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Smart glasses: Optic 2000 celebrates 50 years of innovation

The last edition of Las Vegas’ global innovation exhibition has been marked with French eyewear specialist Optic 2000’s 50th anniversary. After decades of focusing mainly on optics and design, the French firm is now addressing the next era of glasses: technology integration.

Researchers Suggest Previous Studies On Smartphone Addiction May Be Flawed

Researchers are now suggesting the there are some serious flaws in a large majority of studies and surveys that have been conducted in recent times which examines the impact on the psychological...

Myth Of Positive Health Impact Of Moderate Drinking Debunked In New Study

Earlier studies which had given rise to the notion that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke have been negated in the results of a major genetic study which has also claimed a very...

Walmart US President Appointed As New Chief Executive Of Air New Zealand

Lyft Files Case Against New York City Over New Cruising Following Uber

Case Filed In Australia Against Bayer By A Local Farmer Over Alleged Cancer Caused By Its Weedkiller

Chilean Grocery Startup To Be Acquired By Uber After A Failed Attempt By Walmart

WeWork Burns More Cash By Fact Paced Opening Up Opens New Sites

VW Mulling Lamborghini Restructuring – A Sale Or IPO: Reports

Toyota Bets Strongly On Its Hydrogen-Powered Cars

Boeing And Porsche To Jointly Develop Electric Flying Cars

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US Opioid Case: Purdue Pharma Files For Bankruptcy In Its Attempt For A Settlement

Purdue Pharma, one of the companies allegedly behind the opiod crisis in the United States and one that has allegedly minted billions through sale of prescription painkiller OxyContin, has ultimately filed for bankruptcy at White Plains, New York, after thousands of cases related to the opioid...

Huawei Founder Offers Sharing Of Its 5G Tech With Western Companies For A Fee

Huawei has proposed selling off its current 5G know-how to a company in the West so that the security concerns surrounding the company among some of the Western countries and those that have been voiced by the United States president Donald Trump could be addressed. This proposal was made by the...

Hong Kong Stock exchange's $39 billion acquisition offer bluntly rejected by London Stock Exchange

The unilateral offer by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for purchasing the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for $39 billion was rejected by the LSE on Friday and has decided to continue with its planned acquisition of data and analytics group Refinitiv. Following the rejection, the path open to...

Walt Disney Studios To Move Cloud In Partnership With Microsoft

Some of the most important parts of its movie making and distribution process of the Walt Disney Studios will be moved to the cloud in partnership with Microsoft. Disney’s StudioLab, and internal innovation incubation lab, will be heading this transformation that is supposed to take place...

London Stock Exchange Likely To Reject Merger Offer By Hong Kong: Reports

Amidst questions being raised about political risk and deal structure, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is set to denounce the acquisition offer of £32bn made by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, claimed reports quoting unnamed sources informed about the matter. Investors at the LSE were...

Controlling Stake in Leading Japanese Fashion E-Retailer Zozo To Be Bought By Yahoo Japan For $3.7 Billion

Japan’s largest online fashion retailer Zozo Inc will be taken over by Yahoo Japan Corp in a deal worth 400 billion yen ($3.7 billion),, the later said. This move will help the online fashion retailer to make additions and innovations to its business in order to compete with the companies such as...

Its Huge Hong Kong IPO To Be Resurrected By The World’s Largest Brewer

The global brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev is set to revive its earlier announced and later stalled plans of launching of an initial public offering for its Asia business at the Hong Kong stock exchange. The company has resumed its application for the listing after it had stalled the process two...

Facebook Attempts To Stay Ahead Of Forthcoming Privacy Changes In iOS

A blog post detailing how the social media platform Facebook is dependent on location data of users and how new updates of iOS and Android software impacts access of the company to that information was published by the company on Monday. "Facebook is better with location" read the Facebook...

Julien Balkany, an energy entrepreneur firmly based in London

At 38 years old, Julien Balkany has made a name for himself on the other side of the Atlantic. He has been managing the natural resources investment fund Nanes Balkany Partners that he co-founded a decade ago, concomitantly he is the chairman of the board of Norwegian oil and gas company Panoro...

Apple And Foxconn Admit Their Over Reliance On Chinese Temporary Workers

While admitting that they had employed much more temporary workers in China than required, tech giant Apple and its major supplier and manufacturer Foxconn refuted allegation by a non-profit monitor of worker rights that the companies had faulty people management strategies or polices in China....

Chinese Market Eyed By US’s Impossible Foods With Its Meat Alternatives

The Chinese market is being eyed by the United States based alternative meat producer Impossible Foods Inc. However its efforts could hit a roadblock because of regulatory hurdles. According to Impossible Food founder and CEO Patrick Brown, the company is currently in negotiations with a...

TechCrunch Allegedly Gained Access To Data Of 400 Million Facebook Users

A database of Facebook that contained unprotected unique IDs and phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users was found by news outlet TechCrunch and this data was kept in a server that was easily accessible by anyone. The data base has been taken down and the fault that allowed anyone to...