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From hungry squirrels to cyberattacks, exchange outages roil markets
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was brought to a standstill by a hardware failure on Thursday, in the worst-ever outage for the world's third-largest equity ma...
Oct 01, 2020
Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers – U.S. Treasury
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facilitating ransomware payments to sanctioned hackers may be illegal, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday, signaling a crackdown on the fast-growing market for...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. charges BitMEX cryptocurrency officials with violating Bank Secrecy Act
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges accusing four founders and executives of the BitMEX cryptocurrency derivatives exchange of failing to take sufficient steps to ...
Oct 01, 2020
Exclusive: French state to raise 2.8 billion euros from 5G spectrum sale
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) - The French state will receive about 2.8 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in proceeds from the sale of the country's 5G spectrum sale following an auction that ended o...
Oct 01, 2020
Study sounds alarm on 5G fake news, EU needs to promote benefits
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders need to tackle urgently disinformation on 5G technology, which is central to the bloc's economic recovery from COVID-19 and its plans to cat...
Oct 01, 2020
Russian online retailer Ozon, online cinema ivi consider U.S. IPOs: sources
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's two online platforms, retailer Ozon and online cinema ivi, are both considering initial public offerings in the United States later this year, two bankers familiar with the...
Oct 01, 2020
Robot wars – Britain’s Ocado sued by AutoStore over patent infringement
By James Davey and Vanessa O'Connell LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - British online supermarket group Ocado was hit with a lawsuit by robotics company AutoStore on Thursday for allegedly infringing patent...
Oct 01, 2020
Facebook’s Workplace partners Deloitte to help companies work remotely
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook on Thursday announced a global alliance with Deloitte to help companies to use the social media group's Workplace tool to meet the challenges of remote working. The COVID-1...
Oct 01, 2020
Senate panel approves sending subpoenas to CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, Google
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday unanimously voted to approve a plan to subpoena chief executives of Twitter, Alphabet's Google and Facebook for a ...
Oct 01, 2020
SAP to acquire cloud-based marketing company Emarsys
BERLIN (Reuters) - Business software group SAP said on Thursday it would acquire Emarsys, a cloud-based marketing platform, in a deal that will round out companies' ability to tailor communication wit...
Oct 01, 2020
