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Germany’s BaFin audits Wirecard accounts from 2017 to 2019
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's financial watchdog BaFin said on Wednesday it was conducting an audit of the accounts covering the past few years of the collapsed payments company Wirecard . BaFin sai...
Aug 04, 2020
Amazon starts preparations to launch in Sweden
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has started preparations to launch in Sweden, marking its first step to establish a local presence in a Nordic country. Swedish customers can already shop on Amazon through ...
Aug 04, 2020
EU antitrust regulators to investigate $2.1 billion Google, Fitbit deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators opened on Tuesday a four-month long investigation into Alphabet unit Google's $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit , saying the deal would fur...
Aug 04, 2020
India app ShareChat in talks with Sequoia, others to raise up to $200 million: sources
By Aditya Kalra, Aditi Shah and Anirban Sen NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian content-sharing platform ShareChat is in early-stage talks with U.S.-based Sequoia Capital and some other investors to raise up...
Aug 04, 2020
UK clears Amazon deal to buy 16% stake in online food platform Deliveroo
(Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator on Tuesday cleared Amazon's purchase of a 16% stake in online delivery group Deliveroo, following a provisional nod in June. The Competition and Markets Aut...
Aug 04, 2020
Booking.com wants to lay off a quarter of its staff: NRC Handelsblad
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Booking Holding Inc., the U.S.-based company that owns travel website Booking.com, wants to layoff one quarter of its 17,000 workers as a result of business lost during the coron...
Aug 04, 2020
Microsoft’s rescue attempt of TikTok endears old company to new generation
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Microsoft has emerged as a savior to young users of TikTok, who praised the tech industry giant for trying to buy parts of the social media company's operations, in hopes of...
Aug 04, 2020
Grab expands finance business with consumer loans services, wealth management
By Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Grab, Southeast Asia's biggest ridehailing firm, deepened its finance sector push on Tuesday by announcing that it will offer consumer loans services in Singapor...
Aug 04, 2020
ByteDance says goal of U.S. was to ban TikTok app rather than force a sale: internal letter
BEIJING (Reuters) - ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees in an internal letter on Tuesday that the United States goal was not to force a sale of TikTok U.S. operations but rather to ban the a...
Aug 04, 2020
Google Cloud prepares for Black Friday ‘peak on top of peak’
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google Cloud unit is poised for a surge in fourth-quarter sales from U.S. retailers, as they brace for record online shopping during the holid...
Aug 04, 2020
