Author Archives: Syndicated Content
India’s Bharti Airtel, Verizon tie up on video-conferencing tool
By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel Ltd is partnering with Verizon Communications Inc's BlueJeans to launch a business-focused video conferencing tool, the Indian wireless carrier...
Jul 14, 2020
UK to ban Huawei from 5G network
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government will ban Huawei from Britain's 5G network by ordering telecoms companies to remove its equipment by 2027, Media Secretary Oliver Dowden sai...
Jul 14, 2020
Death toll rises in border clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia
BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Seven Azeri soldiers and a civilian, and two Armenian servicemen were killed on Tuesday in the third day of border clashes between countries that fought a war in the 1990s ove...
Jul 14, 2020
India’s Flipkart raises $1.2 billion in Walmart-led funding
BENGALURU (Reuters) - U.S. retail giant Walmart will lead a $1.2 billion investment in its Indian e-commerce unit Flipkart, giving it a valuation of $24.9 billion, Flipkart said on Tuesday. The invest...
Jul 14, 2020
Shock and ale: electric fence keeps drinkers back from the bar in English pub
By Tom Nicholson St JUST, England (Reuters) - Man walks into a bar, and into an electric fence. It's not a joke, but rather the novel measure taken by one Cornish pub to enforce distance rules to stop...
Jul 14, 2020
China’s Wanda Film warn a loss
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's largest cinema chain operator Wanda Film said on Tuesday it expects to report a net loss of 1.5 to 1.6 billion yuan (214 to 228 million dollars) in the first half of this y...
Jul 14, 2020
Chinese university sacks professor who criticised President Xi, friends say
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing law professor who has been an outspoken critic of China's President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party was fired by his university after being released from a near...
Jul 14, 2020
Thailand’s AIS says Huawei among five companies tendering to build 5G core networks
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Advanced Info Service Pcl said on Tuesday Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] is among five companies tendering to build its 5G core networks. AIS, Thailand's largest mobile op...
Jul 14, 2020
Armory Demolition To Begin This Week
by Kevin Zimmermann SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - After over a half century as the gathering place for Sheboygan, and decades of proposals to preserve it, the Sheboygan Armory’s last days are up...
Jul 14, 2020
The Race Gap: How U.S. systemic racism plays out in Black lives
By Travis Hartman, Samuel Hart, Jonnelle Marte and Howard Schneider (Reuters) - Inequality between white and Black Americans persists in almost every aspect of society and the economy. Such disadvanta...
Jul 14, 2020
