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Before the end of October, Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, will be filing a prospectus for its intended initial public offering (IPO). According to the Wall Street Journal, the publication is expected on Oct. 25 in Arabic, with an English version to be published on Oct. 27. Owned by Saudi Arabia, this is in line with the government’s plan to publicly list the company, as it prepares to make a final decision on whether or not to continue with the offering.After the prospectus...

Robinhood, the financial services and stock-trading company based in California, has just announced its launch of a new feature called Cash Management. According to the announcement, the new feature which will come with a Mastercard debit card will allow its users to earn an annual percentage yield (APY) of 2.05% on all unused funds left in brokerage accounts. Users can now visit Robinhood and join a growing waitlist, to take advantage of Cash Management and reserve a debit card.In December...

After long waiting, Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally officially confirmed that its upcoming next-generation console will indeed be called PlayStation 5 and will be ‘launching in time for Holiday 2020’.We have already reported of Microsoft and Sony that decided to merge in order to fight competition from Amazon and Google in the provision of cloud gaming services that are expected to take the gaming world by storm in the near future.Playstation never had imaginative names. Since the...

The stocks of Microsoft Corp. rose 0.033% on Tuesday after Jefferies analyst Brent Thill said the next phrase:“It’s time for software investors to get picky.”Thill picked up the company’s coverage of the software sector at the beginning of the week with a swirl of rating and price target changes “to be more defensive in light of valuation and macroeconomic concerns.”In his research note, Thill says he remains positive on the software industry in general. But he highlights that there has to be...

PopSugar Inc an American media and technology company that is also the parent to the media property PopSugar, the shopping platform ShopStyle, and a monthly subscription business PopSugar Must Have was acquired by Group Nine, on Tuesday.The companies said the latest acquisition happened with a belief that they can spread their network and arrange a bigger scale in order to do better in selling online ads (Facebook and Google are rulers in this field so far).Sources familiar with the whole...

Anybody who knows anything about the U.S. Stock Market is already familiar with FAANG. An acronym for the five biggest, most popular and impressive tech stocks with significant performance, FAANG stocks have been trailblazers for more than a few years now.They’ve been so certain that people have largely formed a habit of buying into any of the five companies – Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and Google’s (GOOGL) parent company, Alphabet – as a completely sure way of...

General Electric (GE) has decided to freeze its pension plan, removing two of the key features that have come to be associated with retirement savings – secure and guaranteed – for tens of thousands of employees. GE isn’t the first company to pull the plug, but as one of the oldest traditional companies in corporate America, it sends a strong signal to employees that they can no longer bank on their employer for retirement benefits. Now, instead of shouldering the risk for employees, GE...

Insurance startup Next Insurance recently raised $250 Million in financing in its series C round of funding. The total amount was invested by European Reinsurance giant Munich Re. The Reinsurance group had in this round been the only participant in a move that saw it acquire around 27.5% in the single-niche insurance company. This now puts the Next Insurance’s valuation around the $1 Billion mark.The startup, which is known for offering insurance to small and medium scale digital enterprises...

A micro-mobility company based in Santa Monica, California, Bird, recently closed a $275 million round in order to help put itself in a leading position in the electric scooter market. However, smaller European rivals also managed to raise money to grow their own business. German startup dubbed Tier Mobility, that manages 20,000 scooters in 40 cities in 12 countries, managed to raise $60 million, funding that, by the words of Tier’s co-founder and CEO Lawrence Leuschner, are to be invested in...

Ritesh Agarwal, SoftBank Group Corp. founder, Oyo Hotels and Homes said his company is raising $1.5 billion from investors because the India accommodating company startup wants to evolve to foreign markets as are the U.S. and Europe.Agarwal said he will be spending more than $700 million to buy new shares in the company as part of a said before $2 billion plan in order to make his ownership stake worth more than three times. Also, other investors are SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Lightspeed Venture...