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USTR’s Tai urges Canada to abandon digital tax, uphold home shopping commitments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Tuesday told her Canadian counterpart to drop a proposed digital services tax in light of an OECD agreement that commits 131 countries...
Jul 06, 2021
Universal movies to move to Peacock streaming service on quicker timeline
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures will send new movies exclusively to the company's Peacock streaming service no later than four months after they debut in the...
Jul 06, 2021
The fight by Microsoft and Amazon for the Pentagon’s cloud contract
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Defense Department dealt a blow to Microsoft Corp on Tuesday when the Pentagon announced it was scrapping the Trump-era award of a $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing proje...
Jul 06, 2021
Crypto exchange Binance temporarily suspends payments from EU’s SEPA network
(Reuters) -Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will temporarily suspend euro bank deposits from one of Europe's key payments networks, it said in an email sent to users on Tuesday. The email said that fro...
Jul 06, 2021
Volkswagen to sell stake in charging unit Electrify America -sources
By Arno Schuetze and Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen is to sell a stake in its electric vehicle charging unit Electrify America, two people familiar with the matter said, as the carm...
Jul 06, 2021
Pentagon to rebid JEDI cloud contract at center of Microsoft-Amazon dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department canceled its $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing project on Tuesday and will seeks bids on a new contract, saying in a statement that tech giants Micros...
Jul 06, 2021
Hong Kong government says privacy law amendments only concern ‘doxxing’ acts
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Hong Kong government said on Tuesday proposed amendments to the city's privacy law only concern "doxxing acts and law-enforcement powers of the Office of the Privacy Commissi...
Jul 06, 2021
Russia’s Yandex driverless robots to deliver food at U.S. colleges with GrubHub
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Driverless robots will soon deliver food to students on college campuses in the United States after Russian tech giant Yandex and online food-ordering company GrubHub agreed a multi...
Jul 06, 2021
Blackstone to buy ESG software provider Sphera in $1.4 billion deal
(Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc said on Tuesday it will buy Sphera, a environmental, social and governance (ESG) software, data and consulting services provider, from private equity firm Genstar Capi...
Jul 06, 2021
French court orders Twitter to provide details on what it is doing to tackle hate speech
PARIS (Reuters) - A French court has ordered Twitter to provide clear details on what it is doing to tackle hate speech, according to a court judgment obtained by Reuters, after several French lobby g...
Jul 06, 2021
