Japan’s Defence Minister Tomomi Inada has stepped down from office on Friday taking responsibility for a data concealment scandal over the country’s Self Defence Forces (SDF) mission in South Sudan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has accepted her resignation and will put Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in charge of this post until August 3, when the […]
Twitter has added zero users since first quarter, posting $574 million in revenue in the second quarter this year which is a decrease of five per cent YoY (year-on-year). Twitter now has 328 million monthly active users (MAUs) — the same number it reported in the first quarter of 2017. On the contrary, Facebook has […]
US Senate Republicans have unveiled the text of their latest alternative healthcare bill intended to repeal Obamacare, before starting a debate and voting that may extend into Friday. The legislation, dubbed “skinny bill” because only amendments in the few areas where there is consensus will be put to vote, was presented on Thursday night by […]
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a second quarter net profit of 11 trillion won ($9 billion), up 89 per cent year-on-year, the company said in a statement here. Samsung’s operating profit reached a record level of 14.1 trillion won, up 72.7 per cent. Its turnover also hit a record high, achieving […]
Clocking over two billion monthly active users (MAUs), Facebook has posted a net income of $3.89 billion in second quarter of 2017 — up 71 per cent from the same quarter last year. Riding on increased mobile video ad sales, Facebook stocks hit record high as total revenue was up 44.8 per cent to $9.32 […]
A campaign for California state’s secession from the US has got the approval to start collecting signatures for its ballot initiative, officials confirmed. The state attorney general issued an official ballot measure title and summary on Tuesday, permitting the campaign to collect signatures. The document was released not on the state attorney general office’s official […]
Australian Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s financial chief, appeared in person for a brief hearing at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. Pell will plead not guilty to all accusations of sexual assault against him, his lawyer has told the court, BBC reported. The 76-year-old Vatican treasurer was accused of historical assaults involving “multiple complainants”, […]
US President Donald Trump said he was “disappointed” with Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his recusal in FBI inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election and called the healthcare procedural vote a ‘big step’. “I am disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself,” Trump said during a joint news […]
The Arab League (AL) warned against “the increasing waves of migration to the Arab region”, an official said. “The Arab countries hosted in 2016 more than 26 million Arab migrants compared to 26 million in 2015, without counting those passing through the region for short time until reaching Europe,” said AL Assistant General Secretary of […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook has promised to build three new manufacturing plants in the US, President Donald Trump has said. Trump said this in an interview to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The US President said he had a phone conversation with Cook. “He’s promised me three big plants — big, big, big,” Trump […]