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China to invest nearly $900 billion in power grids: state media
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will invest close to $900 billion in the next five years to help further develop the country's power grids, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday. Investments ...
Oct 10, 2020
Daimler labor chief urges lawmakers to promote car charging
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European lawmakers should promote electric car charging infrastructure as aggressively as they seek to lower carbon dioxide emissions, Michael Brecht, works council chief at Germ...
Oct 10, 2020
Twilio to buy cloud customer data startup Segment for $3.2 billion: Forbes
(Reuters) - Cloud communications platform provider Twilio Inc plans to buy customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2 billion, Forbes reported on Friday. The deal, which had not been finali...
Oct 09, 2020
Britain, EU agree to pursue mini-deals if talks fail next week: The Times
(Reuters) - Britain and the European Union have agreed to pursue 'mini-deals' in areas of mutual interest, such as aviation and road transport, even if trade negotiations for a wider deal break down n...
Oct 09, 2020
U.S. judge rules Apple could bar Epic Games’s ‘Fortnite’ from App Store
By Kanishka Singh and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Friday ruled in an injunction request that Apple Inc could bar Epic Games's "Fortnite" game from its App Store but mus...
Oct 09, 2020
Argentina’s GDP to fall 11.8% in 2020 due to COVID-19, central bank poll says
By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's economy is set to contract by 11.8% in 2020, a slightly rosier outlook than a previous estimate of a 12.1% drop, according to a central bank su...
Oct 09, 2020
Aviation contractors axed jobs as U.S. delayed aid, House panel finds
By Tracy Rucinski CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. aviation contractors laid off thousands of workers due to delays in payroll aid from the U.S. Treasury that was meant to protect jobs, an investigation by a ...
Oct 09, 2020
Microsoft to let most employees work remotely for up to half their weekly working hours
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Friday it would allow most of its employees to clock in up to half their weekly working hours remotely, providing greater flexibility even after offices start reopen...
Oct 09, 2020
U.S. should try to delay IPO of China’s Ant Financial, Rubio says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Marco Rubio, who has successfully urged the Trump administration to pursue probes into Chinese companies, called on Friday for the U.S. government to consider options to...
Oct 09, 2020
Speculators cut short dollar bets to lowest since July -CFTC, Reuters
By Kate Duguid NEW YORK (Reuters) - Speculators reduced their net short dollar positions in the latest week to the lowest level since late July, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity...
Oct 09, 2020
