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“Squid Game,” Netflix Inc’s (NFLX.O) biggest original series launch, is estimated to be worth almost $900 million for the streaming giant, Bloomberg News reported late on Saturday, citing figures ...

Italy’s business lobby Confindustria said on Saturday the country’s growth this year would be more robust than expected, mainly due to a more contained impact of the COVID-19 ...

British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is stepping up plans for an online sales tax, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. Treasury officials have accelerated work on a new e-commerce tax and ...

Czech car makers will produce quarter a million fewer cars than expected this year due to the global shortage of chips and the automotive sector will lose 200 billion crowns ($9.14 billion) ...

Evergrande Group’s (3333.HK) chief executive is holding talks in Hong Kong with investment banks and creditors over a possible restructuring and asset sales, two people said, as the Chinese ...

An Apple employee who led fellow workers in publicly sharing instances of what they called harassment and discrimination at the company said on Thursday that she had been fired. Janneke ...

Investor Michael Burry of “The Big Short” fame said he was no longer betting against Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and that his position was just a trade, CNBC reported on ...

It was an email offering a discount on an electric toothbrush that began the sequence of events that ruined Anna’s life. Within minutes of entering her card details, she ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Following the prolonged period of subdued inflation, discussions are currently focusing on the evolution of prices, given their serious effects on citizens’ everyday lives ...

The Cyprus-Egypt memorandum of understanding on cross-border electrical interconnections marks an “important milestone” to promote regional collaboration in the field of energy between the two countries, Energy Minister Natasa Pilidou ...

By George M. Georgiou According to Eurostat’s data browser, Cyprus’ real per capita GDP in 2020 was €23.050, which is about 87 per cent of the EU-27 average. One could be forgiven ...

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is completed and ready to pump Russian gas to Europe, but nothing is flowing yet because it is still awaiting clearance from Germany’s energy regulator. ...

Aspiring unicorn ventures, meaning startup companies reaching a valuation of $1 billion, took centre stage on the second day of the Reflect Festival in Limassol. The startup event was a Cyprus ...

Bank of Cyprus’ Director of Compliance Division Marios Skandalis said that the coronavirus pandemic has given businesses an opportunity to reshape their long-term strategies to ensure their viability. “A business ...

Company insolvencies in England and Wales rose last month and returned to levels seen just before the COVID-19 pandemic, official data showed on Friday. The government’s Insolvency Service said 1,446 ...

A Banksy picture which was half sliced by a shredder concealed in its frame when it was sold at auction fetched 18.6 million pounds ($25.4 million) when it went back under the ...

The government on Friday presented its new strategy for attracting businesses to Cyprus with emphasis, among others, on high technology, shipping, innovation, and research and development, in a bid to ...

The Bitcoin rollercoaster ride may be ruthless, but it’s also logical. The digital currency’s boom and bust cycles are some of its defining features and should be seen ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday urged vulnerable consumers to make use of existing incentives that offer up to a 20 per cent discount on their electricity bills, as he took stock ...

Some people are interested in making bitcoin investments, but they hesitate to do so because they think they don’t know how to do it. If you also belong to ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon (AMZN....

Deputy Minister of Shipping Vasilis Demetriades stressed the importance of digital technology for the maritime sector during his speech at the CSN Cyprus Shipping ICT Conference in Limassol on Thursday. “...

The Apollonion Private Hospital in Nicosia has officially been acquired by the American investment fund CVC Capital Partners. The signing of the contract and the completion of the acquisition was ...

Boeing Co (BA.N) and US regulators said Thursday that some titanium 787 Dreamliner parts were improperly manufactured over the past three years, the latest in a series of problems to ...