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Booking.com wins at U.S. Supreme Court in bid to trademark its name
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The travel reservation company Booking.com, a unit of Booking Holdings Inc, deserves to be able to trademark its name, the U.S. Supreme Court decided on Tuesday, ov...
Jun 30, 2020
Hedge funds were right to short-sell Wirecard, says industry body
LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds were right to target Wirecard after "forensic analysis" showed there was something amiss since 2014 at the now collapsed German payments company, industry body AIMA said...
Jun 30, 2020
Facebook agrees to audit its hate speech controls
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Monday it would submit itself to an audit of how it controls hate speech in a bid to appease a growing advertising boycott of the platform, as it prepar...
Jun 30, 2020
Apple not dominant in any market, plenty of rivals, senior executive says
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - IPhone maker Apple, the target of EU antitrust investigations into key segments of its business, on Tuesday rejected accusations of market dominance, saying it com...
Jun 30, 2020
Netflix to spend about $100 million to support African-American communities
(Reuters) - Netflix Inc will allocate 2%, or about $100 million, of its cash holdings to financial institutions and organizations that directly support African American communities in the United State...
Jun 30, 2020
Thailand to regulate online and food delivery services
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved measures to regulate food and online delivery services after customer complaints during the country's coronavirus lockdown, a senior governme...
Jun 30, 2020
Wirecard’s former boss faces criminal complaint in Austria
VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian lawyer has filed a criminal complaint against Wirecard's former Chief Executive Markus Braun and Chief Operating Officer Jan Marsalek at a court in Vienna, accusing them...
Jun 30, 2020
More Britons take a bet on bitcoin
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The number of people in Britain buying cryptoassets like bitcoin and ether has more than doubled over the past year, but many are still unaware they have no protection ...
Jun 30, 2020
UK PM Johnson says on Huawei: we must protect from ‘hostile state vendors’
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that Britain needed to protect its critical national infrastructure from "hostile state vendors" when deciding what role China's Huawei ...
Jun 30, 2020
New rules may be needed for payments in wake of Wirecard, BIS boss says
LONDON (Reuters) - More joined up rules may be needed across the payments sector after the collapse of Germany's Wirecard AG, Bank for International Settlements president Augustin Carstens said. Wirec...
Jun 30, 2020
