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Netherlands blocks US firm from buying DigiD cloud host
TL;DR The Netherlands blocked IBM spinoff Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity, the cloud provider that hosts the Dutch digital identity…
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Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels
Right now, Bob said: "Every day there's mail left behind, one, maybe two, maybe three rounds which are not covered… The tracked recorded…
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A family fights to keep control of 157-year-old firm in Japan
Nearly half of Japan’s listed companies are tied to a founding family, many of which no longer have enough equity to guarantee control…
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Labour think tank commissioned firm to investigate journalists, the BBC understands
In a contract addressed to Simons, seen by BBC News, APCO Worldwide agreed to investigate "the sourcing, funding and origins" of the…
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Gold falls 1.5% on firm US dollar, silver recovers from over three-week low
Gold extended falls on Monday (Feb 2), pressured by a firm US dollar, as investors gauged US President Donald Trump’s Fed chair pick Kevin…
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Chip firm ASML to slash 1,700 jobs and posts record profit for 2025 thanks to AI boom
Dutch semiconductor chip machine maker ASML recorded a record net profit of 9.6 billion euros ($11.5 billion) in 2025 on sales of 32.7…
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SoftBank-backed analytics firm Patsnap weighs dual listing in Hong Kong and Singapore
Patsnap, an intellectual-property data provider, is mulling a dual listing in Hong Kong and Singapore, according to people familiar with…
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SoftBank stops talks to buy data centre firm Switch
O] SoftBank Group has halted talks about an acquisition of US data centre operator Switch, a setback to founder Masayoshi Son’s ambition…
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Spanish Outdoor Furniture Firm Kettal Takes Majority Stake in Italy’s Driade
MILAN — Nemo Group, which acquired Driade in October 2024, has sold a majority stake in the Italian furniture house to Spain’s Kettal…
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Most scientific inventions don’t leave the lab. This VC firm is changing that
While working as an engineer at Tesla, Niccolo Cymbalist never planned to start a business. But he’d been considering an idea for new…
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JPMorgan eclipses Dimensional as world’s biggest active ETF firm
The bank’s asset management arm currently controls nearly US$257 billion in active ETFs worldwide JPMorgan Asset Management has a new…
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US lifts import ban on Malaysian palm oil firm FGV Holdings
The United States has lifted a ban on Malaysian palm oil firm FGV Holdings, after finding that the company had taken sufficient action to…
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Renee Good's family hires law firm George Floyd's family hired to look into Minneapolis ICE shooting
Renee Good's family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother as she attempted to follow agents'…
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Global EV sales growth likely to slow after 20% jump in rocky 2025: research firm
GLOBAL EV registrations grew 20 per cent last year but are likely to lose pace in 2026, data showed on Wednesday, as a slowdown in China…
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From Bella Hadid to Olivia Dean—This “Dated” Hairstyle Is Poised to Make a Firm Comeback in 2026
If there's one word to describe winter 2026 hair trends, it's nostalgia—think Old Hollywood updos and pixies, '60s-inspired baby bangs,…
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Sandal Firm That Cites Jacqueline Kennedy Its Muse Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
The Palm Beach Sandal Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection this week. Citing former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy as…
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Nam Cheong sells vessel for US$20.5 million to Vietnam firm
The sale is expected to contribute positively to the group’s earnings for the financial year ending 2025 Malaysian offshore support vessel…
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Chinese AI firm MiniMax to launch Hong Kong IPO in early January
The firm develops multimodal AI models which can process text, audio, images, video and music Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm…
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Grab to acquire Chinese firm Infermove to expand in AI robotics
Grab Holdings has acquired Chinese tech company Infermove to expand in artificial intelligence-enabled robotics for food delivery. Grab…
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Why the Hell Is Trump Media Merging With a Nuclear Fusion Firm?
Shareholders from each company will own 50 percent of the new entity as a result of the deal, which the companies say will be completed in…
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Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion firm in $6bn deal
The firm behind President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is merging with a Google-backed energy company in a deal valued at more…
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Trump Media, fusion power firm TAE Technologies combine in US$6 billion deal
Under the deal, shareholders of both companies will own about 50% of the combined entity US President Donald Trump’s social media firm is…
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Why fintech firm Bilt is funding its own original series 'Roomies'
At the Angelika Film Center in New York earlier this month, 115 people gathered around the theater’s big screen. But it wasn’t to watch a…
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Warburg Pincus to invest up to US$1 billion in corporate services firm Acclime
The private equity firm beat rival firms Carlyle Group, Blackstone, KKR and TPG in a bidding race American private equity firm Warburg…