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Biden administration seeks corporate America’s help tracking cyber criminals
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has a message for corporate America: The U.S. Justice Department needs its help in order to take down cyber criminals....
Oct 20, 2021
Enter the Zuckerverse? Social media churns with new names for Facebook
By Nivedita Balu and Antonio Denti (Reuters) - Zuckerverse. Timesuck. Faceplant. They're just a few of the suggestions being bandied around online following reports that Facebook plans to rebrand itse...
Oct 20, 2021
U.S. Senator Blumenthal calls on Facebook’s Zuckerberg to testify
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, called on Wednesday for Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to testify at a hearing about how its subsidiary Instagram ...
Oct 20, 2021
Fed’s Quarles says he doesn’t see rationale for central bank digital currency
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Governor Randal Quarles, until recently the U.S. central bank's top financial regulator, on Wednesday said he does not understand the arguments in favor of issuing a centra...
Oct 20, 2021
Tesla lobbies Modi’s office in India to slash taxes before it enters market-sources
By Aditi Shah and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Tesla Inc has urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office to slash import taxes on electric vehicles before it enters the market, four sourc...
Oct 20, 2021
Fund advisor presses EV startup Rivian on environment, human rights ahead of IPO
By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - A union-affiliated pension fund advisor said it is pressing Rivian on human rights and environment concerns in the electric vehicle startup's battery supply chain ah...
Oct 20, 2021
U.S. moves to control sales of hacking tools abroad
By Christopher Bing (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday announced new rules intended to curb the sale of offensive cybersecurity products to some countries with "authoritarian" pract...
Oct 20, 2021
PayPal in talks to buy Pinterest – source
By Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) -Payments giant PayPal Holdings Inc is in talks to buy digital pinboard site Pinterest Inc, according to a person directly familiar with the matter. The companies have di...
Oct 20, 2021
America Movil says ready to launch 5G in Mexico; plans to sell Tracfone this year
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil said on Wednesday that it was "ready" to launch a 5G market in Mexico and that it expects to close a deal to sell its Tracfone un...
Oct 20, 2021
Logistics tech firm Flock Freight turns unicorn after SoftBank-led funding
(Reuters) - U.S. logistics technology firm Flock Freight said on Wednesday it had reached a valuation of more than $1 billion, after raising $215 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund...
Oct 20, 2021
