TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese women’s soccer team won a spot at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday after beating their North Korean rivals in a match that also marked the first visit by one of its football teams to Japan in seven years. The 2-1 victory, following a first leg …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google was hit with a 2.1-billion-euro ($2.3 billion) lawsuit by 32 media groups including Axel Springer and Schibsted on Wednesday, alleging that they had suffered losses due to the company’s practices in digital advertising. The move by the group which include publishers in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, …

DATUK Foong Wei Kuong founded JF Technology Bhd from his kitchen at home in 1999 without an office, employees or customers. It had been a one-man show until he hired his first employee a year or two after setting up an office in 2003. “I was the salesperson, technical person, …

(Reuters) – Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan were not considered for annual contracts for the 2023-24 season, India’s cricket board (BCCI) said on Wednesday when they announced a list of 30 players who had been handed contracts. Iyer was on a Grade B contract last year while Kishan was handed …

KUALA LUMPUR: Southern Score Builders Bhd’s outstanding orderbook stands at just above RM530mil and is expected to underpin its earnings growth, according to executive director and chief executive officer Gan Yee Hin. “Looking forward to the rest of FY2024, we remain on course to deliver the cumulative profit guarantee of …

(Corrects to read November (not December), paragraph 2) LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin surged for a fifth day on Wednesday to near $60,000, buoyed by flows into new U.S. spot bitcoin exchange traded products that have driven it up nearly 40% in February, which would mark its largest monthly rally since …

KUALA LUMPUR: Consider locally made products as gifts as a part of efforts to strengthen the ringgit, a government MP proposed to the Dewan Rakyat. Petaling Jaya MP Lee Chean Chung proposed that 30% of government agencies’ souvenir acquisitions should include products produced by local artists instead of the gifting …

KUALA LUMPUR: Capital A Bhd has finalised an agreement with Aetherium Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), to list Capital A International (CAPI) in the United States (US) public markets. In a statement today, the company said under the terms of the proposed transaction, CAPI will combine with …

TOKYO, Feb 28 — Japan punched their ticket to the Paris Olympics women’s football competition with a hard-fought 2-1 win over North Korea in today’s qualifying second leg in a chilly Tokyo. The two sides drew 0-0 in Saturday’s first leg on neutral ground in Saudi Arabia, setting up a …

LONDON (Reuters) – France had no prior knowledge of Microsoft’s partnership with tech startup Mistral AI, a finance ministry official told Reuters, denying suggestions that French lobbying for looser European AI rules had been on behalf of the U.S. tech giant. Earlier this week, Microsoft said it had made a …