Flutterwave, the African fintech firm, announced a $35M fundraising round, adding it had also signed partnerships with Visa and WorldPay, as the start-up sought expansion in the Francophone and northern Africa.
Apple Inc has cancelled its plans for allowing iPhone users to fully encrypt their devices' back-ups in the Apple iCloud service due to FBI complaints that such a move could harm investigations, Reuters reported.
On Tuesday, Walt Disney Co announced it would launch Disney+, the video streaming service, a week earlier than it was planned on March 24 in Western Europe's regions and the United Kingdom.
Uber Technologies has put a new feature on a test, which allows some of its Californian drivers who are ferrying passengers from the Sacramento, Santa Barbara and Palm Springs airports, to set their own fares, up to five times the ones set by Uber.
France proposed to suspend the digital services tax imposed on large internet firms due in April amid efforts to resolve the US dispute over the levy, France's Finance Ministry source reported on Tuesday.
The European competition authorities will pass their verdict on the LSE's $27B takeover of Refinitiv, the data and analytics firm, in a few months, the London Stock Exchange's board member stated on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the British Pound surged in valued, as better than expected employment data was published. The main movers were the UK Average Earnings.
Facebook is set to hire 1K people in London in the current year for such roles as safety and product development amid continuing growth of its largest engineering centre located outside the US after the UK leaves the EU bloc.
On Tuesday, the European shares plunged to their lowest in the last three weeks, due to mounting concerns about China's new coronavirus outbreak that sparked rush to the safe-haven bets.
Air France-KLM has proposed an investment in the ailing Malaysia Airlines, seeking for a 49% stake, while Japan Airlines is looking at the carrier's 25% stake, according to Reuters.
Uber has sold its Indian food-ordering business to the local rival Zomato, backed by Ant Financial, in exchange for the 9.99% stake in the Chinese start-up, according to Reuters.
On Monday, the results of a PwC CEO survey revealed that a majority of executives expect a slowing down of the global economy.
In response to Alphabet backing EU's proposed ban on facial-recognition technology, the President of Microsoft Brad Smith stated that there is an alternative to a ban.
The CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai on Monday agreed with EU officials that facial recognition should be regulated.
On Monday, Reuters revealed that European Union officials had proposed a ban of facial-recognition technology. The event created responses from Microsoft and Alphabet.
On Monday, the French anti-trust regulator has cleared a plan by France's billionaire Xavier Niel to acquire the Nice Matin newspaper, not disclosing the price of the potential deal.
The BBC Director General Tony Hall is set to step down in half-a-year, ahead of the negotiations with the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government about the publicly-funded broadcaster's financing model.
China's Tencent Holdings is seeking to accelerate its investment overseas, as well as in smart retail, by investing in over 800 companies, where 70 of the firms are listed, while more than 160 are valued at least at $1.0B.
On Monday, Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai has supported a proposal made by the EU to temporarily block the facial-recognition technology due to potential threat of the tool's misuse.
Samsung Display is planning to invest about $500M investment to construct a new display factory in India, due to its parent Samsung Electronics' intention to expand smartphone production in the South Asian country.
On Monday, the Belgian labour authority has launched a court case against Deliveroo, the British food delivery company, severing working conditions for its 3,5K riders in Brussels.
China's Sinopec, which is expected to become the following major buyer of the US liquefied natural gas, is set to review the potential $16B supply deal with Cheniere Energy amid a sharp plunge in LNG prices.
Daniel Kretinsky, the Czech businessman, and Patrik Tkac, his junior partner, announced on Monday they had boosted up their stake in the supermarket group Casino from 4.63% to 5.64%, supporting the struggling French retailer.
BAE Systems, the British defence company, is spending $2.2B to boost its US-based electronic systems operations, acquiring two businesses that had been offloaded due to the merger of the US competitors United Technologies and Raytheon.