Australian police have arrested 44 men across the nation on suspicion of possessing and producing child abuse material. Sixteen children had been “removed from harm” in the process, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. The arrests followed a year-long investigation into images and videos that were shared online. Arrests of […]
Year: 2020
WASHINGTON: Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at US voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter. Those failures provided […]
SINGAPORE: The number of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats sold in the resale market in the third quarter rose by 127.3 per cent after the lifting of Singapore’s “circuit breaker” in June. Official figures released on Friday (Oct 23) showed that 7,787 flats were sold from July to September […]
WASHINGTON: Goldman Sachs on Thursday (Oct 22) said it was clawing back US$174 million in executive compensation and had agreed to pay US$2.9 billion over its role in Malaysia’s 1MDB corruption scandal, lifting a cloud that has hung over the bank for years. The settlement with the US Department of […]
US regulators have given full approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat Covid-19 patients in hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Veklury, the drug’s brand name, cut the recovery time on average by five days during clinical trials. “Veklury is the first treatment for COVID-19 to […]
France will extend an overnight curfew to dozens more areas in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced. “The second wave is now under way,” he said, shortly before the country announced a record 41,622 new cases. The 21:00 to 06:00 curfew will […]
NEW YORK: Intel on Thursday (Oct 22) missed third-quarter revenue estimates for its data-centre chip unit as the COVID-19 pandemic crippled sales to government and business customers, sending its shares down 10 per cent. Revenue from Intel’s data-centre business fell 7 per cent to US$5.9 billion in the reported quarter, […]
NEW YORK: US companies’ borrowings for capital investments fell about 13 per cent in September from a year earlier, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) said on Thursday (Oct 22). The companies signed up for US$8.7 billion in new loans, leases and lines of credit last month, down from […]
Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it has invested US$100 million in opening new warehouses in Mexico, including its first shipping centers outside the populous capital area, in a bid to offer faster deliveries. MEXICO CITY: Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it has invested US$100 million in opening new warehouses in […]
Wipro announced it has entered into an agreement with enterprise application software provider SAP to offer advanced customer-specific content and training assets and boost productivity. Wipro on Thursday announced it has entered into an agreement with enterprise application software provider SAP to offer advanced customer-specific content and training assets and […]