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The Empires Strike Back: Disney, Comcast, AT&T set streaming battle
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Next year, as coronavirus vaccines roll out around the world, consumers are expected to return to restaurants, sports arenas and cinemas. But with films like "Matrix 4," "I...
Dec 18, 2020
CD Projekt not in talks with Microsoft about Cyberpunk 2077 withdrawal
WARSAW/GDANSK, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's CD Projekt is not in talks with Xbox producer Microsoft about a possible withdrawal from sale of a console version of Cyberpunk 2077, the company's chief exe...
Dec 18, 2020
Zoom’s Christmas gift: no cap on call lengths over the holidays
LONDON (Reuters) - Friends and families kept apart by COVID this Christmas and New Year will not find their virtual gatherings over Zoom cut short by the usual 40-minute limit for free subscribers. Zo...
Dec 18, 2020
Exclusive: Indonesia e-commerce giant Tokopedia aims for $1 billion dual U.S., domestic IPO – sources
By Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Indonesia's Tokopedia is lining up an initial public offering (IPO) worth at least $1 billion next year, two people with knowledge of the matter said, in what co...
Dec 18, 2020
Tencent-led consortium buys extra 10% of Vivendi’s Universal
PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi said on Friday a Tencent-led consortium would exercise its option to buy an additional 10% stake in Universal Music Group (UMG), home to Taylor Swift and The Beatles, based o...
Dec 18, 2020
Tesla heads to the S&P after meteoric rise and some investors want more
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Is it too late to join the Tesla party? Shares of the electric vehicle maker are up nearly 700% over the last year, a meteoric rise that has punished short-seller...
Dec 18, 2020
Tesla to see unprecedented trade ahead of S&P 500 debut
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Tesla's grand entrance into the S&P 500 is expected to be preceded by a huge trade, with an unprecedented $80 billion of the electric car maker's stock changing hands by ...
Dec 18, 2020
Analysis: Central bankers comb for crypto clues as Bahamas launches ‘Sand Dollar’
By Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) - It didn't seem like a revolution. A botanical green smoothie and a snapper fish burger, it was. In a Bahamas health-food cafe. But future generations might look back a...
Dec 18, 2020
Bezos’ Blue Origin to deliver first flight-ready rocket engines next summer – ULA CEO
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executive of United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint rocket venture between Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp, said it expects to receive two new rocke...
Dec 17, 2020
Exclusive-U.S. to blacklist dozens of Chinese firms including SMIC, sources say
By Alexandra Alper, David Shepardson and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blackl...
Dec 17, 2020
