the Digital Markets Unit on a statutory footing in due course,” the […]
Omantel (formerly known as General Telecommunications Organization) is the first telecom company in Oman founded in the 1990s and offering a wide range of services including fixed telephony, fixed and mobile broadband, and mobile voice and data services. The last few years were not all rosy for the leading Omani operators. One of the first […]