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Volkswagen seeks partnerships for battery materials ‘race’
By Christoph Steitz and Jan Schwartz FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen, Europe's largest carmaker, is in talks with suppliers to secure direct access to raw materials for electric vehicle (EV) batterie...
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U.S. senator says working on companion bills to House antitrust measures
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Amy Klobuchar, who chairs the Senate antitrust subcommittee, said that work is underway on companion legislation to antitrust bills introduced in the U.S....
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GM’s self-driving car unit Cruise to access $5 billion credit line
BERKELEY, California (Reuters) - General Motors Co's majority owned Cruise self-driving car subsidiary said on Tuesday it would gain access to a multi-year $5 billion line of credit with GM's finance ...
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Telecom Italia and Cisco seal cloud business services partnership
MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia's cloud business Noovle and U.S. technology firm Cisco have sealed a partnership to develop cloud services for companies and public administrations, they said in a sta...
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Spotify strikes exclusive deal with ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast
(Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA on Tuesday announced a multi-year deal to stream the popular podcast 'Call Her Daddy', hosted by Alex Cooper on its audio streaming platform, in its latest exclusive ...
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Top senator fears Big Tech at home as Alexa, Nest dominate
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress takes up the issue on Tuesday of yet another area where big tech firms -- in this case, Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google -- dominate, this time ...
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Tiger Global-backed Bright Health aims for over $14 billion valuation in U.S. IPO
(Reuters) - Bright Health Group, a health insurtech firm backed by Tiger Global and Blackstone, is aiming for a valuation of more than $14 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, according to a r...
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FedEx to test package deliveries with self-driving startup Nuro
By Nick Carey and Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - FedEx Corp and robotics company Nuro on Tuesday announced a multi-year agreement to test self-driving vehicles in the package delivery company's network, s...
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Lyft launches EV rental pilot program for ride-hail drivers in Northern California
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Lyft Inc said on Tuesday it will launch an electric vehicle rental pilot program for ride-hail drivers in a part of the San Francisco Bay Area in partnership with a local ut...
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Group messaging app IRL raises $170 million, valued at $1.17 billion
By Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) - Group messaging app IRL, short for in real life, on Tuesday said it raised $170 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund 2 that valued the com...
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