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Chinese smartphone brands in India turn to expensive imports as plants struggle: sources
By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Corp and Oppo are importing some smartphone models into India as their local plants struggle to get back to production levels needed to meet d...
Jun 11, 2020
Battling anti-encryption drive, tech companies pledge new child abuse disclosures
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tech companies including Facebook, Google and Microsoft on Thursday pledged to improve and standardise annual disclosures around online child exploitation, as t...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. podcast platform Pockets Casts says Apple removed app from China store
(Reuters) - New York-based podcasting platform Pocket Casts said its app had been taken down from Apple Inc's app store in China. Reuters couldn't immediately verify why the app was no longer availabl...
Jun 11, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric to acquire plant from Sharp to boost EV power chip output
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp said on Thursday it would buy part of a plant in western Japan from Sharp Corp to meet growing demand for power management chips used in electric veh...
Jun 11, 2020
Tesla wins China approval to build Model 3 vehicles with LFP batteries: ministry
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tesla Inc has received government approval to build Model 3 vehicles in China equipped with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, a document on Ministry of Industry and Informati...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. EPA orders Amazon, eBay to stop selling unsafe COVID-19 products: Bloomberg
(Reuters) - E-commerce companies Amazon Inc and eBay Inc have been instructed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop selling unproven or unsafe disinfectants, including products fal...
Jun 11, 2020
Just Eat Takeaway dip again after $7.3 billion U.S. Grubhub buy
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European food-ordering firm Just Eat Takeaway.com NV's proposed $7.3 billion all-share acquisition of U.S. peer Grubhub Inc was met with investor scepticism, sending its shares d...
Jun 11, 2020
Zoom suspends U.S.-based activists’ account after Tiananmen event
By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications temporarily shut the account belonging to a group of U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st annivers...
Jun 10, 2020
Europe’s Just Eat Takeaway to buy U.S. delivery firm Grubhub for $7.3 billion
(Reuters) - European food ordering firm Just Eat Takeaway.com NV on Wednesday announced a $7.3 billion deal to buy U.S. food delivery firm Grubhub Inc and create the world's biggest food delivery comp...
Jun 10, 2020
Amazon implements one-year moratorium on police use of facial recognition software
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it was implementing a one-year moratorium on the use of its facial recognition software by the police following backlash over the use of racially biased su...
Jun 10, 2020
