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Rivian, Redwood Materials among first recipients of Amazon’s $2 billion climate fund
(Reuters) - EV startup Rivian and Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel-led Redwood Materials have been named among the first recipients of investments from Amazon.com Inc's $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund, t...
Sep 17, 2020
Judge to announce decision on Uber’s London licence appeal on September 28
LONDON (Reuters) - A judge will announce his decision on September 28 as to whether to grant Uber an operating licence in London, where it was stripped of its right to take rides by the city's transpo...
Sep 17, 2020
Facebook chief scientist says ‘true AR glasses’ at least five years away
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is about five to 10 years away from being able to bring to market "true" augmented reality glasses, its chief scientist told Reuters, as the compan...
Sep 17, 2020
ByteDance rival Kuaishou aims to raise up to $5 billion in Hong Kong IPO: sources
By Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese online short video start-up Kuaishou aims to raise up to $5 billion in a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) as early as January, people with...
Sep 17, 2020
Facebook-backed Libra appoints former HSBC exec to head cryptocurrency
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - The Facebook-backed Libra project has appointed former HSBC European head James Emmett to lead Libra's operational unit tasked with developing and operatin...
Sep 17, 2020
Uber plans to sell part of stake in China’s Didi: Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc is planning to sell part of its $6.3 billion stake in Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing to raise cash, Bloomberg News reported https://bloom.bg/2RAViKg on Thursd...
Sep 17, 2020
Japan chipmaker Kioxia sets lower IPO price range than indicative price
TOKYO (Reuters) - Kioxia Holdings Corp, the world's second-largest memory chipmaker, on Thursday set a tentative price range for an IPO in Tokyo that put the market value lower than a Bain Capital-led...
Sep 17, 2020
China-backed telecom firm says won’t spy on Philippines
By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - A new Philippine telecoms firm with Chinese state investment on Thursday described as "truly misplaced" concerns that communications equipment ...
Sep 17, 2020
Kioxia says U.S. restrictions on Huawei could cause memory chip oversupply, price downturn
TOKYO (Reuters) - Kioxia Holdings Corp, the world's second-largest maker of flash memory chips, warned on Thursday that tighter U.S. restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] could cause mem...
Sep 17, 2020
Spain’s COVID tracing app tries to balance public health with privacy
By Isla Binnie MADRID (Reuters) - "What does RadarCOVID not do?" a promotional video for Spain's contact-tracing app asks. The answer: while navigating the country's decentralised healthcare system, i...
Sep 17, 2020
