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Wall Street Up Before Fed Meet as Tech Buying Punctuates Volatile Trade

Wall Street’s main indexes closed a seesaw session higher on Monday, as investors bought in to technology names in the last hour of trading amid bets they had been overly beaten down ahead of this week’s Federal Reserve meeting. The gathering of U.S. central bank policymakers is widely expected to raise interest rates by half […]

Japan PM to Discuss Defence, Customs Deals on Thailand Trip

Japan is expected to announce a new defence agreement among several deals with Thailand on Monday during a visit by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the last leg of his three-nation tour of Southeast Asia. The agreement, details of which have yet to be disclosed, would facilitate transfers of defence hardware and technology from Japan to […]

Batelco and the Effects of the Bahraini Market Liberalization

The Bahrain Telecommunications Company was established in 1981 as the sole communications service provider in the country. The operator is mostly owned (directly or indirectly) by the Bahraini government with a total of 77 percent (more than 50 percent shared between Mumtalakat holding company and the social insurance organization). However, the telecommunications regulatory authority (TRA) […]

Activision Blizzard shareholders approve $68.7 billion Microsoft deal

Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc said on Thursday that its shareholders approved Microsoft Corp’s $68.7 billion proposal to buy the “Call of Duty” maker. More than 98 percent of the shares voted at a special meeting held earlier in the day were in favor of the proposed transaction, the Santa Monica, California-based company said. Microsoft […]

Analysis-Musk's Twitter free speech promise may be tested in Middle East

Twitter buyer Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, but that could be put to the test in the Middle East where critics say authoritarian governments use the platform to track opponents and spread disinformation. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how it might deal with Middle Eastern governments’ […]

Robinhood shares fall after retail broker posts drop in revenue, users

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc, the brokerage at the center of last year’s retail trading frenzy, slipped to a record low on Thursday after it posted a 43 percent fall in first-quarter revenue and a decline in monthly active users. Shares of the Menlo Park, California-based firm dropped more than 12 percent to $8.83 in […]

Wall Street Ends Sharply Higher, Lifted by Meta and Apple

Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday after a strong quarterly report from Meta Platforms lifted beaten down technology and growth stocks and offset worries about the U.S. economy’s contraction in the first quarter. The Facebook parent surged 17.6 percent after the social network reported a larger-than-expected profit and rebounded from a drop in users. […]

Faurecia-Aptoide Signs up Mercedes in Infotainment Win over Google

Mercedes-Benz will use embedded Faurecia-Aptoide technology to power navigation and other vehicle infotainment functions in a crucial win for the app provider against Alphabet Inc’s Google and other technology firms to control car dashboards. The companies said on Thursday that under a multi-year partnership, from 2023 the joint venture between auto supplier Faurecia and independent […]

Smart Cities Sustainable Technologies

Planet Earth, a captivating and bountiful big blue marble, roaming in space. A Terra we call home. Yet, as humans, we tend to have detrimental and catastrophic environmental effects in ways exceeding expectations on our homeland. Effects that elicited disastrous climate issues and urbanization are one of them. This issue prompted the creation of intelligent […]

Cryptoassets Could be Seized to Stop Crime, UK Government Says

Cryptoassets could be seized to help combat economic crime, Britain’s government said on Thursday, but its proposal stopped short of the radical overhaul called for by lawmakers who want a single crime-busting agency. Banking and online scams have rocketed in Britain, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. The government said in its response to a parliamentary […]