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AstraZeneca will buy Fusion Pharma for a price close to US$2.4 billion

AstraZeneca will buy Fusion Pharma for a price close to US$2.4 billion

AstraZeneca Plc has agreed to buy Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. for US$2.4 billion, at a time when European pharmaceutical companies continue their streak of agreements with promising biotechnology companies. The British drugmaker said it will pay $21 per share for Fusion, or $2 billion in cash upfront. plus another US$400 million depending on the milestones achieved. ...

Peru, Brazil and Colombia are the OECD countries with the highest rates for SMEs

Peru, Brazil and Colombia are the OECD countries with the highest rates for SMEs

Latin America places three countries among the top five of those that from 2022 to 2023 had the highest rates for SMEs among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, as revealed by the 'SME Financing' study. and entrepreneurs 2024'. The increase in interest rates by country was evaluated as a ...

Apple would be negotiating the use of Google's artificial intelligence in iPhone

Apple would be negotiating the use of Google's artificial intelligence in iPhone

Apple is in advanced negotiations with Google to integrate its Gemini generative artificial intelligence engine into iPhone phones, according to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources familiar with the conversations. Apple wants to license the technology Google to use it in some of the AI ​​features that will include their phones this year. The company led by ...

China and Australia face difficult diplomatic path after trade dispute

China and Australia face difficult diplomatic path after trade dispute

China's likely lifting of final major tariffs on Australian goods in coming weeks will end bitter three-year trade war. That alone is unlikely to usher in a new era in relations between the two countries. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's first trip to Australia in seven years to meet his counterpart Penny Wong in Canberra ...

Bank of Japan prepares to end negative interest rate policy

Bank of Japan prepares to end negative interest rate policy

The Bank of Japan is preparing to put an end on Tuesday to eight years of negative interest rates and other measures of its ultra-expansive policy, taking a historic turn away from the attempt to reactivate the growth of the economy with years of gigantic monetary stimuli. While the move would mark Japan's first interest ...

Nvidia backs little-known upstart in big Indian AI bet

Nvidia backs little-known upstart in big Indian AI bet

It's a muggy March afternoon in the suburbs of Mumbai and a group of men anxiously hover around the back door of a startup called Yotta Data Services. They walk, pause and worry. It's approaching midnight, 10 hours late, when a truck arrives with the precious cargo they've been waiting for: semiconductors from Nvidia Corp. ...

Trump predicts the end of democracy in the US, in case he loses the elections

Trump predicts the end of democracy in the US, in case he loses the elections

El Economista – Mexico City Donald Trump said on Saturday that If he doesn't win the November presidential election, it will mean the likely end of American democracy.. The Republican candidate made this claim in a speech to his supporters in Ohio, after repeating his baseless claim that the 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden ...

Yale made a change to its access policy.  We have to go back to being a '10' student

Yale made a change to its access policy. We have to go back to being a '10' student

Being an outstanding student is once again important to enter one of the most prestigious universities in the United States. Yale has made a change in its access policy and from now on it will once again take into account the candidates' grades, to the point that will make it mandatory to include in applications ...

US Senate will not fast-track TikTok divestment bill

US Senate will not fast-track TikTok divestment bill

Several US senators They want the Senate to take its time deciding whether to support a House bill. that would force the Chinese company ByteDance to divest from the social network TikTok within six months or face suspension. The House voted 352-65 on Wednesday, just eight days after the proposal was introduced. There is broad ...

Apple settles US$490 million over CEO's comments on sales in China

Apple settles US$490 million over CEO's comments on sales in China

The preliminary agreement was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, and requires a judge's approval. Apple reached a $490 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that the CEO, Tim Cook, had defrauded shareholders by hiding falling demand for iPhones in China. The preliminary agreement was filed Friday in U.S. District ...