A Google tool depended upon by many large websites to sell and display advertising was down for approximately three hours Thursday, denying major news publishers
Category: WORLD NEWS
Big Tech merger: FTC files a legal complaint against Meta’s acquisition of a VR company.
Beginning on Thursday in a courtroom in San Jose, California, federal officials will begin their effort to stop Facebook parent Meta’s acquisition of a virtual
Pentagon clouds: $9b enterprise-wide contract split among 4 leading cloud computing firms.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon gave contracts for cloud computing totaling $9 billion to Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure
Basel rules: Banks to hike capital by 6% to ensure compliance by end of the decade. – BoE
By the end of the decade, the Bank of England estimated that applying the final set of international bank capital regulations in Britain would result
FX swap debt of over $80 trillion threatens global financial system – BIS
Pension funds and other “non-bank” financial institutions now have more than $80 trillion in secret, off-balance sheet dollar debt in the form of FX swaps,
Cyber-attack: Amnesty International Canada hacked for 3 weeks by China.
Amnesty International’s Canadian affiliate reported on Monday that a cyberattack supported by China had targeted the organization. The human rights organization claimed to have discovered
Banks sharing pay details to limit competition – Swiss watchdog.
A preliminary investigation into whether dozens of banks inappropriately shared information regarding employee pay has been launched by the Swiss Competition Commission (Comco). “In the
The World moving towards the Cold War era – Germany’s Scholz
In an opinion piece for Foreign Affairs magazine that was posted online on Monday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz cautioned against starting a new Cold War
Russian oil: Europe to be cut off as $60/barrel price cap is rejected.
Russian authorities threatened to cease supplying the countries that supported the price cap for the country’s oil on Saturday after rejecting it. Australia, Britain, Canada,
FedEx driver kidnapped and murdered a 7-year-old Texas girl.
Two days after being reported missing, a 7-year-old Texas girl was found dead. A FedEx delivery driver has been detained in connection with her death,
