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Analysis: India startups seek high-tech solutions to colossal food waste
By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Startups and venture capital are pouring into what might seem an unlikely place: India's vast, outdated agriculture industry. Seizing on co...
Nov 11, 2020
Sony PS5 sold out online as pandemic chills real-world retailing
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's PlayStation 5 (PS5) console launched in core markets on Thursday to intense interest online, but with first day real-world sales limited to pre-order pick-u...
Nov 11, 2020
YouTube outage affects 286,000 users, says fixing error on platform
(Reuters) - YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google , said late on Wednesday it was fixing an error, which outage monitoring website Downdetector.com said affected about 286,000 users. "Our team is aw...
Nov 11, 2020
U.S. Treasury seeks ‘resolution’ with ByteDance on security concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said late on Wednesday it wants to reach a resolution of national security risks it has raised over ByteDance's 2017 acquisition on Musical.ly, whic...
Nov 11, 2020
Tech companies tied to U.S. lawsuit against Google ask judge to extend protective order deadline
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp, Oracle Corp and other companies that have provided information to the government for its antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet's Google requested mor...
Nov 11, 2020
Google curtails free photo storage, pushes users to buy more space
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google will start limiting how many high-quality photos users can store on the company's cloud back-up service starting next June, it announce...
Nov 11, 2020
U.S. aide warns Brazil, without evidence, of Huawei 5G ‘Big Brother’ surveillance
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A U.S. official said on Wednesday that Chinese surveillance of the world through 5G technology was like Big Brother in George Orwell's novel 1984, as he urged Brazilian companies ...
Nov 11, 2020
Mercedes-Benz Berlin plant head to join Tesla, union says
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The head of the Berlin engine plant run by Mercedes-Benz has defected to rival Tesla, German union IG Metall said on Wednesday, calling on employees to protest over his departure...
Nov 11, 2020
BMW CEO says he is weighing options for mobility JV with Daimler
By Joseph White DETROIT (Reuters) - BMW AG Chief Executive Oliver Zipse said Wednesday he is weighing options for the company's mobility services joint venture with Daimler AG, including bringing in n...
Nov 11, 2020
Air taxi startup Lilium’s first U.S. hub to be in Florida
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - Flying taxi startup Lilium will set up its first U.S. hub near Orlando, putting more than 20 million Floridians within range of the winged electric aircraft that ...
Nov 11, 2020
