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EU adopts a new package of sanctions targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure
Along with a full transaction ban on two major Russian oil...
Apple loses landmark UK lawsuit over app store commissions
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled against Apple after a...
Google settles $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit
The plaintiffs alleged that Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit track their activity even when they set Google’s Chrome browser to “Incognito” mode and other browsers to “private” browsing mode Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit...
Jan 1 renewals: Orderly reinsurance market with increasing capital, says Guy Carpenter
Global property catastrophe reinsurance risk-adjusted rate changes averaged from near-flat to single-digits up for non-loss impacted and 10%-30% up for loss-impacted programs, with a wide range of outcomes around these averages Guy Carpenter and AM Best’s 2023...
World population to top 8 billion by January 1,adds 75 million this year
The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just under 1 per cent. At the start of 2024, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, according to the Census Bureau figures Washington: The world population grew by 75 million people over the past...
Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026:Minister
Critics of the technology, which has been trialed in the United States, say that the vehicles can cause crashes, and in California, regulators ordered General Motors’ driverless car unit Cruise to remove its vehicles from state roads after an accident in October...
Tokyo court only holds utility responsible to compensate Fukushima evacuees and reduces damages
The decision is among the four rulings that apparently came in line with the June 2022 Supreme Court decision that said the government wasn't liable for the disaster and that the disaster from a tsunami that high wasn't foreseeable or preventable A Tokyo court has...
China metals giant faces protest in Indonesia after fatal blast
The deadly blast at a furnace run by PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel — which is controlled by the Chinese group — has triggered a police investigation and a halt to the firm’s operations. Tsingshan is the world’s biggest nickel producer and one of Indonesia’s...
Japan asks four non-life insurers to stop anti-competitive business practices
The order was issued to Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, Sompo Japan Insurance, Tokio Marine & Nichido and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance.The four had been asked to report to the regulator on whether they engaged in prior consultations with each other when preparing...
New York Times sues Microsoft, Open AI over copyright infringement
OpenAI has faced criticism for scraping text widely from the web to train its popular chatbot since it debuted a year ago, and this is the first lawsuit by a major media organization challenging the practice. The startup has sought licensing deals with publishers,...
No one wants used EVs, making new ones a tougher sell too
The problems are expected to intensify in 2024, when many of the 1.2 million EVs sold in Europe in 2021 will come off their three-year leasing contracts and enter the second-hand market. How companies tackle this problem will be key for their bottom lines, consumer...
Hapag-Lloyd to decide on Wednesday about Red Sea routes
The world's top shipping firms, including Maersk and Hapag Lloyds, stopped transiting the Red Sea after Yemen's Houthi militant group starting targeting vessels earlier in December, disrupting global trade through the Suez Canal Germany's Hapag-Lloyd will decide on...