On Wednesday morning, Finnish and Swedish ambassadors to NATO, Klaus Korhonen and Axel Wernhoff forwarded their countries’ request to join NATO to the secretary-general of the treaty organization, Jens Stoltenberg.
The Scandinavian countries Sweden and Finland are striving to join NATO. A majority of Parliament in Stockholm voted in favour of the historic step on Monday. Meanwhile, Turkey is threatening to block the entry of the two Nordic countries.
About 88 percent of organizations previously attacked by ransomware would choose to pay ransom again in the next attack. This is evident from a study by security specialist Kaspersky.
Tankers with oil from US strategic reserves are on their way to Europe, including the port of Rotterdam. The Bloomberg news agency reports this.
Dell, Netflix and Apple are being sued in Russia for no longer providing services in the country. In Dell’s case, payment was made for never delivered items.
The SEC fined Nvidia $5.5 million for failing to tell investors how much of their profits depended on crypto miners.
Aviation group IAG, the parent company of British Airways, has had to scale back its plans to increase capacity this year due to staff shortages at London’s Heathrow airport. This year, the company had hoped to fly at 85 percent of its pre-pandemic capacity.
Booking Holdings rose almost 8 percent on the stock exchanges in New York on Thursday. Investors were delighted with the results of the parent company of the Dutch Booking.com, which more than doubled its turnover last quarter.
Google has blocked 8 million ads related to the war in Ukraine this year. This was announced by Google on Wednesday at the same time as it released its annual figures on harmful ads.
Spotify gained more users in the first quarter, despite the outcry about comedian Joe Rogan’s podcasts earlier this year. The originally Swedish company now has 422 million monthly active users, an increase of 19 percent compared to a year earlier.
