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Hypermarkets in Asia are losing their luster

Cavernous hypermarkets aren't as crowded as before. /CGTN Photo It's not always easy to transfer a successful business concept from one side of the world to the other, or to sustain that succe

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Hungary provides free IVF to increase birth rate

In December, Hungary's government bought six fertility clinics (Credit: AP/Darko Vojinovi) Hungary has started providing free fertility treatment at state-owned clinics in an attempt to curb p

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One dead, five wounded in shooting on bus in Southern California

One passenger was shot fatally and five others were wounded on a Greyhound bus in Southern California early Monday, authorities said.The bus was traveling from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay ar

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Dengue outbreak hits Latin America

Dengue fever is spreading across Latin America in what experts are calling one of the worst epidemics in centuries.Nearly three million cases ofthe mosquito-borne diseasewere rep

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Global Business Daily

"Brexit has changed the format of how people see the SNP, see independence, a lot of people who were never interested in independence suddenly are now massively interested."Those were the words of a

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Air Mauritius to boost capacity to Cape Town and Johannesburg

An Air Mauritius new Airbus A330-900neo aircraft seen on the final approach landing at London Heathrow International Airport LHR EGLL in England. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Ima

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Israeli PM Netanyahu arrives in Uganda for state visit

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are received by traditional dancers upon arriving in Entebbe on Monday 3 February 2020. /PHOTO Courtesy: Prime Minister of Israel – Twi

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Man admits hacking Nintendo and leaking details of unreleased products

Ryan Hernandez, from Palmdale in California, leaked information about the Nintendo Switch console.

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Facebook board adds Zuckerberg friend, Dropbox’s CEO

Shareholders have repeatedly tried to oust Facebook’s chairman Mark Zuckerberg. The board has repeatedly rejected that demand. Outside investors are unlikely to get much help with that push from

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Twitter suspends ‘large network’ of fake accounts used to match phone numbers to users

Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” as well as many others “located in a wide range of countries,” c

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Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate

Today after the bell, Alphabet reported its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results. The company’s revenue grew from $39.3 billion in 2018 to $46.1 billion in 2019. The firm’s net income also

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Jenfi wants to solve small business lending in Southeast Asia

Small business lending is a huge market that has attracted massive attention from VC investors in recent years. Startups like Kabbage have raised more than a billion dollars in venture capital and deb

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Daily Crunch: Hulu CEO steps down

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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Google Assistant now works with Tile to find your lost stuff

Google Assistant is today rolling out support for Tile’s Bluetooth tracker, designed to help you keep up with your often misplaced items — like your keys, purse, wallet, remote, and more.

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The state of the unions

Imagine that your boss calls you and your co-workers into a meeting and announces that you are all getting raises. But before any glasses are raised for a toast, you are told that you’re not getting a

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Construction startup Scaled Robotics raises a €2M seed round

Industrial robots are expensive. But, then, so are construction mistakes. Being off by an inch here or there adds up quickly, and too often crews need to correctly costly errors. There’s a reason cons

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Hulu restructures under Disney, CEO Randy Freer departs

Hulu CEO Randy Freer is stepping down from his role as part of a major restructuring of Disney’s direct-to-consumer business, the company announced on Friday. Disney had acquired control of Hul