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Exclusive: Salesforce rival Freshworks hires banks for IPO -sources
By Anirban Sen and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Freshworks Inc, a U.S. maker of business and customer engagement software that competes against Salesforce.com Inc, has hired investment banks to prepare for ...
Apr 27, 2021
OpenClassrooms start-up raises $80 million with Zuckerberg support
PARIS (Reuters) - Online education company OpenClassrooms said on Tuesday it has raised $80 million dollars in a fundraising partly backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative that Facebook co-founder Ma...
Apr 27, 2021
Explainer: An e-yuan, euro or dollar? Central banks get to grips with digital cash
By Tom Wilson and Colm Fulton LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The world's biggest central banks are revving up work on issuing digital cash, aiming to fend off emerging threats to traditional money and t...
Apr 27, 2021
FCC to votes to approve SpaceX satellite plan: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to approve the SpaceX plan to deploy Starlink satellites at a lower earth orbit, an FCC official confirmed to Reuters. The ...
Apr 27, 2021
Shoppers expected to spend $4.2 tln online in 2021, squeezing supply chains
By Richa Naidu CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global shoppers are expected to spend 20% more online in 2021 than they did last year, according to an Adobe report released on Tuesday, likely adding pressure to su...
Apr 27, 2021
Arm details new data center chips, says Oracle, Alibaba will use them
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Arm Ltd, the British chip technology firm being acquired by Nvidia Corp in a $40 billion deal, on Tuesday gave new details about its next generation of data center techno...
Apr 27, 2021
Andreessen Horowitz leads latest funding in fintech startup Current at $2.2 billion valuation
(Reuters) - Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz led a $220 million investment in Current at a valuation of $2.2 billion, the fintech startup said on Tuesday, which will be used to expand its prod...
Apr 27, 2021
Russian competition watchdog fines Apple $12 million for ‘abusing dominant position’
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said on Tuesday it had fined U.S. tech giant Apple more than $12 million for allegedly abusing its dominant position on the market. The F...
Apr 27, 2021
Germany to spend 90% of EU recovery money on green, digital goals
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will spend 90% of the 28 billion euros ($34 billion) it expects from the European Union's 750 billion euro recovery fund on climate protection and digitalization, by far exc...
Apr 27, 2021
Microvision shares set to open at 11-year peak on retail interest
(Reuters) - Shares of Microvision Inc jumped 10.2% before the bell on Tuesday, with the laser technology company's stock set to open at an 11-year peak as it remained on track to continue the streak o...
Apr 27, 2021
