The move comes in the wake of HSBC’s lawyers urging a federal appeals court to not to reveal Michel Cherkasky’s reports. In a telling development, Hong Kong-based AIA Group’s President and CEO has stated that he will be leaving the… Read More ›
Entrepreneurship
Assange Offers Hacking Tools to Tech Companies Following Wikileaks’ Latest Revelation Of CIA’s Hacking
Presenting Silicon Valley with a potential dilemma on how to deal with the anti-secrecy group, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that it will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools that it possesses so they can patch… Read More ›
China’s HNA Group seeks to boost stake in Deutsche Bank
For the Chinese, this is likely to be a strategic investment to get a foothold in the European financial sector. Two sources with knowledge of the matter have revealed that the Chinese conglomerate, the HNA Group, is seeking to increase… Read More ›
Tesla offers Australia a helping hand to solve its massive power outages
Australia desperately needs within the next 2 years more installations of wind and solar energy plants to avert severe blackouts. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, has offered to save Australians from their dependency from the state by installing battery storage worth… Read More ›
VW set to plead guilty to emissions in the U.S.
While there have been hundreds of articles saying how much pollution VW has caused with its cheating scandal for which it has now agreed to pay up to $25 billion in fines in the U.S. alone, with the Trump administration… Read More ›
Trump Administration could reset U.S. Japan relations back to the 1980s
While the U.S. government may want Japan to open up its agricultural sector, Japan would prefer that the talks revolve around issues such as foreign direct investment, infrastructure and energy. Japan has outright rejected U.S. demands for more access to… Read More ›
EDF Energies Nouvelles in the fray for purchasing SunPower’s 100MW El Pelicano solar plant
The solar industry in Chile is in the midst of a consolidation. As per two sources with knowledge of the process have disclosed that SunPower Corp has placed the 100-megawatt El Pelicano solar plant up for sale, as part of… Read More ›
Wind Power Blows Through Nuclear, Coal as Costs Plunge at Sea
Unless you add some wind, water and electric power plants don’t mix well naturally. What is being described as an engineering miracle at the very least is developers are putting jumbo-jet sized wind turbines into stormy seas in the renewable… Read More ›
Resurgence of U.S. shale oil changes the balance of power with traditional oil producers
U.S. shale producers realise that with great power comes great responsibility. In what could potentially offset OPEC’s move to cut oil productions so as to reduce the glut in the global oil pool, U.S. shale oil producers are plotting an… Read More ›
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon to benefit from Congress overturning Obama Administration’s privacy rules
Earlier under the Obama Administration’s rules, ISPs would have to obtain consumer consent before they are allowed to use financial, health and children’s information using geo-location through their web- browsing history for advertising and internal marketing purposes. The U.S. Congress… Read More ›