NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg becomes the new governor of the Norwegian central bank. Norway’s former prime minister is allowed to fill the post for which more than 20 candidates have applied. The government in Oslo announced the appointment on Friday. In December, Stoltenberg, 62, an economist, announced that the […]
The shortage of semiconductors and the pandemic disrupted chip production in 2021. However, the top 10 OEMs invested 25.2 percent more in chips. As a result, they accounted for 42.1 percent of the total market. This is according to preliminary figures from Gartner. “Semiconductor sellers shipped more chips in […]
Chip producer Melexis achieved a turnover of 643.8 million euros in 2021, good for an increase of 27 percent. Melexis benefited from the ever-increasing demand for chips in the automotive sector. Net profit rose 89 percent to EUR 131.1 million, the BEL20 company announced. “With a turnover of 166.2 […]
India wants to tax profits on digital assets at 30 percent. At the same time, the country wants to launch its own digital currency from April, at the start of the new fiscal year. On Tuesday, India’s central bank should do that, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. Cryptocurrencies are […]
On Monday morning, the Israeli army launched airstrikes on military positions and a Lebanese Hezbollah arms depot near the Syrian capital Damascus. This is reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an NGO that monitors the war in Syria from Great Britain. The attack in Qalamoun, northeast […]
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a bridge has collapsed under the pressure of snow piled up. That reports CNN. According to initial reports, there were no casualties. The police are calling on local residents to avoid the area because there would be a smell of gas. US President Joe Biden was […]
A stage of a Falcon-9 launch vehicle from SpaceX will collide with the Moon within weeks, spacedaily.com reported Wednesday. On February 11, 2015, Elon Musk Falcon launched the US space agency’s Deep Space Climate Observatory. This ended up at the Lagrange point 1, 1.5 million km from us. According […]
Austria will end the lockdown for people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 on Monday after more than two months. According to the government, this is possible now that the pressure on hospitals has eased. The corona measure was introduced in mid-November. Since then, unvaccinated people have only […]
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 […]
