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With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With Facebook's adoption of permanent remote work on Thursday, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has untethered one of Silicon Valley's biggest companies from the...
May 22, 2020
Pinduoduo beats revenue estimates as demand for online shopping soars
(Reuters) - China's Pinduoduo Inc beat first-quarter revenue estimates on Friday, as more people shopped at its e-commerce platform during coronavirus lockdowns that shut down most brick-and-mortar sh...
May 22, 2020
Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters
By Stanley Widianto and Fanny Potkin JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's election commission is investigating the release of 2.3 million voters' private information on a hacker website along with a threat...
May 22, 2020
How South Korea turned an urban planning system into a virus tracking database
By Hyonhee Shin, Hyunjoo Jin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - When a man in Seoul tested positive for the new coronavirus in May, South Korean authorities were able to confirm his wide-ranging movemen...
May 21, 2020
Philippine lawmaker proposes tax targeting tech giants to fund virus fight
MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine lawmaker has introduced a bill in parliament aimed at taxing big tech firms such as Facebook, Alphabet's Google and Youtube, Netflix and Spotify, to raise funds to batt...
May 21, 2020
Proxy adviser ISS recommends vote ‘against’ executive pay at Alphabet
(Reuters) - Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has recommended shareholders of Google-parent Alphabet Inc to vote "against" the company's proposed executive pay at its annual meet in June, accor...
May 21, 2020
SoftBank Group’s sale of 5% telco unit stake to raise $2.9 billion
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said on Friday its planned sale of 5% in its domestic telco SoftBank Corp would fetch 310.2 billion yen ($2.9 billion), as part of a programme to raise $41 billio...
May 21, 2020
U.S. strikes at a Huawei prize: chip juggernaut HiSilicon
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The latest U.S. government action against China's Huawei takes direct aim the company's HiSilicon chip division--a business that in a few short years has become ce...
May 21, 2020
Top safety official at Waymo self-driving unit stepping down
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Waymo self-driving unit said on Thursday that its chief safety officer, Debbie Hersman, was stepping down but would remain as a consultant to ...
May 21, 2020
Nvidia forecasts second-quarter revenue above estimates
(Reuters) - Nvidia Corp on Thursday forecast second-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates, as demand surges for its chips used in data centers that power the shift to working remotely due to the c...
May 21, 2020
