Company in Canada

  • Equifax says hack potentially exposed details of 143 million consumers

    CANADA, 2017/09/08 Equifax Inc (EFX.N), a provider of consumer credit scores, said personal details of as a lot of as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in what could be one of the major data breaches in the United States. The company’s shares were down 8.7 % at $134.16 in next-market trading on Thursday. The details accessed included names, social security numbers, and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers, Equifax said.

  • WestJet To Buy Up To 20 Dreamliners For Long Routes From Canada

    CANADA, 2017/05/03 WestJet AirLine Ltd. (WJA.TO) said it has signed a definitive purchase agreement with Boeing Co. (BA) for up to 20 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. The purchase of the fuel-efficient aircraft will enable the Canadian airline to expand its international presence. The agreement includes commitments for 10 Boeing 787-9 aircraft to be delivered between the initial quarter of 2019 and December 2021. The airline as well has options to buy an additional 10 aircraft to be delivered between 2020 and 2024. Further, WestJet said it has selected General Electric's GEnx-1B engine for the 787.

  • British Airways to introduce 787 Dreamliner to Montreal

    CANADA, 2014/10/17 British Airways today announced that from March 29, 2015, Montreal will be served by the airline’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet, marking the initial scheduled Dreamliner service between Montreal and London. British Airways operates a daily service between the two cities and provides connections to additional than 130 cities beyond London. The initial Dreamliner received by British Airways made its inaugural flight to Toronto one year ago and last month Calgary became the second Canadian city to receive the majority modern aircraft in the airline’s new fleet.

  • Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry

    CANADA, 2013/11/13  A Qatari sovereign wealth fund was part a small group of investors who recently contributed $1 billion to Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry, US securities filings showed Friday. Qatar Holding LLC joined the group led by BlackBerry's major shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings Inc. in making the cash infusion next the company abandoned hopes of finding a buyer before this month. Fairfax had offered to buy the rest of BlackBerry and take it private but backed off at the last minute, opting instead for new management and cash to give it breathing room to restructure.

  • Royal Bank of Canada raid incident in Uruguay continues to be controversial

    CANADA, 2013/08/27 Less than a week ago, Vice-president Danilo Astori expressed concern with the fact that the Royal Bank of Canada, following a raid to its offices and the seizure of all computers, clients documents and even staff cellular phones, has decided to abandon Uruguay. “It’s not a good thing for Uruguay that a bank of such relevance should abandon the country, and things (the raid) could have been done in a additional careful and procedural way”, said Astori, an economist by training and who in the previous government was Finance minister.

  • U.S. tech giant Apple is set to open an executive office in Istanbul,

    CANADA, 2013/08/02  U.S. tech giant Apple is set to open an executive office in Istanbul, marking the initial of its expected investments in Turkey. Apple has rented an office in the business towers of Buyaka on the Asian side of Istanbul, an executive of Buyaka, a real estate and management company, confirmed in a telephone interview with the Hurriyet daily.
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