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Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Thursday said it plans to work with community colleges across the United States to fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs over the next four years. Microsoft said it ...

The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) high-level conference on Covid-19 took place earlier this month, with the conference exploring the issues around the aviation industry’s recovery, as well ...

According to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), industrial production marked a year-on-year increase of 9.3 per cent in the period of January – August 2021. According to the Cystat data, the Industrial Production ...

Facebook Inc (FB.O) is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on investing in the “metaverse,” a shared virtual environment that it bets ...

Hopes of an imminent breakthrough in deliveries of Boeing Co’s (BA.N) 787 jetliner were fading on Tuesday after a top supplier reported a lull in activity and two industry ...

Volvo Cars is hoping investors will buy into its long-term electric vehicle strategy and see past supply chain worries and questions about its shift to battery power as it gears ...

Higher inflation and rising taxation to fund growing demand for healthcare and other public services will cause living standards in Britain to barely rise over the coming year, the Institute ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has fined Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus’ largest lender, €277,000 over violations of the anti-money laundering law in the period 2008 until 2015. An AML audit in the ...

Britain plans to spend a million pounds ($1.37 million) on a proposed electric Extreme E off-road race in the Outer Hebrides next year, the series said on Wednesday. Finance minister Rishi ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) suffered a setback on Wednesday as EU antitrust regulators opened a full-scale investigation into its $54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM on concerns the deal could ...

Quant Insight (Qi), a new quantitative financial market analytics and trading insights provider, announced on Wednesday that it has opened its new headquarters in Limassol. The company also has offices ...

The total amount of non-performing loans (NPLs) decreased by approximately €8 million in July over the previous month. This has resulted in a reduction of the NPLs index to 17.4 per cent ...

Some U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed taxing billionaires’ unrealized gains from their assets to help finance President Joe Biden’s social-policy and climate-change agenda, according to the top ...

The House justice committee on Wednesday started discussion on the establishment of a commercial and maritime disputes court, in a bid to speed up legal procedures and boost Cyprus’ prospects ...

Phil Orlando has not heard this many people mentioning stagflation since he was a financial journalist in the late 1970s, when oil prices were soaring and inflation stood at more ...

Vegetable prices are surging in China after heavy rain swamped crops this month, fuelling concern over food prices at a time when consumers must brace for a hike in energy ...

German sportswear company Puma (PUMG.DE) increased its 2021 sales outlook on Wednesday even as it highlighted supply-chain pressures from a coronavirus lockdown in Vietnam, port congestion and container shortages. Factories ...

Turkey’s foreign trade deficit fell 47.5 per cent year-on-year in September to $2.547 billion according to the general trade system, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute showed on Wednesday. After trade ...

An executive at TikTok faced tough questions on Tuesday during the video-sharing app’s first appearance at a US congressional hearing, saying it does not give information to the Chinese ...

BP’s trading team made at least $500 million in the third quarter of 2021, two sources with knowledge of the company’s trading results said, as the energy major benefitted from ...

Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Christodoulos Angastiniotis has accused labour unions of making demands that are both unrealistic and unfeasible for businesses. “Unions must realise the severity of ...

Hellenic Bank has released new eco-friendly credit and debit cards made out of biodegradable material. Available since Monday, October 25, in Mastercard form, the new cards require 82 per cent less PVC (...

Analysts at Europe’s biggest bank HSBC (HSBA.L) have turned bullish on Chinese stocks, arguing the worst of a regulatory storm has passed and that Beijing will provide policy ...

Eurozone banks tightened access to mortgages in the three months to September and expect to continue doing so in the final quarter of the year, a European Central Bank survey ...