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BIMA raises $30 million for digital health and insurance
BIMA is one of the top growing health and insurance organizations, based in London and Stockholm. The startup now serves more than 35 million people in 9 different emerging markets from Asia and Africa. Since the rise of COVID and the significance of...
Amazon
Amazon takes down five-star reviews fraud in the UK
Amazon recently caught its top reviewers in the UK involved in a fraud. Around 20,000 reviews were removed from the amazon website after an investigation. Evidence was found where thousands of reviews were made in exchange for money. Nine out of the UK's top...
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Google and Facebook to pay Australian media companies for using content
Australia is in the process of forcing Google and Facebook, the digital giants, to pay local media companies for using their news content. The Federal Government has asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - ACCC to develop a code of conduct for...
Amazon
How bad COVID-19 has hit the tech industry
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 so far has a devastating impact on the U.S. and many other state's economies. As all the affected countries are trying to stem the spread of the virus, life seems to be slowly grinding to a halt. This grind...
Business
Amazon is hiring for 100,000 positions to support its services with an unprecedented increase in demand amid Coronavirus
Amazon plans to hire more than 100,000 workers to assist in online deliveries in the USA, the UK, and many countries in the EU. Besides hiring, Amazon announced it will increase pay, through April, in the USA by $2 per hour, 2 pounds...
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Apple fined a record $1.2 billion by the French competition authority
Apple is fined for 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) on Monday by France's antitrust authority "Autorite de la concurrence" for being guilty of creating a cartel within its distribution network. Apple distributors, Tech Data and Ingram Micro were also sanctioned for 76.1 million...
Amazon
Amazon employee tests positive for coronavirus – in Seattle and Italy
Amazon has confirmed an employee in Seattle is tested a positive coronavirus. "The employee went home feeling unwell on Tuesday, February 25 and has not entered Amazon offices since that time," an official email said. The online tech company, Amazon.com Inc, informed its staff at Amazon's...
Apple
Foxconn expects to bring workers back to work by the end of March
Foxconn is bringing its workers back to work to resume the normal production in China by the end of March. More than half of the workforce has already started working following the coronavirus outbreak. The Taiwanese firm, Foxconn, stopped and postponed the production due...
Business
Toyota invests $400 million in Pony.ai for Level 4 autonomous cars
Pony.ai, an autonomous driving startup based in China, has received a total of $462 million in the latest funding round, led by Toyota Motor Corporation. The largest Japanese automaker has funded $400 million into Pony.ai, followed by Sequoia, KUNLUN, IDG Captial, and ClearVue Partners. The...
Business
Snap announces the third cohort of Yellow Accelerator Program
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Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, has launched the third cohort of its Yellow accelerator program. The program, debuted in 2018, was started to bring in creative minds and entrepreneurs to build great media companies for the next generation. The main aim of...
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