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Spain’s competition watchdog cuts prices to access Telefonica’s infrastructure
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's competition watchdog CNMC on Friday reduced the prices legacy mobile and broadband operator Telefonica charges to let rivals access its network infrastructure. The CNMC orde...
Jun 18, 2021
Subaru to temporarily shut its plants in July due to chip shortage
TOKYO (Reuters) -Subaru Motor said on Friday it will cut production at Japan's Gunma plants in July due to a global shortage of semiconductors. "It is part of the production adjustment due to shortage...
Jun 18, 2021
Ferrari, Amazon’s AWS enter agreement on data
MILAN (Reuters) - Ferrari and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have entered an agreement to make Amazon's cloud computing unit the luxury carmaker's cloud storage, machine learning, and artificial intelligen...
Jun 18, 2021
Spain’s BBVA opens Bitcoin trading service to clients in Switzerland
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's BBVA on Friday said it had opened a bitcoin trading service to all private banking clients in Switzerland available as of June 21. The bank said its offer would include bitc...
Jun 18, 2021
Thailand, Malaysia central banks launch cross-border QR payment linkage
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The central banks of Thailand and Malaysia launched on Friday a cross-border QR (Quick Response) payment linkage to enable consumers and merchants in both countries to make and rec...
Jun 18, 2021
Facebook’s ‘Neighborhoods’ faces crowded niche market, profiling concerns
By Elizabeth Culliford and Moira Warburton (Reuters) - When Facebook began testing its new "Neighborhoods" feature in Canada last October amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the tech giant described it as a d...
Jun 18, 2021
Adevinta, eBay clear final hurdle in $13 billion advertising tie-up
OSLO (Reuters) -U.S. e-commerce group eBay and Norway's Adevinta have secured final regulatory approval for a tie-up of their global classified ads businesses, the Norwegian firm said on Friday. Under...
Jun 18, 2021
India’s Paytm seeks shareholder approval for $1.6 billion sale of new stock
By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian digital payments firm Paytm is seeking shareholder approval to sell up to 120 billion rupees ($1.62 billion) in new stock in what could be the South A...
Jun 18, 2021
Exclusive-Google searches for new measure of skin tones to curb bias in products
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology...
Jun 18, 2021
Under shareholder pressure, Toshiba board chairman vows to be ‘agent of positive change’
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp Board Chairman Osamu Nagayama on Friday pledged to be "an agent of positive change, not a protector of the status quo," in a letter to shareholders ahead of the conglome...
Jun 18, 2021
