EU draft rules aimed at staving off spats over patents essential to key technologies for telecoms equipment and connected cars appear to put the onus and cost on patent owners, which could undermine Europe’s leadership in such areas, Nokia said.

Fiji is seeing a rise in lending to the private sector by six percent and non-performing loans are declining.

Five Alphabet subsidiaries, two Meta Platforms units, two Microsoft businesses, Twitter and Alibaba’s (9988. HK) AliExpress are among 19 companies subject to landmark EU online content rules, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Tuesday.

The Calmer Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, South Pacific Elixirs Pte Limited is capitalizing on the global demand for Fijian kava.

Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said on Tuesday it would buy back $70 billion in stock and posted first-quarter profit and revenue above estimates as demand rose for cloud services and ad sales held up better than expected.

The Fiji Revenue and Customs Service has begun its recruitment of the first batch of approximately 100 additional staff.

Amalgamated Telecom Holdings Limited has announced the appointment of two new board members.

The Pacific Recycling Foundation says a huge focus should be placed on the value-addition aspects of plastic waste.

As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection of the company’s computing capacity, focused on its ability to do cutting-edge artificial intelligence work, according to a company memo dated Sept. 20 reviewed by Reuters.

Sugar Minister Charan Jeath Singh says he doesn’t dispute the findings of the World Bank’s Fiji Public Expenditure Report 2023, which has not presented a favourable picture of the industry.

The Fiji Trades Union Congress President believes Fiji is behind when it comes to data recording.

Cabinet has approved new guidelines and procedures for capital projects under the Public Sector Investment Program (PSIP).