Category: Business

Before January 27 2025, it’s fair to say that Chinese tech company DeepSeek was flying under the radar. And then it came dramatically into view. Suddenly, everyone was talking about it – not least the shareholders and executives at US tech firms like Nvidia, Microsoft and Google, which all saw their company values tumble thanks […]

If there is one axiom that we should want to be true about the internet, it should be: the internet never forgets. One of the advantages of our advancing technology is that information can be stored and shared more easily than ever before. And, even more crucially, it can be stored in multiple places.   Those […]

A federal grand jury in Houston returned an indictment today charging a Texas man with not paying to the IRS taxes that his company withheld from employees’ paychecks.   According to the indictment, Joseth Limon, of Harris County, allegedly owned Platinum Employment Group Inc., a company that supplied laborers to businesses in the Houston area. The […]

In perhaps one of the greatest brand comeback stories in automotive since the Fiat 500 in 2007, British car company Austin announced the return of the Austin Arrow. Its name is an unashamed reference to one of the most memorable Austin 7 models – first introduced in the 1920s the Arrow was the original “everyman […]

If you’ve got lawyers and a copyright, the law gives you tremendous power to silence speech you don’t like. Copyright’s statutory damages can be as high as $150,000 per work infringed, even if no actual harm is done. This makes it far too dangerous to rely on the limitations and exceptions to fair use, as […]

The world’s major shipping companies say they won’t be sending vessels back to the Red Sea any time soon despite a pledge by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen not to attack them as long as the ceasefire in Gaza holds. French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM said in a statement on January 25 that […]

Intel’s Q4 2024 Financial Results Show Mixed Performance Amid Strategic Shifts Intel’s financial performance for the fourth quarter and full-year 2024 reflects a period of mixed results, prompting cautious optimism among analysts. Despite a year-over-year decline in revenue and earnings, Intel’s focus on cost reduction and strategic efforts to streamline its product portfolio are seen […]

Hewlett Packard’s (HP) ambitious $14 billion (A$22.5 billion) deal to acquire networking giant Juniper has hit a major roadblock, as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) moved to block the merger on the grounds of anti-competitive risks. The DOJ’s concerns center on the potential creation of a duopoly in the U.S. enterprise-grade wireless networking market, […]

As the United States accelerates its push to secure critical minerals and reduce dependency on China, looming tariffs on Canadian minerals threaten to derail these efforts. Canada is the largest source of mineral imports to the U.S., providing essential materials such as uranium, aluminum, nickel, copper, and steel, all of which are critical for national […]

In the first weeks of the Trump Administration, we have witnessed a spate of sweeping, confusing, and likely unconstitutional executive orders, including some that have already had devastating human consequences. EFF is tracking many of them, as well as other developments that impact digital rights.  Right now, we want to draw attention to one of […]