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Don’t rely on social media tips, EU watchdog warns retail investors
LONDON (Reuters) - Retail investors should avoid using unverified information from social media to buy and sell stocks, the European Union's markets watchdog said on Wednesday. Retail investors follow...
Feb 17, 2021
Bitcoin’s record price unsustainable without lower volatility: JPMorgan
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin's charge to a record north of $50,000 isn't sustainable unless the cryptocurrency's price swings cool down quickly, JPMorgan analysts said in a note. The world's biggest dig...
Feb 17, 2021
Italian watchdog fines Facebook 7 million euros over improper data use
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it had fined Facebook 7 million euros ($8.5 million) for not complying with a request by the regulator to correct improper commercial pr...
Feb 17, 2021
Daimler’s Torc Robotics picks Amazon as cloud provider for self-driving trucks
By Nick Carey (Reuters) - Daimler AG unit Torc Robotics said on Wednesday it has selected Amazon's cloud computing division to handle huge amounts of data in real time as it prepares to test self-driv...
Feb 17, 2021
EU civil rights groups want ban on biometric surveillance ahead of new laws
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Civil and digital rights groups on Wednesday launched a petition seeking the support of one million Europeans to help pressure the European Union to ban biometric ...
Feb 17, 2021
Epic Games takes Apple fight to EU antitrust regulators
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Fortnite creator Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to EU antitrust regulators after failing to make headway in a U.S. court in a dispute over the iPhone...
Feb 17, 2021
Australian media firms squeeze more from Google as new law looms
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia claimed an early win in a protracted licencing battle with Google on Wednesday as media companies lined up to announce content deals with the internet giant ...
Feb 17, 2021
Melvin Capital raised put option on GameStop Class A shares to 6 million in fourth quarter 2020
(Reuters) - Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management on Tuesday disclosed it had raised the put option on Class A shares of U.S. video game chain GameStop Corp to 6 million shares for the quarter ended De...
Feb 16, 2021
Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises $850 million in fresh funding – CNBC
(Reuters) - Tesla boss Elon Musk's SpaceX completed an equity funding round of $850 million that sent its valuation to about $74 billion last week, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar wit...
Feb 16, 2021
ByteDance in preliminary talks to list TikTok in NYSE – Global Times
(Reuters) - TikTok's parent company ByteDance is in preliminary talks to list the video app on the New York Stock Exchange, China's Global Times newspaper tweeted https://bit.ly/3s06VL8 on Wednesday, ...
Feb 16, 2021
