Cathay Pacific, headquartered in Hong Kong, has unveiled its intention to release three-year benchmark-sized Hong Kong dollar senior unsecured fixed-rate notes. The airline has set the initial price guidance in the area of 4.1%. Details of the Bond Issuance…
Gold’s Gym, a long-standing name in the fitness industry, is expanding its horizons beyond its health centers. The company has entered into an exclusive multi-year agreement with IMG Licensing, marking a significant move towards the introduction of branded…
Surely there are iPhone users living outside of the EU who wish that their country had something like the Digital Market Act (DMA) that forces Apple to unbutton locked-down iPhone capabilities. For example, with iOS 17.4, iPhone users in the EU could install…
Samsung is gearing up to launch at least two mid-range handsets, the Galaxy A35 and A55. Information about both devices leaked in the least few months, but nothing official has been confirmed to this date. Despite the fact that all the sources that leaked…
Apple has released iOS 16.6 for the iPhone and iPadOS 16.6 for, well, the iPad. The updates will patch several vulnerabilities including one that impacts the Apple Neural Engine. The latter delivers on-device natural language processing and image analysis…
Pixel owners are another step closer to receiving Android 12 as said today that Google has started to push out Android 12 beta 2 to Pixel users. The update includes several of the new privacy features being added to the operating system with the new build…
Less than two weeks after the iPhone 11’s release date was seemingly revealed, an iOS 13 screenshot found within the latest beta version appears to confirm when Apple will be announcing its next-gen devices. The screenshot is named “HoldForRelease” and…
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