Category: Business

Anbar, Iraq — August 2025U.S. oilfield services leader SLB (NYSE: SLB) has been awarded a significant six-well drilling contract in Iraq, marking a strategic move to enhance natural gas production at the Akkas gas field, located in the western Anbar governorate. 🔍 Project Overview 🏗️ Strategic Significance The Akkas field is one of Iraq’s largest […]

Beijing, China — August 2025China’s leading electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) (SHE: 300750), has announced a suspension of operations at its Yichun lithium mine, triggering a sharp rise in lithium carbonate prices. The move comes amid a nationwide crackdown on industrial overcapacity, particularly in the critical minerals sector. 🏗️ […]

In a promising sign that public pressure works, several crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs, also known as “fake clinics”) have quietly scrubbed misleading language about privacy protections from their websites.  Earlier this year, EFF sent complaints to attorneys general in eight states (FL, TX, AR, and MO, TN, OK, NE, and NC), asking them to investigate […]

HomeOffice of the SpokespersonPress Releases…Joint Statement on Protecting American Consumers and Shipping Industries by Defeating the International Maritime Organization’s “Net-Zero Framework” aka Global Carbon Tax The text of the following statement was released by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. […]

Instead of having seeds which sprout reliably, farmers contend with batches which may grow only 40 or 50 per cent of the time. This not only diminishes their yield and profit but also decreases their ability to sustain their livelihoods.   The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is working with the Ministry of Agriculture in […]

We’re wishing EFF a happy birthday on July 10! Since 1990, EFF’s lawyers, activists, analysts, and technologists have used everything in their toolkit to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. They’ve seen it all and in this special edition of our EFFecting Change livestream series, leading experts […]

The European Commission has approved Naspers’ €4.1 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway.com, but imposed conditions to prevent market concentration in the food delivery sector. ✅ Deal Approval with Conditions Brussels cleared the takeover by Naspers, a South African multinational, citing no significant impediment to competition from the transaction itself. However, regulators raised concerns over […]

Leading U.S. chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to remit 15% of their revenue from China operations to the U.S. government, under a landmark arrangement aimed at securing continued access to the Chinese market. 📄 Terms of the Agreement The deal, described as unprecedented, forms part of a broader effort to balance national security concerns […]

Keeping up on the latest digital rights news has never been easier. With a new look, EFF’s EFFector newsletter covers the latest details on our work defending your rights to privacy and free expression online. EFFector 37.7 covers some of the very sneaky tactics that Meta has been using to track you online, and how […]

“We stand at a pivotal moment, one that marks a profound shift from viewing these nations as isolated and constrained by geography to recognizing them as dynamic land-linked economies at the heart of Africa’s socio-economic resurgence,” said Samuel Doe, Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ethiopia. A new UNDP position paper […]