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Gannett has filed a civil lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet, claiming that they unlawfully hold monopolies in the advertising technology tools that publishers and advertisers use to buy and sell online ad space. The largest...

It has now been over two years since G7 leaders announced a groundbreaking agreement to divvy up taxation of multinational corporations’ profits. That breakthrough followed years of fraught negotiations under the aegis of the OECD/G20 Inclusive...

An American push to establish “green shipping corridors” is key to reducing carbon emissions from the shipping industry, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday while touring the port of Yokohama near Tokyo. Buttigieg was in Japan...

About a tenth of National Commercial Bank Jamaica’s automated banking and teller machines are out of commission. The bank has poured billions into its digitisation programme over the past eight years, to rebalance the demand for in-branch services...

Nasdaq is buying Adenza, a company that makes software used on Wall Street, for US$10.5 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition from owner Thoma Bravo, an investment company, includes US$5.75 billion in cash and 85.6 million shares of Nasdaq...

In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite – including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps – and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying...

The focus of today’s article is customer service. It is written against the background of the experiences of some of my colleagues with financial service providers mainly banks, insurers, and intermediaries; my interactions with some of those...

The United States Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyberextortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be...

QUESTION: I am starting a new business and need to ask your opinion on it: Which customer archetype is better for business, from a profit potential, B2B, B2C, or B2G? – Kem BUSINESSWISE: You have posed a good question because it is in the answer...

Consumer food industry veteran James Rawle has been appointed chairman for all three Lasco affiliated companies – Lasco Manufacturing Limited, Lasco Distributors Limited, and Lasco Financial Services Limited. Rawle previously held the post of...

To get to its goal of US$100 million in assets by 2025, real estate investor Kingston Properties Limited is looking towards various overseas markets for distressed properties it can snag at cheap prices. Its focus is on Europe, the United Kingdom,...