2 mn read Defence technology company Anduril Industries and the Australian Defence Force are entering into commercial negotiations for a US$100m co-funded design, development and manufacturing program for Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XL-AUVs) for the Royal Australian Navy.
< 1 mn read Today, the video platform Rumble announced that Truth Social, the social media platform created by the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has successfully migrated its website and mobile applications to Rumble’s cloud infrastructure. This migration will enable the Truth Social platform to scale significantly on a new and cancel-culture-free cloud platform. Truth Social’s move also marks the first significant customer to onboard with Rumble’s cloud services business.
5 mn read The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report has never been so alarming, natural disasters are multiplying, and more and more climate refugees are fleeing their lands. The current context pushes citizens and companies to act for the planet in view of the political inaction that a large part of the population considers. 76% of people agree that CEOs should take the lead on change rather than waiting for government to impose it (an 11-point increase from the 2018 study). But what role do companies have nowadays in the face of the climate emergency?
2 mn read Acer Inc. (2353.TW) announced today its consolidated revenues for March at NT$30.31 billion, up 9.2% year-on-year (YoY) and 32.3% month-over-month. Preliminary consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2022 reached NT$78.37 billion, up 9.5% YoY, and marking the highest quarter of the same period in nine years. Acer’s public subsidiaries have all announced their March revenues, and their first quarter revenues have risen by 37.1% YoY in total.
2 mn read Leading conservative news and entertainment media company The Daily Wire and Cumulus Media, a top audio-first media company, today announced a new syndication agreement to deliver Daily Wire digital content to Cumulus radio station websites in key markets across the United States. Under the terms of the deal, Daily Wire breaking news, original reporting, sports, and entertainment coverage by The Daily Wire is now available on more than 50 Cumulus radio station websites, with plans to expand in the coming weeks.
4 mn read Today Discovery, Inc. and AT&T Inc.* (NYSE:T) announced that they have closed their transaction to combine the WarnerMedia business with Discovery. The combination creates a premier standalone global media and entertainment company, Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., which will begin trading on the Nasdaq with the start of trading on Monday, April 11, under the new ticker symbol “WBD.”
3 mn read A filing by Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows that the world’s richest man, worth about $273 billion, purchased nearly 73.5 million shares, making him Twitter’s top shareholder. Twitter Inc. subsequently appointed Elon Musk to its board of directors. Conservatives are excited by the news that Musk will suspend Twitter’s “speech censorship” of users. However, this incident will not make former President Trump happy. His new social platform, Truth Social, is delayed, and conservative users who would have joined Truth Social may return to Twitter.
2 mn read SINGAPORE, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Binance, the global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest ecosystem, today announced it has appointed Rohit Wad, former Corporate VP at Microsoft, as its CTO, and Mayur Kamat, former Agoda VP of Product, as Head of Product. Wad will be responsible for engineering scalable, compliant and fast Web3 services and solutions. He will […]
3 mn read A year ago, NFTs took the art market by storm with the major auction houses substantially boosting the phenomenon: first Christie’s, then Sotheby’s and Phillips. A number of art galleries were quickly seduced, some, like the Pace Gallery, developing their own platforms. Most of them, however, are still preferring to wait, even when their artists are already devising major digital projects, with some artists having independently pushed ahead with their own digital adventures.
6 mn read Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Bight, LLC, the bidding entity representing Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind (Atlantic Shores), a 50-50 joint venture between Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell) and EDF-RE Offshore Development, LLC (EDF), is the provisional winner of block OCS-0541 in the New York Bight offshore wind auction. This area, subject to a future investment decision, could support approximately 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of commercial wind generation, enough to power nearly 700,000 New York and New Jersey homes.
