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NEW DELHI: Lessors to India's Jet Airways are planning to ask the country's aviation regulator to de-register many more planes leased to the airline, three sources told Reuters, signaling that a planned bailout of the troubled carrier is failing to assuage their concerns. About six of Jet's ...

Hatch Entertainment, a spin-off from Angry Birds game maker Rovio, has struck a deal to offer 5G gaming on Samsung devices in South Korea, Rovio said on Friday.

BUCHAREST: Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday (Apr 5) that France would stick to plans for a tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple, despite displeasure in Washington. "We are determined to implement a tax on the largest digital companies to bring more justice and...

STOCKHOLM: Swedbank Chairman Lars Idermark has quit only a week after the lender's chief executive was ousted over her handling of a money laundering scandal, saying the controversy threatened to distract from his role as head of forestry group Sodra. The bank, Sweden's biggest mortgage lender ...

SAN FRANCISCO: US securities regulators shot down attempts by Amazon.com to stop its investors from considering two shareholder proposals about the company's controversial sale of a facial recognition service, a sign of growing scrutiny of the technology. Decisions including one on Wednesday (Apr ...

NEW YORK: Bitcoin's trading volume dropped to a two-year low in March, digital currency trading tool provider TradeBlock said in a report on Thursday, as investors remained spooked by increased regulatory scrutiny. Bitcoin volume in the top five digital currency exchanges totalled US$2.14 billion ...

SEOUL: LG Electronics's operating profit likely fell by a smaller-than-expected 19 per cent in the first quarter, even as losses in its mobile business and rising competition in the television segment pushed its revenue down to below consensus. Shares of the South Korean firm trimmed earlier gains ...

A new feature, called Venues, uses pictures and words to guide commuters from where they are to the pick-up point they had indicated on the map.

The US$35 billion (S$47.41 billion) divorce settlement sees Bezos retaining voting control of his entire US$143 billion (S$193.67 billion) stake in the company.

Oil prices fell on Friday, with Brent slipping away from the US$70 mark after briefly rising above that level in the previous session, as traders fretted about progress in U.S.-China talks to end a trade war.