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U.S. group Vantage Data Centres expands to Africa with a $1 billion campus
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Vantage Data Centres is investing more than 15 billion rand ($1 billion) in its first African campus in Johannesburg, the U.S.-based company said on Wednesday. The expansion u...
Oct 13, 2021
Exclusive-Facebook to change rules on attacking public figures on its platforms
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these group...
Oct 13, 2021
Ex-Intel executives’ startup aims to tackle spiraling costs of AI
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - After Intel Corp bought Naveen Rao and Hanlin Tang's startup in 2016, their job was to help the chip giant make money off artificial intelligence, which requires vast com...
Oct 13, 2021
Cryptocurrency rules a ‘matter of urgency’, Bank of England’s Cunliffe says
LONDON (Reuters) -Regulators need to work quickly to put in place a set of rules for cryptocurrencies, given the sector's rapid growth and the time it takes to agree on new standards, Bank of England ...
Oct 13, 2021
SeatGeek to go public via $1.35 billion deal with Billy Beane-backed SPAC
(Reuters) - SeatGeek on Wednesday agreed to go public in a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, backed by baseball executive Billy Beane of "Moneyball" fame, giving the online ticketing ...
Oct 13, 2021
GM extending Bolt production halt for two additional weeks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors said Wednesday it will extend a production halt of its electric vehicle Chevrolet Bolt for two additional weeks as it works accelerate production of new battery m...
Oct 13, 2021
SoftBank invests $400 million in activewear maker Vuori
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's venture capital fund has invested $400 million in Vuori Inc, the California-based maker of leggings and sports bras said on Wednesday, valuing it at $4 billion. Vuori...
Oct 13, 2021
Honda to launch new EV brand in China next year
BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's Honda Motor will launch a new electric vehicle brand in China next year, it said on Wednesday, and will only launch battery electric, hydrogen fuel-cell or petrol-electric ...
Oct 13, 2021
Irish regulator proposes 36 million euro Facebook privacy fine -document
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has proposed fining Facebook up to 36 million euros in one of more than a dozen probes it has opened into the social media giant, accordin...
Oct 13, 2021
U.S. becomes largest bitcoin mining centre following China ban
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The United States has overtaken China to account for the largest share of the world's bitcoin mining, data published on Wednesday by the UK's Cambridge Centre for Alternative Fin...
Oct 13, 2021
