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Analysis: New blank-check firms arm up for Asian unicorn hunt
By Anshuman Daga and Kane Wu SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - A new fundraising frenzy that swept Wall Street this year looks set to take hold in Asia with more than a dozen special purpose acquisition...
Dec 21, 2020
Exclusive: Self-driving startup Ouster nears $1.9 billion deal to go public – sources
By Joshua Franklin and Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Ouster Inc, a U.S. startup that makes lidar sensors for self-driving cars and smart cities, is nearing a deal to go public at a roughly $1.9 billion val...
Dec 21, 2020
Australian regulator rejects Google’s undertaking to ease competition concerns on Fitbit deal
(Reuters) - Australia's antitrust regulator on Tuesday rejected a behavioural undertaking offered by Alphabet Inc-owned Google that sought to address competition concerns over its planned $2.1 billion...
Dec 21, 2020
Microsoft, Google, Cisco, VMware join legal battle against hacking company NSO
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet , Cisco, and VMware on Monday joined Facebook's legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing an amicus brief in federal court that war...
Dec 21, 2020
Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes ‘next level’ battery technology – sources
By Stephen Nellis, Norihiko Shirouzu and Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include i...
Dec 21, 2020
U.S. Treasury confirms SolarWinds hack as more officials blame Russia
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. secretary of the Treasury on Monday publicly confirmed that his department had been breached - more than a week after Reuters first reported the hack....
Dec 21, 2020
Russia accuses Booking.com of violating competition law
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has accused hotel reservation website Booking.com of violating anti-monopoly law, the regulator said on Monday. The statement from the F...
Dec 21, 2020
Yandex warns against limiting foreign ownership in Russian online streaming services
By Nadezhda Tsydenova and Anna Rzhevkina (Reuters) - A draft law proposing to limit foreign shareholdings in Russian companies that offer online video streaming services to 20% could worsen the invest...
Dec 21, 2020
U.S. Treasury has not seen any damage from widespread hack-CNBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A recently uncovered hacking campaign of U.S. agencies impacted the Treasury Department's unclassified systems but the department has not seen any damage, Treasury Secretary Ste...
Dec 21, 2020
IBM to buy European cloud startup Nordcloud
(Reuters) - International Business Machines will acquire European startup Nordcloud, the latest in a series of acquisitions for the 109-year old firm preparing a mega spin-off to focus on cloud comput...
Dec 21, 2020
