Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sweden to lift COVID ban on visits to care homes
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will lift its ban on visits to care homes, the government said on Tuesday, as a result of a falling rate of new coronavirus infections and better routines to prevent new c...
Sep 15, 2020
White House’s Kushner says Oracle’s TikTok deal being reviewed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday said the White House is reviewing Oracle's bid to team up with China's ByteDance to keep operating TikTok in the United States and t...
Sep 15, 2020
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers to unveil $1.5 trillion COVID-19 aid bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 50 Democratic and Republican members of Congress are due to unveil a $1.5 trillion bipartisan coronavirus relief legislation on Tuesday, in an election year effort to...
Sep 15, 2020
ViacomCBS to rebrand CBS All Access streaming service as ‘Paramount+’
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - First came ESPN+. Then Apple TV+ and Disney+. Now there's another "plus" in the streaming video world. On Tuesday, ViacomCBS Inc said it would rebrand its expanded CBS All ...
Sep 15, 2020
Tokyo 2020 chief rebuffs higher reported Games costs
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto dismissed figures in an academic report published on Tuesday that showed the Tokyo Olympics were set to be the most expensive in history, ...
Sep 15, 2020
JPMorgan and BlackRock tap AI startup to automate opening custody accounts
By Anna Irrera LONDON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co and BlackRock Inc have teamed up with artificial intelligence (AI) technology startup Saphyre to automate the opening of custody accounts, the com...
Sep 15, 2020
Thai PM pledges to maintain peace during planned anti-government protest
By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prime minister pledged on Tuesday to ensure that a major protest this weekend against his government would be peaceful but said he was concerned ...
Sep 15, 2020
Ireland sets new rules for quarantine-free travel
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Tuesday set out new rules for its quarantine-free travel "green list", saying visitors from a list of countries with a COVID-19 infection rate of under 25 cases per 100,0...
Sep 15, 2020
Business review site Yelp launches ‘Latinx-owned’ tag
(Reuters) - Crowdsourced business review website Yelp on Tuesday launched a tag for businesses to mark themselves as "Latinx-owned" in a move designed to support Latino businesses hit hard by the pand...
Sep 15, 2020
UK says working hard to fix problems with COVID testing
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health minister said on Tuesday that the government was working around the clock to fix what he said were "operational challenges" in the novel coronavirus testing system ...
Sep 15, 2020
