Business Sep 7, 2021
Deutsche Telekom lifts T-Mobile U.S. stake in Softbank swap deal
The deal will make SoftBank the second-largest shareholder of the German telecommunication giant.
Business May 20, 2021
Every second counts as startups race to deliver fresh food
Investors have placed a bet that demand for convenience will drive the next transformation in food retail and help crack the vice-like grip of the big supermarket stores.
Business / Tech Sep 19, 2019
Huawei promises smartest 5G phone but who will be brave enough to buy?
Huawei launches what could be the world's most powerful and feature-packed 5G smartphone on Thursday, but the fate of the device in Europe will hang on whether it can overcome a U.S. ban to give customers the Google software they expect. The Chinese telecom giant ...
Business Jan 5, 2018
How a researcher hacked his own computer and discovered Meltdown
Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp. The 31-year-old information security researcher and post-doctoral fellow at Austria's Graz Technical University ...
Asia Pacific / Politics | FOCUS Dec 14, 2014
In Modi's India, green shoots of reform from a desert state
The reformist government that many Indians and free-market flag-bearers had hoped would emerge after this year's election isn't in New Delhi — at least not yet. It's a dusty day's drive to the southwest. The desert state of Rajasthan, derided as a poverty-stricken laggard, has ...