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Amazon planning to reopen its French warehouses from May 19
PARIS (Reuters) - Amazon said on Friday it aims to gradually reopen its French warehouses from May 19 as it finalizes an agreement with unions and work councils to end a dispute over coronavirus prote...
May 15, 2020
Exclusive: India watchdog reviewing antitrust allegations against Facebook’s WhatsApp – sources
By Aditi Shah and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust watchdog is looking into allegations that Facebook's WhatsApp is abusing its dominant position by offering payment services to it...
May 15, 2020
32 U.S. senators urge FCC to reconsider Ligado spectrum order
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of 32 U.S. senators on Friday urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider a decision to allow Ligado Networks to deploy a lo...
May 15, 2020
Facebook buys GIF website Giphy to integrate with Instagram
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which was not d...
May 15, 2020
Colombia regulator to investigate delivery apps for Mother’s Day delays
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's commerce regulator said on Friday it will investigate mobile applications Rappi, Uber Eats, iFood and Domicilios.com for failure to fulfill delivery times, delays in retu...
May 15, 2020
Indonesia to impose VAT on streaming, other digital services from July
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will require big internet companies to pay value-added taxes (VAT) on sales of digital products and services from July as part of efforts to boost revenue amid the corona...
May 15, 2020
China ready to put Apple, other U.S. companies in ‘unreliable entity list’: Global Times
(Reuters) - China is ready to put U.S. companies in an "unreliable entity list," as part of countermeasures against Washington's move to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies, the G...
May 15, 2020
U.S. extends temporary general license for Huawei
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday announced that it was extending the Temporary General License that allows certain transactions with Huawei Technologies Co Ltd for another 90 days...
May 15, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. moves to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action that could ramp up ...
May 15, 2020
Japan’s Rakuten 5G launch delayed due to coronavirus
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Rakuten Inc said on Friday the launch of its 5G services that was planned for June had been delayed by at least three months due to the impact on supply chains by the coronav...
May 15, 2020
