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Time for Norway to tax luxury electric cars, IMF economists say
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway should begin taxing high-end battery-powered cars to lower the overall cost of its generous electric vehicle (EV) incentives, economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF...
Jun 10, 2021
Amazon likely to see $425 million EU privacy fine – WSJ
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is likely to face a fine of more than $425 million under the European Union's privacy law, the Wall Street Journal reported https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-faces-possibl...
Jun 10, 2021
Payments firm Klarna’s valuation rises to $46 billion after fundraising
By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish payments firm Klarna has raised $639 million from a group of investors led by SoftBank's Vision Fund II, lifting its valuation to about $46 billion ...
Jun 10, 2021
Microsoft plans to tap smart TVs, streaming devices for Xbox games
By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Thursday it was working with global TV manufacturers so that gamers can play Xbox games through internet-connected televisions without any...
Jun 10, 2021
Waymo, J.B. Hunt test robo-trucks in Texas
DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. truck fleet operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc and autonomous vehicle technology company Waymo will test human-supervised, self-driving trucks to deliver cargo between ...
Jun 10, 2021
Verizon turns on commercial private 5G in U.S.
By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Verizon Business on Thursday launched its first commercially available private 5G network in the U.S. to offer businesses and government departments high-sp...
Jun 10, 2021
El Salvador’s bitcoin push: What does it mean for cryptocurrency?
By Tom Wilson and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) - El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, with President Nayib Bukele touting its use for its potent...
Jun 10, 2021
Russian court fines Facebook for failing to delete banned content
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court said on Thursday it had fined U.S. technology giant Facebook Inc 17 million roubles (about $235,000) for failing to delete content which Moscow deems illegal. ($1 = ...
Jun 10, 2021
French and Swiss central banks to trial wholesale digital currencies
By John Revill and Marc Jones ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank and the Bank of France will trial Europe's first cross-border central bank digital currency payments, the banks said on ...
Jun 10, 2021
Google, Facebook pledged millions for local news. Was it enough?
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Facing regulatory and political pressure, Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google in recent years committed a combined $600 million to support news outlets globally - many of th...
Jun 10, 2021
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