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Musk’s SpaceX, Bezos’ Blue Origin land contracts to build NASA’s astronaut moon lander
(Reuters) - NASA on Thursday selected space firms SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to build lunar landing systems that can carry astronauts to the moon by 2024, the White House's accelerated deadline ...
Apr 30, 2020
AT&T brings ad unit Xandr under WarnerMedia ahead of HBO Max launch
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Thursday it will bring its advertising unit Xandr under its WarnerMedia label, which is set to launch its streaming channel HBO Max in May. The move comes two months after...
Apr 30, 2020
Coronavirus to accelerate UK grocery’s digital shift, says Sainsbury’s boss
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a digital shift in UK grocery shopping as Britons embrace home delivery, click and collect and technologies such as in-store ...
Apr 30, 2020
UK privacy advocates warn over COVID-19 contact tracing app
LONDON (Reuters) - Leading privacy advocates in Britain have urged the government to prevent a soon-to-be launched COVID-19 contact tracing app from turning into a form of state surveillance. Countrie...
Apr 30, 2020
Cut us some slack, German travel start-ups tell Google
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - A group of leading German travel start-ups appealed to U.S. tech giant Google on Thursday to offer them easier terms on paying for advertising to help them ride o...
Apr 30, 2020
Twitter sales top estimates, sees rebound from Asia’s eased coronavirus rules
By Paresh Dave and Elizabeth Culliford OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Thursday said its ads sales slightly rebounded in Asia after a plunge due to the coronavirus outbreak and it had accel...
Apr 30, 2020
Zoom admits it does not have 300 mln daily users: the Verge
(Reuters) - Zoom video conferencing app does not have 300 million daily active users, the company admitted on Thursday to the Verge, saying it "unintentionally" referred to daily meeting participants ...
Apr 30, 2020
Nigeria’s tech experts step in to help those losing livelihoods under lockdown
By Libby George and Nneka Chile LAGOS(Reuters) - Tech startup founder Ebun Okubanjo watched with dismay as his home city of Lagos entered a coronavirus-containment lockdown, knowing well that millions...
Apr 30, 2020
Orange in talks with Apple on French contact-tracing app
PARIS (Reuters) - Orange is in intense discussions with Apple over developing France's smartphone app for tracing people who are at risk of coronavirus infection, the French company's CEO Stephane Ric...
Apr 30, 2020
Facebook could address some U.S. antitrust concerns with new photo transfer tool
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will allow users in the United States and Canada to transfer photos and videos to a rival tech platform for the first time - a step that could assua...
Apr 30, 2020
