Global stocks mostly fall ahead of big Trump tariff deadline
New York (AFP) - Global stocks mostly fell Thursday despite strong earnings from US tech giants Microsoft and Meta as ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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AI gives stocks a lift, dollar mixed tracking Fed, tariffs
London (AFP) - Investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence kept Wall Street buoyant Thursday as Microsoft surfed a tech wave to ...
Stock market attention shifts from trade deals to company results
London (AFP) - Stock markets were mixed on Tuesday as investors started turning their attention from trade deals to a ...
AI Ray-Ban Meta glasses help EssilorLuxottica boost sales
Paris (AFP) - EssilorLuxottica, the world's top maker of eyeglasses, said Monday a tripling of sales of Ray-Ban Meta AI ...
Humanoid robots embodiment of China’s AI ambitions
Shanghai (AFP) - Serving craft beer, playing mahjong, stacking shelves and boxing, the dozens of humanoid robots at Shanghai's World ...
India’s Infosys narrows revenue forecast as profits beat expectations
Bengaluru (India) (AFP) - Indian IT giant Infosys on Wednesday increased the lower end of its annual growth forecast for ...
UK court awards £700 mn to HP in late tycoon’s fraud case
London (AFP) - A UK court Tuesday awarded £700 million ($946 million) compensation to IT firm Hewlett Packard in a ...
Ivory Coast farmers hope tech tempts jaded youth back to fields
Abidjan (AFP) - Stopwatch in hand, dozens of Ivory Coast students raced against the clock to design robots for the ...
Waymo looks to test its self-driving cars in New York
New York (AFP) - Google-owned Waymo on Wednesday said it has applied for a permit to start testing its self-driving ...
Big tech on a quest for ideal AI device
New York (AFP) - ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has enlisted the legendary designer behind the iPhone to create an irresistible gadget for ...
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