Finance and Economy
For the time being, Donald Trump doesn’t know what to do with TikTok’s counter proposal of making Oracle its “business partner” or “trusted tech partner”. As a trusted tech partner, Oracle will manage TikTok’s U.S. user data. As a business partner, Oracle will own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the […]
... written on Sep 19 2020The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday has released its final report after an 18-month investigation into Boeing 737 MAX deadly crashes – which killed 346 people in two accidents between 2018 and 2019. The 238-page report from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has basically confirmed what the public suspected – Boeing and […]
... written on Sep 17 2020As Donald Trump’s September 20 deadline approaches for China-based ByteDance to sell its hugely popular social video app TikTok to American companies, a decision has been made. ByteDance won’t be selling its TikTok U.S. assets to Microsoft after all. Instead, it has chosen Oracle as its “business partner” or “trusted tech partner”, just to satisfy […]
... written on Sep 15 2020In currency trading, probably the simplest task is to open orders in the market. As there are no regulations on how much trade an individual can place, people often get carried away. They start depositing and use risky techniques that fail. To recoup their investment, traders are found to multiple trades simultaneously. This is a […]
... written on Sep 12 2020When the U.S. Commerce Department added Huawei Technologies Co to its “entity list” in May 2019, the Chinese tech giant retaliated about 3 months later by revealing its own operating system, called HarmonyOS. The blacklist has affected Huawei’s overseas revenue, who was then the world’s No. 2 smartphone maker – ahead of Apple – but […]
... written on Sep 12 2020Starting a business is a big commitment but can also be a great accomplishment. While there is a lot of advice out there about how to grow your business, there are some aspects that you need to get right from the get-go. In this article, we are going to talk about six things you have […]
... written on Sep 09 2020According to Statista, the e-commerce market in Malaysia is worth a staggering US$4.455 billion in 2020. That’s US$4,455,000,000 or RM18,567,000,000 based on today’s currency exchange. Yesterday (Sept 8), Zahidi Zainul Abidin, the deputy Minister of Communications and Multimedia Ministry said the government plans to slap a new service tax for online shopping. The proposal […]
... written on Sep 09 2020The stock market’s performance would certainly determine who wins the White House, but only to a certain extent and under certain circumstances. For example, S&P 500 index has been a great tool when it accurately predicts the winner of the U.S. presidential election – with an accuracy of 87% – since 1928. And since 1984, […]
... written on Sep 08 2020The announcement that about 1.2 million innocent consumers would need to wait for a minimum 4 days before a water supply resume have left many frustrated – and tempers were flaring up on the social media. The water disruption, which began on Sept 3, affected 1,292 areas in Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Klang, Shah Alam, Kuala […]
... written on Sep 06 2020In every crisis lies an opportunity, says a famous quote by Albert Einstein. As millions of people continue to depend on video-conferencing thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, Zoom has added nearly 105,000 new customers in the second quarter. The number might look small, but the new subscriptions delivered a whopping 81% of its revenue growth. […]
... written on Sep 03 2020
