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Companies need to do more to get to grips with AI at board level to govern how it is being used and to minimise risks, a top official at Norway’...

Smartphone shipments in the Middle East, excluding Turkey, reached 11.5 million units in the second quarter of 2024, marking a robust 20 per cent year-on-year increase, according to industry analysts Canalys. The company ...

Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified ...

Palo Alto Networks has projected fiscal 2025 revenue and profit exceeding Wall Street expectations, indicating strong demand for its cybersecurity products amid an increasingly complex digital threat landscape. Its shares rose ...

Battery maker Northvolt will shut down and shift development of lithium-metal battery technology from California to its R&D hub in Vasteras, Sweden, the company announced. The decision is ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting August 19: A total of 6.6 million passengers traveled through Cyprus’ airports between January and July this year, according to ...

A growing number of European Central Bank policymakers are lining up behind another interest rate cut in September and only major data surprises in the coming weeks could delay the ...

A new video game title launched by a Tencent-backed (0700.HK) startup has quickly become the most-played game on a major online platform, highlighting growing interest in Chinese-developed titles. “Black Myth: ...

AMD (AMD.O) said this week it plans to acquire server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as the company seeks to expand its portfolio of artificial intelligence chips and hardware ...

Russian pork producers are aiming to capture 10 per cent of China’s pork import market in the coming years from a standing start, seeking to take advantage of trade tensions ...

Cyprus has seen its debt-to-GDP ratio drop to 72.3 per cent, marking a substantial decrease of nearly 10 percentage points over the past year. According to a report released on Friday from ...

The benefits of California’s revised bill that seeks to regulate how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed in the state likely outweigh the costs, Anthropic said this week. San ...

HSBC (HSBA.L) aims to double the assets under management in its British wealth business to 100 billion pounds ($131 billion) in the next five years, the division’s head told Reuters, ...

Action camera maker GoPro (GPRO.O) has announced that it will cut about 15 per cent of its workforce this year, as part of a restructuring plan to reduce operating expenses. ...

BMW (BMWG.DE) is recalling 720,796 US vehicles over concerns of a short circuit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said this week. “An improperly sealed electrical connector on the water ...

The Cypriot economy is on an upward trajectory and displaying resilience, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Friday, after briefing the Cabinet on the semi-annual fiscal policy report. In remarks ...

Chanel has bought a 25 per cent stake in high-end Swiss watchmaker MB&F, known for its quirky watch designs, the French luxury house has announced, adding it was part ...

Eurobank has announced the new board members it will propose for Hellenic Bank ahead of the general assembly scheduled for September 18. According to the proposal, Petros Christodoulou is set to ...

The Althaia barge, a new floating cold ironing unit powered by compressed biomethane, was recently launched at Limassol port, as part of the BioCNG-to-CI project. This initiative, which took place ...

Cyprus has seen its debt-to-GDP ratio drop to 72.3 per cent, marking a substantial decrease of nearly 10 percentage points over the past year. According to a report released on Friday from ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has announced that it has withdrawn the registration of the ‘Investment Compartment – Real Estate (RAIF76_1)‘, under RAIF Prime Property Services P.P. RAIF ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) this week issued an urgent warning regarding the existence of fraudulent websites that are falsely claiming to be associated with the regulatory body. ...

Oil prices were little changed on Friday but on track to end the week lower, as weaker US employment data raised concerns over demand, and renewed ceasefire talks in Gaza ...

Lebanon’s acting central bank governor has said that his institution was still striving to prevent being placed on a “grey list” of countries under special scrutiny by a financial ...