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South Korea weighs monetary fines to rein in app store operators
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Wednesday it plans to impose a fine on dominant app store operators such as Apple Inc and Alphabet's Google if they force app developers to use only their payment...
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Australian researchers to study how Tesla car batteries can power grid
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) on Wednesday said it would recruit Tesla Inc car owners around the world to analyse if the vehicle's spare battery capacity could support t...
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China Evergrande dissolves some units of online marketplace – media
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group has dissolved several district-level units of Fangchebao (FCB), its online real estate and automobile marketplace, due to shrinking capital and business, C...
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PE firm Permira invests $150 million in hiking app AllTrails
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - AllTrails, which operates a popular digital guide app for hikers, has raised $150 million in fresh capital from the growth fund of private equity firm Permira, the U.S. compa...
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Tesla’s Musk sells another 934,000 shares to pay taxes after exercising options – filing
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk exercises option to buy 2.1 million shares and sold another 934,091 shares solely to meet tax withholding obligations related to the exercise of...
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U.S. Senate confirms Google critic Kanter to head Justice Dept Antitrust Division
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Google critic Jonathan Kanter, who was backed by progressives, to head the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. In his confirmati...
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Musk, Brazilian govt discuss deal to provide rural Internet, monitor Amazon
By Gram Slattery RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Elon Musk and Brazilian Communications Minister Fabio Faria met in Austin on Tuesday to discuss a potential partnership that would leverage SpaceX technolog...
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Uber introduces revamped shared rides offer in the U.S
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc on Tuesday said it was resuming shared rides, which were scrapped during the pandemic, detailing a revamped offer aimed at reducing the previously high...
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Peru’s central bank joins global push to develop a digital currency
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru is joining the global push to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC), central bank President Julio Velarde said on Tuesday, as policymakers worldwide seek to keep pace wi...
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U.S. NTSB closes probe into fatal Tesla 2020 California crash
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday said it had closed an investigation into a fatal August 2020 Tesla crash in Saratoga, California without taking a...
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