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By identifying the gender of chicks in their eggs, EU-funded technologies could help prevent the killing of millions of the birds every year. By Pieter Devuyst Wil Stutterheim is on ...

Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, ...

The US Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday released an announcement summarizing all of the actions and initiatives it carried out as part of this year’s Global Money ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Friday announced that it offering grants between €2,000 and €5,000 for the development of the domestic Bee Economy, through a new purpose-built scheme, ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) cut prices in the United States between 2 per cent and nearly 6 per cent, its website showed on Thursday, as the company extends a discount drive on its ...

The US economy likely continued to churn out jobs at a brisk clip in March even though the labor market is losing its luster as Federal Reserve interest rate hikes ...

The Bank of Cyprus has once again been recognised as the best bank in Cyprus for 2023 in Private Banking, marking the seventh time the institution has received this accolade, according ...

This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) results demonstrate that entrepreneurial education at the school and post-school level in Cyprus is limited. According to the 2021/2022 NES, entrepreneurial training scored lower ...

Egypt’s headline inflation rate is set to hit an all-time high in March, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, following a continued shortage of foreign currency after more than ...

The United States and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) reached a settlement on Thursday over the tech firm’s apparent violations of sanctions and export controls, which it disclosed voluntarily, the ...

Shares of Airbnb Inc (ABNB.O) fell as much as 6 per cent on Thursday after an online independent publication released a report that probed unpleasant experiences that customers had during ...

The Bank of Cyprus on Thursday announced the establishment of a Sustainable Bond Issuance Framework, with a strategic goal of supporting the nation’s shift towards a more sustainable operational ...

The collapse of crypto exchange FTX and its grant-making body, the FTX Future Fund, has left some researchers at top universities without the funds they were promised and others trying ...

Sibur, the largest producer and exporter of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Russia, redirected exports to Africa, the Middle East and Asia in the past three months, industry sources said. ...

Swiss lender Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) has won a $41 million lawsuit against a member of the Saudi royal family over a loan to refinance a super yacht, with London’s ...

Global Finance Magazine recently released its annual list of the best banks in Western Europe for 2023, with Hellenic Bank taking the top spot in Cyprus. According to an announcement by ...

The Russian government on Wednesday said it had approved a deal for Spain’s Inditex (ITX.MC) to sell its Russian business to a UAE-based buyer, with some of its ...

Oil remained on track for weekly gains on Thurday, with further production cuts targeted by OPEC+ and a drop in US oil inventories overshadowing fears over global economic growth. Brent ...

Global trade growth in 2023 will slow to 1.7 per cent, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in its annual trade statistics and outlook report, published on Wednesday. The volume of world ...

Crypto exchange Binance, which has been sued by US regulators, said this week that it is expanding services in inflation-hit Argentina, allowing users to buy and sell digital currencies directly ...

Complaints from consumers about banks and other financial firms in Germany rose by a fifth last year, official data shows, as regulators flex their muscles to shore up trust in ...

The Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) this week said that Cypriot banks have persisted with low deposit rates despite the ECB recently hiking the interest rate by 0.5 per ...

The House Price Index in Cyprus fell by 4 per cent during the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to the previous quarter, falling to 108.03 points, down from 112.51, according to a preliminary estimate ...