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Heineken (HEIN.AS) sold more beer than expected in the first quarter, reporting its first year-on-year growth in quarterly volumes in a year, as it kept its 2024 profit growth forecast. ...

A spike in power usage from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers could significantly boost natural gas demand in the second half of the decade, analysts at investment banker Tudor Pickering ...

German email service Tuta Mail has complained to European Union tech regulators about what it described as a sudden drop in Google search results on the day the bloc’s ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting April 22: Former Cyprus Airways CEO Paul Sies has joined travel-tech company Journey Mentor as president and chief executive ...

Britain’s competition watchdog said this week that it was seeking comments on the AI partnerships between Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Mistral AI, as well as between Amazon (AMZN.O) ...

Chinese tech company Huawei (HWT.UL) unveiled this week a new software brand for intelligent driving, marking its latest push to become a major player in the electric vehicle industry. ...

Apple’s smartphone shipments in China tumbled 19 per cent in the first quarter of the year, the worst performance since 2020, as the iPhone maker took a hit from Huawei’s (...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis this week addressed the growing need for foreign workers in Cyprus’ tourism sector, attributing it to the surge in tourist arrivals exacerbating labour shortages. ...

Elon Musk’s new plan to use current product lines as the basis for new affordable vehicles — rather than springing for all-new models — follows the playbook of Tesla’s old-school ...

British travel company Jet2 (JET2.L) has forecast a 33 per cent jump in its annual profit, and said 55 per cent of seats were sold for this summer season on strong ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Friday reported an increase in both loans and total deposits within the Cypriot banking system for March 2024. According to the CBC, liquidity, measured ...

US auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is ...

Cyprus emerges prominently in recently released Eurostat data, both as a country with a high proportion of overqualified workers, and as a leader in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis on Friday acknowledged that the Cypriot tourism sector is in need of foreign workers, noting that the increase in tourist arrivals has further exacerbated ...

A meeting was held this week in Guangzhou, China, which brought together the Deputy Minister of Shipping, Marina Hadjimanolis, the president of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) ...

Eurozone consumers lowered their expectation for inflation over the next 12 months in March but continued to see price growth above the European Central Bank’s 2 per cent target further out, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides this week expressed confidence in Cyprus’ ability to successfully the current global climate, dominated by uncertainty and instability, despite numerous regional and geopolitical developments. He also stated ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has calculated the reference interest rate at 11.42 per cent, exercising the powers granted to it by Article 314A of the Criminal Code Law, Chapter 154. ...

Microsoft and Google showed investors that heavy artificial intelligence investment can pay off with rising revenue, allaying concerns raised a day earlier by Meta, which said its expensive foray into ...

The Economics Research Centre (CypERC) of the University of Cyprus has updated its economic forecasts, indicating stronger growth and lower inflation expectations for the upcoming years. The report details several ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has accused the United States of exerting pressure on Turkey’s national airline to bar Russian citizens from flights bound to Mexico. His comments ...

Hellenic Bank on Thursday announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations and a put option with CNP Assurances for the acquisition of its subsidiary CNP Cyprus Insurance Holdings Limited, ...

British retailers suffered their worst April for sales since 2020, when the country was in its first COVID-19 lockdown, although the timing of the Easter holidays could be to blame, a ...

Unilever (ULVR.L) beat first-quarter sales forecasts on Thursday as the maker of Dove soaps and Hellmann’s mayonnaise won back shoppers who had traded down to cheaper products during ...