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Sweden to bring in banks in next stage of e-krona project
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's central bank will bring in banks in the coming year to test how its proposed digital currency - the e-krona - could handle commercial and retail payments in the real wor...
Apr 06, 2021
Former Credit Suisse exec backed SPAC to take robotics firm Sarcos public
(Reuters) - Sarcos Robotics Inc said on Tuesday it will go public through a merger with a blank-check firm backed by former Credit Suisse USA chief Brian Finn, in a deal valuing the combined company a...
Apr 06, 2021
Bezos, Musk top Forbes’ record-setting billionaire list
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Forbes' annual world's billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year, th...
Apr 06, 2021
Russian court fines TikTok over failure to delete content: reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court has fined social media app TikTok 2.6 million roubles ($34,000) over failure to delete content that the court said was related unsanctioned rallies, Russian news agen...
Apr 06, 2021
India court dismisses ByteDance’s plea to unblock bank accounts
By Abhirup Roy MUMBAI (Reuters) - An Indian court on Tuesday dealt a blow to China's ByteDance by dismissing its plea to unblock its bank accounts which have been frozen by federal authorities investi...
Apr 06, 2021
Taiwan’s Acer sees global chip shortage gradually easing
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A global shortage of chips for mid-end consumer products is starting to ease and will be much better come the second half of the year, a senior executive at Taiwan's Acer Inc, the w...
Apr 06, 2021
Japan’s Renesas to shift production to Ehime from fire-hit chip plant: NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp is set to shift some production to a factory in the southwestern prefecture of Ehime after a fire damaged a factory in northeast Japan, pu...
Apr 06, 2021
Payments giant Stripe expands to Middle East with Dubai office
DUBAI (Reuters) - Digital payments giant Stripe on Tuesday announced the opening of an office in United Arab Emirates financial capital Dubai, its first expansion into the Middle East region. Founded ...
Apr 06, 2021
Silicon Valley self-driving startup Gatik works with Isuzu to build delivery trucks
By Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) - Silicon Valley self-driving startup Gatik and Isuzu North America Corp on Tuesday said they will work together to build autonomous delivery trucks that Gatik will use to...
Apr 05, 2021
U.S. auto industry calls for government help as it warns of impact of chip shortage
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. auto industry group on Monday urged the government to help as it warned the global semiconductor shortage could result in 1.28 million fewer vehicles ...
Apr 05, 2021
