Martin Guptill, New Zealand’s greatest T20I run-scorer, has retired from international cricket at the age of 38, New Zealand Cricket announced on Wednesday. Guptill has not played for New Zealand since 2022 and will continue to play franchise white-ball cricket. He played 367 games for the Blackcaps, including 198 ODIs,Read More →
(Reuters) – Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has barred Uber Technologies’ $950 million acquisition of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda operation on the island due to anti-competitive concerns, the agency said Wednesday. Uber and Foodpanda did not immediately reply to calls for comment after regular business hours. According to a statement fromRead More →
RAWALPINDI (APP) – NLC and DP World have delivered over 1,000 containers between Pakistan and Bangladesh since October, when they launched the first direct shipping route between the two nations, a strategic effort that would considerably improve South Asian commerce and connectivity. Container service between Karachi and Jable Ali willRead More →
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The deputy trade minister was quoted by official news agency Antara in their piece about the short video app TikTok, which stated that it was applying for an e-commerce permit from the Indonesian government. A significant setback for TikTok, which had promised to invest billions of dollarsRead More →
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Some of the world’s leading banks predict that global economic growth will drop further in 2024, due to rising interest rates, increasing energy prices, and a recession in the world’s two largest economies. According to a Reuters survey, the global economy will increase 2.9%Read More →
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – In September, the euro zone’s inflation rate dropped to its lowest level in two years, signaling that the European Central Bank’s steady diet of interest rate increases was working to tame inflationary trends, but at an increasing cost to economic development. According to Eurostat’s flash estimate releasedRead More →
(Reuters) For IT juggernauts like Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O), artificial intelligence is anticipated to yield significant returns in the future. But before profits start to affect the bottom line, anticipate further investments, the corporations said on Tuesday. According to Microsoft, prices increased significantly when it constructed new data centersRead More →
BERLIN (Reuters)- Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) announced on Wednesday that it is collaborating with Chinese EV startup Xpeng and joint venture partner SAIC to develop new vehicles and perhaps co-create platforms in order to defend market share. The Volkswagen brand will collaborate with Xpeng Inc (9868.HK) to build two cars aimed atRead More →
More than a dozen current and former staff members of the Indian edtech startup Byju’s told Reuters that this week’s new issues have increased anxieties among employees who were already uncertain about their futures as a result of earlier rounds of job reductions. On Thursday, three significant board members andRead More →
KANO (Reuters) – Muhammad Khamis Umar stands in front of stacks of plastic items at a tiny business in Kano, Nigeria’s northernmost city. Since the removal of a gasoline subsidy by the country’s new president, Bola Tinubu, the price of petrol has increased significantly. The majority of Umar’s clients travelledRead More →