International Business Machines (IBM) posted the strongest revenue growth in ten years in the fourth quarter. This was mainly due to the growth of the cloud activities to which the company is increasingly committed. Turnover rose 6.5 percent year on year to $16.7 billion. With that, the 110-year-old IBM […]
The US government has ordered the families of US diplomats in Kyiv to leave the country “due to the continued threat of a Russian military operation”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this on Sunday. Unfortunately, the European Union is not following suit. The US and other Western countries […]
Russia, China and Iran have begun combat exercises in the northern Indian Ocean. It is the third joint exercise since 2019 when training took place in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman. “The exercise aims to strengthen security in the region and enhance cooperation between the three […]
More than $15 million was stolen in a hack of some 400 accounts on Crypto.com. The CEO of the crypto platform admits this in an interview. Over the past weekend, about four hundred customer accounts of the Crypto.com platform were hacked, platform CEO Kris Marszalek said in an interview […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is coming under increasing pressure due to the whole series of staff parties that were held at his official residence when this was not allowed under the corona rules. Within his own Conservative Party, a group of MPs seem to have had enough. There […]
Russian soldiers have arrived in Belarus and are preparing joint exercises with the Belarusians. As a result, Moscow and Minsk have announced major military manoeuvres for February 10-20. The Belarusian Ministry of Defense reports that the troops will test their preparedness in the face of mounting tensions on the […]
The assize trial over the terror attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, will not resume until January 25, after one of the accused, Ali El Haddad Asufi, passed a positive corona test last weekend. This is reported by the French news agency AFP, based on sources close to the […]
Europol seized 1,534 weapons during an international operation targeting the illicit trade in converted gas and alarm pistols. Alarm pistols are popular with criminals because they can be easily converted to fire live ammunition. In July last year, crime reporter Peter R. de Vries was probably shot with a […]
US internet giant Google has proposed to the German competition watchdog to remove its news service ‘Google News Showcase’ from internet search results in Germany. The American tech company hopes that this will address the concerns of the competition authority that had launched an investigation. The German competition watchdog […]
Britain’s main natural gas supplier assumes that high natural gas prices are not a temporary phenomenon but could last up to two years. “The market suggests that high gas prices will continue for the next 18 to 24 months,” Chris O’Shea, chief executive of Centrica, owner of gas supplier […]
