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Vehicle charging in Valhalla: a heroic power struggle
By Nick Carey and Helena Soderpalm LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A stroll down Stockholm's longest street that takes its name from the mythical Valhalla, where Norse gods feast and fight until doomsday...
Dec 16, 2020
Hydrogen plane startup ZeroAvia gets backing from Amazon, Shell
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - Hydrogen plane startup ZeroAvia said on Wednesday it had secured $21.4 million in a funding round led by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures to develop zero-emiss...
Dec 15, 2020
Zoom to open R&D centre in Singapore, hire hundreds more
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications Inc said it would expand its presence in Singapore by opening a new research and development centre, where it will hire hundreds of engineering staff. T...
Dec 15, 2020
SMIC says board aware co-CEO Liang intends to resign
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's biggest chipmaker SMIC said on Wednesday its board is aware that Mong-song Liang intends to resign from the co-CEO role. The company is working actively to verify Liang's...
Dec 15, 2020
Coalition of U.S. states likely to file new antitrust lawsuit against Google – Politico
(Reuters) - A coalition of states in the United States is expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google alleging that it altered the designs of its search engine to the disadvant...
Dec 15, 2020
Texas hiring two law firms for Google probe team
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Texas attorney general's office has named The Lanier Law Firm and the law firm Keller Lenkner to the litigation team that would face off against Alphabet's Google in an expe...
Dec 15, 2020
Australian regulator sues Facebook over now-ended app’s use of data
(Reuters) - Australia's competition regulator said on Wednesday it filed a court case against Facebook Inc for misleading consumers over the use of data collected by a now-discontinued mobile analytic...
Dec 15, 2020
Amazon urges judge to set aside $10 billion cloud contract award to Microsoft
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon.com urged a U.S. judge to toss out the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract award after the Defense Department in September said a court-ordered re-evalua...
Dec 15, 2020
E-commerce firm Wish raises $1.1 billion in IPO -source
(Reuters) - E-commerce firm ContextLogic Inc sold shares in its initial public offering (IPO) on Tuesday at $24 apiece, at the top of its target range, to raise $1.1 billion, according to a person fam...
Dec 15, 2020
Twitter to shut down streaming app Periscope by March
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it would shut down live-streaming app Periscope, which it bought in 2015, due to declining usage over the past couple of years and high supporting costs. The mo...
Dec 15, 2020
