The BRICS Business Council has announced plans to establish a logistics hub in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a decision that could significantly reshape global trade dynamics among its member nations and
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a confidential 2018 email that he had considered spinning off Instagram from the company, a move that could have significantly altered the landscape of social media.
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Nvidia has announced that it expects to take a $5.5 billion financial hit after the US government tightened restrictions on the company’s ability to export artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. The
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Japanese electronics giant TDK has announced a major breakthrough in optical technology that it claims could eliminate one of the most significant hurdles in the development of generative artificial intelligence: high-speed data
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In January 2025, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-largest country by population (282 million) with the seventh-largest Gross Domestic Product by purchasing power parity – joined the BRICS+ bloc. Eleven countries are now in this
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Three Indonesian judges have been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes to deliver a favourable ruling that cleared three major palm oil companies of corruption charges, in a scandal that has rocked
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Pfizer has halted development of its experimental weight-loss pill, danuglipron, after a patient in a clinical trial developed a liver injury, dealing a blow to the company’s ambitions in the rapidly growing
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Nato has acquired an artificial intelligence-powered military system from Palantir Technologies, the US software company chaired by Peter Thiel, a prominent backer of Donald Trump, in a move that signals both urgency
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The U.S. dollar, once regarded as the gold standard for financial stability, is losing its “safe haven” status as global investors increasingly turn their backs on both U.S. bonds and the dollar
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India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by USD 10.872 billion, reaching USD 676.26 billion in the week ending April 4, 2025, according to official data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
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Nearly one-third of all domestic digital payments in India this year have been credit-driven, powered by credit cards and equated monthly instalments (EMIs), according to a recent survey analysing transaction data from
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