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Facebook to add more account security features next year
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would start allowing users to set up physical security keys as a way to verify their identity before logging into the social network's mobile app, beginning...
Dec 22, 2020
Tesla pulls S&P 500 lower for second day in index
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Shares of Tesla dropped 4% on Tuesday, down for a second straight day following the electric car maker's debut in the S&P 500. The stock has lost 10% since Friday, when i...
Dec 22, 2020
U.S. House intel chair wants briefing on recent hacking campaign
(Reuters) - U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff on Tuesday asked for a briefing from U.S. agencies about a widespread hack of U.S. government networks and potential vulnerabilities....
Dec 22, 2020
Apple shares rise on report of 2024 car rollout plan
(Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc rose 3% in pre-market trading on Tuesday, a day after Reuters exclusively reported that the iPhone maker is aiming to produce a passenger vehicle by 2024 with its own b...
Dec 22, 2020
Led by IPOs, Israeli tech exits jump to record $15 billion in 2020 -PwC
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli high-tech exits jumped 55% to a record $15.4 billion in 2020, boosted by a rise in companies holding public share offerings in the United States and Tel Aviv despite the ...
Dec 22, 2020
Ouster, maker of self-driving tech, agrees $1.9 billion deal to go public
By Joshua Franklin and Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Ouster Inc, a U.S. startup that makes lidar sensors for self-driving cars and smart cities, said on Tuesday it has agreed to go public through a merger ...
Dec 22, 2020
Blockchain firm Ripple plans to fight approaching U.S. SEC lawsuit
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ripple, the blockchain payments company associated with the cryptocurrency XRP, said on Tuesday it would oppose a lawsuit against it by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio...
Dec 22, 2020
‘Beyond’ gambling, Macau turns to tech to establish China gateway
By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Macau is betting on a new tech trade fair to help diversify its gambling-reliant economy and establish itself as a gateway to China as it recovers from coro...
Dec 22, 2020
Analysis: From famine to feast, investment in European tech startups roars back
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - With Europe in coronavirus lockdown, venture capital fund manager Fergal Mullen told his investors in April he would find it hard to back a startup without first ...
Dec 22, 2020
Google, Facebook agreed to team up against possible antitrust action, draft lawsuit says – WSJ
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google agreed to "cooperate and assist one another" in case of an investigation into their pact to work together in online advertising, the Wall Street Jour...
Dec 22, 2020
