Month: October 2024
Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block expands corporate card service to the UK
Key Points Block’s business-focused payments arm, Square, told CNBC it has rolled out it’s Square Card product in Britain. It marks the first time Block has expanded its business card offering outside North America, where it first launched in 2019. The firm will come up against local banking giants like Lloyds and NatWest, as well […]
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Chinese EV maker BYD’s quarterly sales overtook Tesla’s for the first time
New cars, among them new China-built electric vehicles of the company BYD, are seen parked in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, October 24, 2024. Yves Herman | Reuters Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD reported third-quarter revenue that topped that of behemoth rival Tesla for the first time. On Wednesday, BYD reported revenue for the three […]
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China tells carmakers to pause investment in EU countries backing EV tariffs, Reuters reports
Members of the press and the general public check out the Atto 3 electric SUV made by Chinese carmaker BYD, at the Fully Charged Live electric vehicle trade show in Farnborough, Britain, April 28, 2023. Nick Carey | Reuters China has told its automakers to halt big investment in European countries that support extra tariffs on […]
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North Korea launches a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to threaten U.S.
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on Oct. 31, 2024. Jung Yeon-je | AFP | Getty Images North Korea launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday in its first test in almost a year of a weapon […]
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Chinese smartphone company Honor gets new investors as it gears up for IPO
Chinese smartphone company Honor has released devices that fold up to be nearly as thin as an iPhone. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Honor on Thursday announced backing from new investors as the Huawei spinoff prepares for an initial public offering. The new backers are: China Telecom — one […]
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China’s factory activity expands for the first time since April, official survey shows
Robots manufacture auto parts at a factory in Ningde, China, on Oct. 17, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s official purchasing managers’ index for October came in at 50.1, in expansionary territory for the first time since April, according to National Bureau of Statistics data released Thursday. The data beat expectations […]
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Microsoft CFO says OpenAI investment will cut into profit this quarter
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Microsoft‘s massive investment in OpenAI is weighing on earnings. Following Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, CFO Amy Hood said she expects the company to […]
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Samsung Electronics’ chip profit shrinks 40% from the previous quarter
Customers shop at a Samsung mobile store inside a shopping mall in New Delhi. Reuters | Anindito Mukherjee Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported third-quarter sales and operating profit slightly above its own expectations, but its chip business posted a sharply lower profit from the previous quarter. The semiconductor unit reported third-quarter operating profit of 3.86 […]
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Asia markets mostly slip ahead of Bank of Japan decision, China factory activity figures
Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), speaks during a news conference at the central bank’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets slipped Thursday as investors look to the Bank of Japan’s rate decision, as well as key business activity figures from China. Economists polled by Reuters […]
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Even Mark Zuckerberg seems surprised by Meta’s pace of spending on AI
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta has been so quick to build out its massive data center and computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence projects that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is even a […]
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