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Amazon revealed that it would be partnering with American hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion to promote its 10th annual Prime Day event on July 16-17.

Amazon announced that its 10th annual Prime Day sales event would be held this year on July 16-17, beginning at 00:01 Pacific Time (05:01 UTC).

Several basic frontline jobs in Hong Kong’s civil service would be replaced with technology as part of the city’s efforts to restructure its workforce and make 2,000 positions redundant by the end of 2025.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was due to plead guilty this week for violating the United States’ Espionage Act, a part of a deal that would end his imprisonment in the United Kingdom.

The European Commission released a preliminary ruling that found Apple violating the European Digital Markets Act.

Seven West Media, one of Australia’s top media networks, announced that it would be laying off 150 of its staff due to weak advertising and as a way of preparing for the end of its commercial deal with social media giant Meta.

A recent report by the Australian National Audit Office found that the country’s Treasury department apparently spent over $22,000 on food, alcohol, and venues for its budget night functions, which allegedly breached its own probity laws and internal policies.

CDK Global said that it would likely take several days to fix its system after it was hacked last week, urging affected dealerships to use alternative methods to become more productive.

Prosecutors recommended that the US Department of Justice file charges against Boeing after discovering it allegedly violated a settlement made in 2021 that shielded it from criminal charges.

Firefighters battle a huge fire at the Linwood Industrial Estate near Glasgow Airport in Scotland.

Bank Indonesia announced that its interest rate was maintained at 6.25% for a second month in a row since April despite the weakening of the rupiah.

Australian Mexican restaurant chain Guzman y Gomez went public on June 20, 2024 at the Australian Stock Exchange and traded over 30% north of its IPO of A$22 ($14.67) per share.

A power blackout affected the whole of Ecuador on June 19, 2024, which left the whole country and its 18 million people without power.

Car dealership software service CDK Global has been hacked this week, causing massive outages to thousands of dealerships across the United States.

OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever revealed his new startup called Safe Superintelligence.