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U.S. Justice Department to propose rolling back protections for big tech
b'b\'WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to proposes legislation as soon as Wednesday to try to remove protections that big tech platforms like Alphabet\\\'s Google and Fac...
Jun 17, 2020
Pepper spray and scuffles as bargain hunters crowd Lidl launch in France
b'b\'ORGEVAL, France (Reuters) - French police pushed back several hundred people jostling to get their hands on cut-price PlayStation 4s at the launch of a new Lidl supermarket outside Paris on Wedne...
Jun 17, 2020
Google releases new ad features to help small businesses
b'b\'By Sheila Dang\\n(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc\\\'s Google on Wednesday introduced new advertising features intended to help local businesses get more customers and recover from the coronavirus pandem...
Jun 17, 2020
Website platform Contentful raises $80 million from investors
b'b\'BERLIN (Reuters) - Contentful, a startup based in Berlin and San Francisco, said on Wednesday it had raised $80 million from investors led by Sapphire Ventures to scale up its content management ...
Jun 17, 2020
Special delivery: activists urge France to rein in Amazon
b'b\'PARIS (Reuters) - Environmental campaigners delivered a 12-foot (3.6-metre) tall mock-up of an Amazon parcel to the French finance ministry on Wednesday to demand that the government rein in the ...
Jun 17, 2020
Coronavirus turmoil fuels the rise of AI-powered companies
b'b\'By Rajesh Kumar Singh\\nCHICAGO (Reuters) - For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows them to track all their...
Jun 17, 2020
U.S. commerce chief: Huawei rule is a ‘clarification’ – Fox Business Network
b'b\'WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. rule regarding China\\\'s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is a needed "clarification" to help develop standards, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday...
Jun 17, 2020
U.S.-Israeli fintech firm Pagaya raises $102 million in funds
b'b"TEL AVIV (Reuters) - U.S.-Israeli Pagaya, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to manage institutional money, said on Wednesday it raised $102 million in a private funding round.\\nInsurer Afla...
Jun 17, 2020
German coronavirus tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times
b'b"BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany\'s smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the CEO of software company SAP said...
Jun 17, 2020
Facebook closes political ads loophole ahead of U.S. presidential election
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would affix labels to political ads shared by users on their own feeds, closing what critics have said for years was a glaring l...
Jun 16, 2020
