Category: 1. Iran

Dec 8 : IBM said on Monday it will buy data infrastructure company Confluent in a deal valued at $11 billion, ramping up its cloud-computing offerings to capitalize on an AI-driven demand boom. 

Big Blue, under CEO Arvind Krishna, has doubled…

LONDON/NEW YORK, Dec 8 : The U.S. dollar rose against major currencies on Monday in choppy trading ahead of a week packed with central bank meetings and headlined by the Federal Reserve, where an interest rate cut is all but priced in, but…

When contacted for more information, CCS said that it has been “stepping up” enforcement against businesses that utilise dark patterns, or website design features to mislead or deceive customers.

It pointed to actions it took against Agoda and

JAKARTA, Dec 8 : Indonesia plans from January 1 to require natural resource exporters to retain all foreign currency earnings in state-owned banks for at least a year, and limit their use, finance ministry officials said on Monday.

Indonesia has…

Dec 8 : Japan’s SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Skild AI, in a more than $1 billion funding round that could value the maker of foundation models for robots at around $14 billion, according to sources and a term sheet seen by…

BENGALURU, Dec 8 : Amnesty International has said India’s review of a telecom industry proposal to mandate always-on satellite location tracking on phones for better lawful surveillance was “deeply concerning” and puts data of human rights…

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 : Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos – a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the macrostructure of the universe…

(Corrects headline and paragraph 1 to say that Intel is one of the major customers, not the first)

Dec 8 : India’s Tata Electronics has secured Intel as a prospective customer for its upcoming chip facilities, potentially signalling the U.S….

BRUSSELS, Dec 8 : Meta’s proposal to use less personal data for targeted advertising in its pay-or-consent model that will be rolled out next month won the approval of EU antitrust regulators on Monday, signaling the company will not face daily…