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Merchant-led digital payments provider Mswipe Technologies on Monday said that it has been granted payment aggregator (PA) licence by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).This comes after the company received an in-principle nod from the central bank to operate as a PA in August 2022.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD…

A court in China has granted copyright protection to artists of an AI-generated image in an effort to inspire individuals to engage in creative endeavours using new tools, and to develop new tools A groundbreaking decision…

Jan. 10, 2024 11:00 pm ETTOKYO—China’s near-monopoly on the solar-energy market has prompted the U.S. and allies to step up the search for workarounds. Engineers believe they have found one in a type of solar cell that looks and feels like camera film.Japan is pushing the technology with subsidies and other support, a sign of how renewable energy, alongside other high-tech fields such as semiconductors, has become a geopolitical football.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted a payment aggregator (PA) licence to Tata Payments, Tata group’s digital payments app. This will help the firm facilitate ecommerce transactions through its platform. Tata Payments is held through Tata Digital, the group's subsidiary entity, which houses its digital businesses.Tata Pay joins the likes of Razorpay, Cashfree, Google Pay, among others to secure the much-awaited payments licence.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) said it granted three years of tax exemption to 34 companies in 2023. The Head of Incentives Administration of the NIPC, Lovina Kayode, told journalists in Abuja that the exemption was to promote the company’s investment drive towards developing the nation’s economy. “This tax exemption known as Pioneer Status Incentives (PSI) is executed under the Investors Relations Department of the NIPC and allows a company three years of not paying Corporate Income Tax,”…

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 12:13 am ETHAIPHONG, Vietnam—When electric-car startup VinFast Auto was looking to build a factory in the U.S., one state caught its attention in particular: North Carolina. For years, officials there had been trying to get an automobile manufacturer to set up shop in rural Chatham County. More than a billion dollars of incentives got them the Vietnamese upstart with huge ambitions but a limited record.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8…

The government on Saturday approved the proposals of Dell, HP India, Flextronics India, VVDN Technologies, Netweb Technologies, Lenovo, and 21 others for manufacturing of IT hardware under the second phase of the production linked incentive scheme. These 27 companies have in total submitted proposals for investment of Rs 3000 crore over the next five years, with an incremental production value expected to be around Rs 3.5 lakh crore, Union electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. Elevate Your…

users.Also: The best early Black Friday Apple deals 2023Emergency SOS debuted alongside the release of the iPhone 14. The feature allows users to contact emergency services outside of cellular or Wi-Fi coverage. If users were in danger, they could use their iPhone 14 to send messages to emergency services via satellites in Earth's orbit.When Apple released the service, the company stated that all iPhone 14 users would have two free years of Emergency SOS. Until today, iPhone 14 users would have to pay for the service…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAn actor with dwarfism has criticised the new Wonka movie for its casting of Hugh Grant as an Oompa-Loompa.Recent teasers of the forthcoming musical prequel to the beloved Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have depicted Grant, 62, as one of the tiny, green-haired orange people who work at Willa Wonka’s (Timothée Chalamet) chocolate factory.While several Twitter users…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAn actor with dwarfism has criticised the new Wonka movie for its casting of Hugh Grant as an Oompa-Loompa.Recent teasers of the forthcoming musical prequel to the beloved Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have depicted Grant, 62, as one of the tiny, green-haired orange people who work at Willa Wonka’s (Timothée Chalamet) chocolate factory.While several Twitter users…