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SoftBank seen booking 75% first-quarter profit drop as it returns to profitability
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp is seen booking a 75% first-quarter profit plunge on Tuesday, albeit making a return to profitability, as the coronavirus outbreak continued to weig...
Aug 06, 2020
Facebook employees to work from home until July 2021 due to coronavirus outbreak; get $1,000 for home offices
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will allow employees to work from home until July 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak and will give them $1,000 for home office needs, a spokeswoman for the...
Aug 06, 2020
Facebook bars pro-Trump PAC from advertising, citing repeated false posts
By Elizabeth Culliford and Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising aft...
Aug 06, 2020
Uber’s food-delivery business doubles; COVID-19 eviscerates rides demand
By Tina Bellon and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc said demand for its food-delivery service more than doubled in the second quarter as many users remained largely homebound, while dem...
Aug 06, 2020
T-Mobile beats second-quarter postpaid subscriber estimates
(Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc said on Thursday it added more monthly bill paying phone subscribers than expected in the second quarter, as more people used its services to stay connected and work remote...
Aug 06, 2020
Iranians get SMS barrage offering millions for info on U.S. election hacking
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Mohamad first got the text message offering him up to $10 million for information about attempts to interfere with the U.S. election, he thought it was "s...
Aug 06, 2020
Facebook removes small pro-Trump network based in Romania
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it recently removed a small network of accounts operating from Romania that had been promoting President Donald Trump's re-electi...
Aug 06, 2020
U.S. Senate bans TikTok app on government devices
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill from Senator Josh Hawley banning federal employees from using video-sharing app TikTok on government-issu...
Aug 06, 2020
Fed’s Brainard lays out central bank’s instant payment framework
By Pete Schroeder (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard laid out the framework for the central bank's instant payments system on Thursday, saying the Fed's plans call for getting the syst...
Aug 06, 2020
Microsoft expands TikTok takeover ambitions to entire global business: FT
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is chasing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global business, including its operations in India and Europe, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing five people with kno...
Aug 06, 2020
