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VW to start using high-nickel batteries for electric car
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen will raise the amount of nickel used in it electric car battery cells to 80% in the next year from 65% at present, Frank Blome, head of battery cells at the carmaker s...
Mar 17, 2020
Facebook to award $100 million in grants, ad credits to small businesses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said Tuesday it plans to award $100 million in cash grants and ad credits for up to 30,000 small businesses in over 30 countries to address the economic impact of t...
Mar 17, 2020
Europe to shut borders as lengthy virus crisis looms
By Gabriela Baczynska and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders meeting via videoconference on Tuesday are likely to seal off Europe's external borders and stress a "whatever...
Mar 17, 2020
Italy rushes to promote new doctors to relieve coronavirus crisis
By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping their final exams, in an effort to help the struggling health service cope with the...
Mar 17, 2020
“Preparing for war”: Africans scramble for groceries
By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Alarmed consumers thronged markets across Africa on Tuesday, many in masks and gloves, to stock up as the coronavirus spread on the world's poorest contine...
Mar 17, 2020
Britain’s O2 says some customers struggling with voice calls
LONDON (Reuters) - British mobile operator O2, owned by Spain's Telefonica, said it had received reports of some customers struggling with its voice network as Britons started working from home to avo...
Mar 17, 2020
Spain turns back cars from land borders as coronavirus death toll rises to 491
By Sonya Dowsett and Miguel Pereira MADRID/VILAR FORMOSO, Portugal (Reuters) - Spain set up police checks at its land borders with France and Portugal on Tuesday and turned back foreigners attempting ...
Mar 17, 2020
U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity firm Axis Security raises $17 million
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Axis Security, whose technology provides organizations secure control of private application access, said on Tuesday it raised $17 million in early stage funding. The initial inve...
Mar 17, 2020
Dutch appeals court: no need for KPN, Ziggo to open networks to rivals
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday ruled the country's two largest telecommunications providers, KPN NV and VodafoneZiggo, do not have to open their fixed-line networks to competit...
Mar 17, 2020
Spain’s coronavirus cases surpass 10,000, death toll rises to 491
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's tally of coronavirus cases surpassed 10,000 on Tuesday and the number of fatalities rose to 491, said Fernando Simon, the head of the country's health emergency center. He s...
Mar 17, 2020
