Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Ford aims to be world’s #2 electric vehicle maker within two years – COO
(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co expects to be the world's second largest electric vehicle manufacturer within two years, with annual production capacity of nearly 600,000, a top company executive said Frida...
Dec 03, 2021
PayPal says ‘buy now, pay later’ volumes surged 400% on Black Friday
By Rachel Armstrong LONDON (Reuters) - Volumes on PayPal Inc's 'buy now, pay later' platform were five times higher this Black Friday compared with a year earlier as the payments giant starts to gain ...
Dec 03, 2021
Factbox-Tesla’s Musk over halfway through his pledge with nearly $11 billion stake sale
By Hyunjoo Jin and Subrat Patnaik (Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has sold nearly $11 billion worth of shares since the world's richest person polled Twitter users about offloading 10%...
Dec 03, 2021
U.S. trade agency backs proposed EV tax credit despite Mexico’s objections
(Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Friday it was committed to legislation strengthening the U.S. electric vehicle industry despite its inclusion of a tax credit that has drawn ...
Dec 03, 2021
Facebook’s struggle with Gateway Pundit highlights challenge of containing disinformation
By Peter Eisler (Reuters) - The Gateway Pundit, a far-right news site, has used its Facebook page - with more than 630,000 followers - to post bogus stories alleging the 2020 election was stolen from ...
Dec 03, 2021
Global tax deal leaves billion-dollar loopholes, Reuters analysis finds
By Tom Bergin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Leaders of the world's largest economies hailed a recent agreement to overhaul global corporate tax rules as key ensuring multinationals paid their fair share of tax. ...
Dec 03, 2021
Russia files court cases for fines on annual turnover of Google, Meta – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's state communications regulator Roskomnadzor has filed administrative cases at a Moscow court against Google and Meta that could see fines imposed on the U.S. tech firms' an...
Dec 03, 2021
REUTERS NEXT-DBS CEO says hard for digital banks to gain market share in Singapore
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Singapore's soon-to-launch online-only banks will find it hard to carve out space in the city-state's market, DBS Chief Executive Piyush Gupta told the Reuters Next conference. "...
Dec 03, 2021
Jetpacks, flying cars and taxi drones: transport’s future is in the skies
By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Paramedics with jetpacks, border police in flying cars and city workers commuting by drone all sound like science fiction - but the concepts are part of a advanced a...
Dec 03, 2021
Fairphone finds market for responsibly sourced mobiles
By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) - What began as an awareness campaign in 2010 has in just over a decade grown into Fairphone, which last year sold thousands of phones made from responsibly sourced a...
Dec 02, 2021
