LONDON: British finance minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to introduce sweeping tax cuts and an overhaul of planning laws in up to 10 new “freeports” within a year of the UK’s becoming fully independent from the European Union in December, the Sunday Telegraph said. Sunak will open the bidding for […]
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ORLANDO: Mickey waved from a distance and visitors wore colorful face masks with mouse ears on Saturday (Jul 11) as Florida’s Walt Disney World opened to the public for the first time in four months amid a surge of coronavirus cases in the state. Walt Disney Co welcomed a limited […]
NEW DELHI: India’s government has petitioned the Rajasthan High Court to stop any of the Chinese companies whose 59 apps it recently banned from obtaining an injunction to block the order, according to two sources and the legal filing. India last month outlawed dozens of Chinese apps including ByteDance’s popular […]
PALO ALTO: Elon Musk’s net worth soared past Warren Buffett on Friday (Jul 10) as the chief executive officer of Tesla became the seventh richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk’s fortune rose by US$6.07 billion on Friday, Bloomberg News said, following a 10.8 per […]
OSLO: Norway will lift travel restrictions to and from more than 20 European countries from Jul 15, the government said on Friday (Jul 10). These include France, Germany and Britain as well as some provinces of neighbouring Sweden. Norway is not a member of the European Union but belongs to […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Friday (Jul 10) said it suspended more than 50 white nationalist accounts for violating policies against violent extremism. “The accounts in question were suspended for violating our policies in relation to violent extremism,” a Twitter spokesman told AFP, confirming a report by NBC News. The move […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft’s LinkedIn was sued by a New York-based iPhone user on Friday (Jul 10) for allegedly reading and diverting users’ sensitive content from Apple’s Universal Clipboard application. According to Apple’s website, Universal Clipboard allows users to copy text, images, photos, and videos on one Apple device and then […]
REUTERS: In the span of a few hours on Friday (Jul 10), Amazon.com Inc banned and then unbanned the TikTok video sharing app from employee mobile devices, calling the move a mistake. The news generated widespread attention for the Chinese-owned social media platform coming the same week US Secretary of […]
REUTERS: Facebook Inc is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the Nov. 3 elections in the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the company’s thinking. The potential ban is only being discussed and has […]
LONDON: The British government is expected to set a deadline of 2025 for removing equipment made by China’s Huawei from the country’s 5G telecoms networks, the Telegraph newspaper said on Friday. The Telegraph reported that British culture minister Oliver Dowden will make a statement in Parliament on Tuesday about Huawei, […]