Google appeals French 500 million eur copyright fine
PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google said on Wednesday it was appealing a “disproportionate” 500 million euro (..
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WH Smith warns on 2022 profit due to slow travel recovery
By Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) -WH Smith’s 2022 profit is likely to be at the lower end of market expectations, the British retai..
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GSK, SK Bioscience to test COVID-19 vaccine against AstraZeneca shot
(Reuters) – Britain’s GSK and South Korea’s SK Bioscience said on Tuesday the drugmakers have begun a late-stage tri..
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France’s Vivendi sells 2.9% of Universal to Pershing Square for $1.15 billion
PARIS (Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman’s Pershing Square fund has committed to acquire an additio..
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Ida loses punch, levees hold, but Louisiana expects more rain and flooding
By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Ida lost some of its punch over southwestern Mississippi on Monday after making ..
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Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana, knocking out power in New Orleans
By Devika Krishna Kumar and Jonathan Allen NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -Hurricane Ida plowed into Louisiana from the Gulf of Mexico as a fie..
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EIG Global Energy Partners submits offer for Petrobras pipelines in Brazil, source says
By Gram Slattery RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm EIG Global Energy Partners submitted a binding offer worth ..
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Bank of England removes paintings of governors linked to slave trade
By Huw Jones and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England said on Friday it has removed 10 oil paintings and busts of..
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Cricket-India lose Rahul as England continue victory march
LEEDS, England (Reuters) – England grabbed a massive first innings lead of 354 runs and then reduced India to 34-1 to stay on co..
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Beyond CryptoKitties: NFTs are poised to permanently transform the art world
By: Alan Vey CEO and Co-Founder – Aventus Non-Fungible Tokens (or NFTs) are revolutionising how we represent the ow..
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Digital sea change for shipping and global supply chains
By Mohan Naidu, FPT UK Managing Director The international shipping industry is responsible for the carriage of around 90%..
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Taking the block out of Blockchain: a clear path to supply chain transformation
By: Mark Crowne, general manager at Nexer Insight UK In the post-pandemic world, consumers are increasingly demanding integrity and au..
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Harvey Maria Wins Two Flooring Innovation Awards!
Harvey Maria is delighted to announce that their Northmore and Hurst Herringbone LVT collections have been announced as Winners in the..
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Toshiba in talks with four investment firms for strategic ideas -sources
By Makiko Yamazaki and Scott Murdoch TOKYO/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Toshiba Corp is in talks with at least four global private equity firm..
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J&J says booster dose increased antibodies in early-stage studies
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – A booster dose of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine sharply increased leve..
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S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean parliamentary committee voted early on Wednesday to recommend amending a law, a key step toward..
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Sydney hospitals under strain as coronavirus cases hit record
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Sydney’s COVID-19 cases rose to a new daily record on Wednesday, putting parts of the health system und..
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McDonald’s milkshakes off the British menu after supply chain issues
LONDON (Reuters) – McDonald’s said it had taken milkshakes and bottled drinks off the menu at all of its British restauran..
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Luxury to essential: Latam boosts internet access in pandemic
By Anastasia Moloney and Fabio Teixeira BOGOTA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -Huddled over a red tablet on loan from the..
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Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine boosters show signs of taming Delta
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Less than a month into a COVID-19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on ..
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New Aerospike Petabyte Scale Benchmark Runs Real-Time Operational Workloads on Just 20 AWS Nodes with Intel Processors
New NoSQL Industry Benchmark Shows Sub-Millisecond Performance at Petabyte Scale on a Fraction of the Servers of Traditional Databases..
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JG Pest Control becomes the first UK environmental company to accept cryptocurrency as payment
20 August 2021 JG Pest Control, one of the UK’s leading pest control companies, has become the first UK environmental company to accep..
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HELM BECOMES WORLD’S FIRST YACHTING HOLIDAYS SPECIALIST TO ACCEPT CRYPTO
Crypto currency payments now accepted via HELM’s Kraken Business wallet. UK yacht charter broker HELM has started taking crypto curre..
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Bitcoin price rises past $50,000 as rebound continues
LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin’s price surged past $50,000 on Monday for the first time since May, continuing its rebound from..
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Fed chief Powell’s record ‘mixed,’ think tank says
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – A think tank highly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s record on banking regulati..
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UK economic growth slowed again in August as post-lockdown shortages bite – PMI
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s post-lockdown economic bounce-back slowed sharply in August as companies struggled with unpre..
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Shares in UK chain Sainsbury’s jump 11% on report of buyout interest
(Reuters) – Shares in Sainsbury’s jumped 11% to a three-year high on Monday after a report over the weekend said private e..
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‘Paw Patrol’ unleashed: Behind ViacomCBS’s plan to take on Disney
By Helen Coster (Reuters) -When “Paw Patrol: The Movie” hits theaters and the Paramount+ streaming service on Friday, it will kick off..
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Wall Street bounces, oil slides as markets mull murky economic picture
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Stocks recovered ground on Friday amid concerns about global economic growth amid rising coron..
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Factbox-How Big Tech is faring against U.S. lawsuits and probes
(Reuters) – Big Tech platforms Facebook Inc and Google have been hit with a series of antitrust lawsuits by the U.S. federal gov..
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Musk says Tesla will launch prototype of humanoid robot next year
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said it will probably launch the prototype of a humanoid robot cal..
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COVID-fuelled semiconductor crunch chips away at carmakers
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – In grim warnings this week, major carmakers including Toyota and Volkswagen offered fresh evide..
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Stung by climate change: drought-weakened bee colonies shrink U.S. honey crop, threaten almonds
By Karl Plume GACKLE, North Dakota (Reuters) – There was barely a buzz in the air as John Miller pried the lid off of a crate, o..
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Musk’s ‘AI Day’ confronts tough questions about Tesla’s technology
By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – At Tesla’s “Autonomy Day” event in April 2019, Chief Executive Elon M..
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SALES OF CRYPTO-RELATED GOODS SOAR AS CURRENCY CONTINUES TO GROW IN POPULARITY
-Sales of crypto-related products on global marketplace Fruugo increased by over 1,800% in the last four years, whilst sales of produc..
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Global Crypto Exchanges Begin Phased Deployment of Veriscope: The Decentralized Solution to the FATF Travel Rule
Bridgetown, Barbados, Today, Shyft Core, in collaboration with Binance, Deribit, Bitfinex, BitMEX, Tether, Huobi and other collaborati..
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Australian jobless rate drops, but lockdowns muddy the data
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s unemployment rate dived unexpectedly in July to a 12-year low, but the drop w..
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