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Sony in talks with AT&T to buy Crunchyroll for more than $950 million: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp is in final talks with AT&T to acquire U.S. animation-streaming service Crunchyroll in a deal worth more than 100 billion yen ($957 million), the Nikkei business daily repo...
Oct 30, 2020
Alibaba to kick off China’s first post-pandemic ‘Singles Day’ early
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will kick off its mega-shopping extravaganza "Singles Day" early this year, a move that will likely see a big jump in its sales a...
Oct 30, 2020
Indian bourse to consult regulator on Future-Reliance deal after Amazon objection: source
By Abhirup Roy and Aditya Kalra MUMBAI/NEW DELHI(Reuters) - India's Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) will consult the market regulator and seek clarifications from Future Retail and Reliance Industries abo...
Oct 30, 2020
Crypto hedge funds rack up steep gains on lending surge
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency hedge funds have posted hefty gains so far this year, benefiting from the surge in transactions that allow lenders and borrowers to tran...
Oct 30, 2020
Angry Birds maker Rovio reports profit jump
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Rovio Entertainment, maker of the 10-year-old "Angry Birds" mobile game series, on Friday reported a 138% jump in third-quarter adjusted operating profit, helped by lower marketin...
Oct 30, 2020
China must commit to battery recycling in electric vehicle boom: Greenpeace
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China needs to step up the recycling and repurposing of batteries for electric vehicles in order to ease supply strains and curb pollution and carbon emissions, environmental grou...
Oct 29, 2020
LG Chem shareholders approve plan to split off battery business: source
SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Chem shareholders approved the company's proposal to separate its battery business into a new company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The decision paves...
Oct 29, 2020
Instagram to suspend recent content amplification to stop spread of fake election news
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram said on Thursday it was making changes to its image sharing platform to prevent the spread of misinformation around the U.S. presidential election. For users in th...
Oct 29, 2020
Wary of security issues, Japan’s government moves to shut China out of its drone supply chain
By Kaori Kaneko and Izumi Nakagawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan may effectively shut off China from supplying drones to its government to protect sensitive information, according to six people in governmen...
Oct 29, 2020
Cisco’s Webex Teams suffers outage causing meeting failures
(Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc's team collaboration app Webex Teams suffered an outage for more than two hours on Thursday, but the company later said its services had started to recover. At the time o...
Oct 29, 2020
