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Huawei’s tri-foldable phone stirs Chinese pride but $2,800 price tag panned

BEIJING (Reuters) - Huawei's new tri-foldable smartphone has ignited nationalistic pride in China with social media abuzz with what supporters see as its ability to out-innovate Apple despite U.S.

Visa aims for 10-fold rise in Pakistani use of digital payments

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) - Visa plans to increase the number of businesses accepting digital payments in Pakistan tenfold over the next three years, the payments giant's general manager for

Chinese-Swedish Lynk & Co brand will not raise prices because of tariffs, Europe CEO says

By Victoria Waldersee FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Chinese-Swedish EV brand Lynk & Co, which will launch its first China-made battery-electric car in Europe next month, said it did not intend to pass on the

Microsoft hosts cybersecurity summit after global IT outage

(Reuters) -Microsoft held a summit on Tuesday to discuss steps to improve cybersecurity systems, after a faulty software update from CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage in July. The conference

Tech firm executives to testify before US Senate about election threats

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Executives from major tech firms like Google, Adobe, Microsoft and Meta Platforms will testify next week at a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on

GameStop reports fall in revenue, files for 20 million share offering

(Reuters) -GameStop said on Tuesday it had filed for an offering of up to 20 million shares, sending its stock down more than 10% in extended trading after the videogame retailer's second-quarter

Amazon to invest $10 billion in UK data centres

By Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) - Internet giant Amazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, said on Wednesday that it plans to spend 8 billion pounds ($10.45 billion) in the United Kingdom

News Corp would have lost $9 billion in 2017 by ditching Google ads, ex-exec testifies

By Jody Godoy ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - News Corp in 2017 estimated losing at least $9 billion in ad revenue that year if it had switched away from Google's massive advertising apparatus,

Tech firms halve business travel in 2023 but Alphabet, Apple lag, study shows

(Reuters) - Global tech giants halved their business flight emissions in 2023 compared to 2019, but companies like Apple and Google's parent Alphabet are falling behind, risking a return to

News Corp would have lost $9 million in 2017 by ditching Google ads, ex-exec testifies

By Jody Godoy ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - News Corp in 2017 estimated losing at least $9 billion in ad revenue that year if it had switched away from Google's massive advertising apparatus,

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Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination underlines Israel’s military supremacy. Will it win peace?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of being drawn into another attritional war with Hezbollah. His commanders they are unlikely to win.

10 yrs ago, battery leasing failed to boost demand for EV cars in India. Now, it’s making a comeback

Under this model, battery is provided to EV owners on a subscription basis or lease. With more people open to buying EV cars, the lower upfront cost could likely drive wider acceptance.

Morocco signs pact with Tata for joint manufacture of WhAP Infantry Fighting Vehicle

The armoured platform is India's first amphibious infantry combat wheeled vehicle. Last year, the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces had procured 90 military trucks from the Tata Group.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?