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Elon Musk, currently ranked as the richest person in the world, put a “#bitcoin#’” on his twitter profile page on Friday, and the price of a coin jumped 14 per cent. ...

British Airways announced on Friday that it was planning to use the Verifly app to check vaccination, Covid-19 testing and other health status certifications on smartphones. Trials with the app, ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission waded into the battle between small investors and Wall Street hedge funds on Friday, warning brokerages and social-media traders it was on alert ...

Royal Dutch Shell is liable for the damage caused by oil spills in Nigeria, an appeals court in the Hague said in a verdict announced on Friday. The environmental group ...

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and his new US counterpart Janet Yellen agreed to seek an international agreement on new rules for taxing multinational businesses, the US Treasury and ...

The British pound retreated on Thursday from the multi-month highs it hit in the previous session, as investors tempered some of their optimism about COVID-19 vaccinations in the UK. Sterling ...

Lebanese Central Bank (Banque du Liban) Governor Riad Salameh has been charged with dereliction of duty and breach of trust, the state news agency reported on Thursday. Judge Ghada Aoun ...

An expanded number of models and a new look for the iPhone 12 lineup, Apple’s first 5G-enabled devices, tapped pent up demand for upgrades, especially in China. Shipments hit 90.1 million ...

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that he is banning Vokswagen from official government service. The German automaker is in the process of pulling out of Turkey, after ...

Wizz Air on Thursday announced the addition of three new destinations from/to Larnaca. There will be new routes to Oslo, Tel Aviv and Kharkov along with the allocation of ...

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp overtook Germany’s Volkswagen in vehicle sales last year, regaining pole position as the world’s top selling automaker for the first time in five ...

Pimco, or the Pacific Investment Management Company, is an American investment management firm founded in 1971 in California. The firm focuses on bonds and today manages more than $1.92 trillion in assets. ...

ECONOMIC sentiment weakened in Cyprus in January, yet businesses expect to keep employment stable, according to a survey by the Economic Research Centre at the University of Cyprus. “In January 2021, ...

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg told the Davos Agenda forum on Friday that “current targets for climate change equal surrender.” Her message was: “My name is Greta Thunberg and I’m ...

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50 per cent, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic ...

The inauguration yesterday of Joe Biden as 46th US president is, overall, good news for European investors. The most basic element of progress is unquestionably that the turmoil of the ...

The Harvard Business Review recently asked this question, noting that about 25 per cent of CEOs are thanked for their service and dismissed before their contracts are up. There is definitely ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that a “new cold war” could turn hot, and must be avoided, in a speech on Monday at World Economic Forum’s virtual “Davos Agenda” ...

The pandemic and lockdown has businesses all over Cyprus finding ways to work via online communications. Never has the need for a secure and efficient computer network been greater. But, ...

by InvestCyprus Cyprus is evolving, attracting new investment with business-friendly initiatives that have substantially increased the island’s appeal in today’s hi-tech world, and part of that is an ...

“Blockchain technology follows the so called Gartner’s Hype Cycle that all nascent technologies go through. A lot of hype initially, many promises, people trying to invest or make money ...

RISE recently developed the Covid-19 contact tracing application which will be put to work in Cyprus within a few weeks of this publication. We’ll be able to identify if ...

Boeing Co said on Friday it will begin delivering commercial airplanes capable of flying on 100 per cent biofuel by the end of the decade, calling reducing environmental damage from fossil ...

Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a $100 million prize for development of the ‘best’ technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions. Capturing ...