PayPal Holdings joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other virtual coins using the US digital payments company's online wallets.

The Chinese foreign ministry warned Sweden that it should revoke its ban on Huawei Technologies to avoid hurting prospects for Swedish companies.

Pick n Pay plans to launch Pick n Pay Mobile as well as Boxercom, under its Boxer chain, the retail group said on Tuesday during its interim results presentation for the six months ended 30 August 30.

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Netflix added 2.2 million new subscribers in the three months to September 30th – significantly lower than the 3.4 million predicted by analysts. Revenue growth also fell short of expectations as a result, but net profits still rose to $790 million (€667m) from $665.2 million  in the same period last year. Netflix had already warned […]

Sky has revealed plans to launch retail shops across the UK – bringing its pay-TV, mobile and broadband products to UK high streets for the first time. The first few shops are to set to launch in 2020, with the very first opening in Liverpool on October 26th. Sky has plans to open further shops […]

Research from Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker shows that through Q3 2020, the number of OTT video services in the US has more than doubled since 2014, currently reaching nearly 300 different services. The rate of closure has also declined, from a peak in 2018 when 19 services left the market, to only six […]

A new heliostat alignment technology developed in Germany highlights the widening range of cost-saving products that will soon be available to commercial CSP tower plants. A number of research teams are developing advanced heliostat calibration technology. Heliostats typically represent around a third of CSP plant costs and the misalignment of mirrors can severely dent output. […]

China's Delingha CSP hits 89% fulfilment in first year Supcon Solar achieved a fulfilment rate of 88.6% at its 50 MW Delingha CSP tower plant in Qinghai Province in the first full year of operation, industry association China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA), reported September 29. This is higher than the CSP fulfilment rates of 70 […]

In July, Vast Solar announced it was developing a 50 MW hybrid CSP-PV-gas plant in the mining town of Mount Isa in Queensland. The town hosts Glencore's giant Mount Isa Mines facility where it operates four copper and zinc mines. The A$600 million ($423.7 million) North Western Queensland Hybrid Power Project (NWQHPP) would be Vast […]

Abengoa completes first parabolic trough array in Dubai Spain's Abengoa has completed construction of the first of three 200 MW parabolic trough solar fields at the 950 MW Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai, the company announced September 24. Developed by Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power, the $4.4 billion Noor Energy 1 project will be […]

As EIG Atacama Management prepares to bring online Chile's first CSP plant, a new CSP rival is looking to enter the market. South Korean group Andes Green Energy aims to build its first large-scale CSP plant in Chile and will bid two hybrid CSP-PV projects in Chile's power generation auction in December. Chile’s national energy […]