STOCKHOLM : SAP said on Thursday it has agreed to buy a majority stake in privately held U.S. fintech firm Taulia as the German business software group seeks to expand its presence across supply-chain financing and working capital loans. Taulia works with financial institutions to allow suppliers that use its […]
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BEIJING: Beijing has limited the movement of people in more parts of the Chinese capital, even as it reported fewer Covid-19 cases on Thursday, in a bid to lower virus risk less than 10 days before its hosting of the Winter Olympics Games. Beijing’s Fengtai district said late on Wednesday […]
NUKU’ALOFA (Tonga): A coronavirus-hit Australian warship docked in Tonga today, delivering desperately needed aid to the volcano-and-tsunami-struck nation under strict “no-contact” protocols. Tongan Health Minister Saia Piukala said the crew of the HMAS Adelaide would follow drastic health protocols to ensure the remote Pacific kingdom remains one of the few […]
NEW YORK: Rescue crews searched waters off Florida’s Atlantic shore yesterday for 39 people reported missing by a survivor found clinging to a boat that capsized in what the US Coast Guard called a suspected human smuggling operation gone awry. The survivor told authorities after his rescue that he had […]
FILE – Protesters gather for a rally against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. On Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, the Biden administration said it has officially withdrawn a rule that would have required workers at big companies to get vaccinated or […]
SEOUL: South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases exceeded 13,000 for the first time, data showed today, while the government sought to revise its Covid-19 response to focus on the highly contagious but less-lethal Omicron variant. The record of 13,012 comes just a day after the tally topped 8,000 for the […]
Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday. The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from […]
ZURICH : Logitech International expects the global shortage of semiconductor chips to continue throughout 2022, Chief Executive Bracken Darrell told Reuters on Tuesday. “I think it is going to be around a while,” Darrell said. “I don’t think it (the shortage) will be as severe by the time we get […]
BOGOTA : Neurosurgery on Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal has “ended successfully,” the hospital where he was treated said on Tuesday, just hours after the former Tour de France winner slammed into a vehicle and injured his spine, legs and chest. Bernal, who became the first South American to win the […]
LONDON: Britain will not hesitate to toughen sanctions on Moscow and will look to contribute to any Nato deployment if Russia invaded Ukraine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today. Nato said yesterday it was putting forces on standby and reinforcing eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets, in what […]