The ruling by Britain’s Supreme Court this week that the drivers of the ride hailing company Uber should be treated as employees and were entitled to worker rights such as the minimum wage.   While this ruling is limited to a handful of the company’s driver sin London, analysts said that...

Companies in the packaged food industry are trying to gather more data about the purchasing habits of their customers and this is pushing companies like Kraft Heinz, General Mills and Kellogg to focus on selling of their products to consumers directly through their own online sale channels.  ...

The Australian government will continue to push for implementing laws that are designed for force Facebook Inc to pay news outlets for content, said the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, adding that several world leaders had expressed support to his government’s stand after the social media...

Gold fell to November's values of $1770 an ounce. The metal lost more than 4% in five days. The decline was due to expectations of global economic growth as well as a hike in US interest rates. Assets of exchange-traded funds, investing in gold, lost almost 40 tons in three weeks and returned to...

An easing of tension at their Himalayan borders between India and China has resulted in a thawing in the cold relation between the two neighbours which has potentially prompted the Indian government to seriously consider clearing of some new investment proposals from China as early as within the...

Most homes in the world are built from brick and mortar or wooden blocks – in essence they are built block by block.   However, a company in the United States has built a new demo house in Calverton, New York that was not constructed in the traditional manner but was made by scanning. The...

China has blocked the IPO of billionaire Jack Ma's Ant Group after an investigation revealed the likely beneficiaries of the company's flotation. Among them were so-called Chinese "princes", descendants of top Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders linked to former head of state Jiang Zemin and...

Adidas has announced that it is beginning the process of selling its Reebok brand. The company bought the brand in 2006, but has now decided that the manufacturers "can better realise their potential independently". It was previously reported that the owner of Timberland and North Face was...

The own apps of Google are now complaining of the long time that the search engine’s privacy battle with Apple Inc. is going on .     Apple has made it mandatory for any iOS app to include a privacy “nutrition label” since early December last year which requires all apps to list the...