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South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment secures $966 million investment from sovereign wealth funds
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Kakao Corp said on Thursday unit Kakao Entertainment secured a 1.2 trillion won ($966.27 million) investment from leading sovereign wealth funds. Singapore's GIC and Sa...
Jan 11, 2023
U.S. NTSB chair raises safety concerns about heavy electric vehicles
(Reuters) - U.S. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy on Wednesday raised concerns about the increased risk of severe injury and death from heavier electric vehicles on U.S. roa...
Jan 11, 2023
Alphabet’s health science unit cuts over 200 jobs
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's health science unit, Verily Life Sciences, said on Wednesday it had laid off over 200 employees, or about 15% of its workforce, marking the first time in at least six years ...
Jan 11, 2023
Salvadoran lawmakers pass digital asset issuance law in bitcoin haven
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador, which became the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as a legal tender two years ago, approved on Wednesday a law that would regula...
Jan 11, 2023
Apple may add touch screens to Mac computers – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) -Apple Inc is actively working on adding touch screens to its Mac computers, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the project. The first touch-screen Mac could b...
Jan 11, 2023
Walt Disney names director Mark Parker as chairman
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co on Wednesday named independent director and Nike Inc Executive Chairman Mark Parker as the entertainment giant's chairman. (Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing b...
Jan 11, 2023
Twitter says no evidence that data being sold obtained from its systems
(Corrects to replace "by" with "from" in headline) (Reuters) -Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of the c...
Jan 11, 2023
Google parent files redacted motion to dismiss U.S. federal antitrust lawsuit
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet filed on Wednesday a redacted version of its motion to dismiss a U.S. government lawsuit against it, which argued that the company broke an...
Jan 11, 2023
Twitter considered selling user names to bring in revenue – NYT
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc has mulled selling user names to bring in new revenue, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The social media firm did not immediat...
Jan 11, 2023
Biden says Republicans, Democrats need to unite against Big Tech “abuses” – WSJ
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that Democrats and Republicans need to come together to pass strong bipartisan legislation in order to hold maj...
Jan 11, 2023
