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Apple set for big sales decline as investors await AI in iPhones
APPLE’S plan to add generative artificial intelligence (AI) to its iPhones and revive sagging sales in the crucial Chinese market will be in focus on Thursday (May 2), when...
Microsoft, Brookfield to partner on renewable energy projects
CANADA’S Brookfield Asset Management and technology giant Microsoft will develop new wind and solar farms in an attempt to bring over 10.5 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity,...
Actively managed funds ‘bleed’ client cash in ESG upheaval
A LONG-HELD truism of ESG (environmental, social and governance) is being challenged, namely the idea that the strategy is best-suited to active fund management.For 11 of the past 12...
China’s electric cars keep improving, a worry for rivals elsewhere
CARMAKERS in China are building a new generation of bigger, more technologically advanced and competitive electric cars, threatening to leap further ahead of their global rivals as they step...
GSK profit drops in first quarter on higher costs
BRITISH drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on Wednesday (May 1) said its net profit fell 23 per cent in the first quarter as the company faced higher exceptional costs compared with...
GSK profit drops 23% in Q1 on higher costs
BRITISH drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on Wednesday (May 1) said that its net profit fell 23 per cent in the first quarter as the company faced higher exceptional costs compared...
Amazon’s Twitch starts rival to TikTok in short-form video
Amazon.com’s livestreaming site Twitch launched its own short-form video platform, a week after passage of a law that threatens the future of the social-media service TikTok in the US.Creators...
Binance founder Zhao Changpeng gets 4 months in prison
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was ordered to spend four months in prison for failures that allowed cybercriminals and terrorist groups to freely trade on the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.Zhao,...
