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Box shareholders re-elect company directors; Starboard fails to win any seats
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) -Box Inc won a proxy contest against Starboard Value after the cloud services provider's shareholders backed all three board directors the hedge fund was challenging, ...
Sep 09, 2021
Schiff presses Facebook, Amazon on efforts to curb COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Adam Schiff on Thursday called on Facebook and Amazon to provide a more thorough explanation of their efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misi...
Sep 09, 2021
Facebook developing machine learning chip – The Information
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is developing a machine learning chip to handle tasks such as content recommendation to users, The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the projec...
Sep 09, 2021
As ‘buy now, pay later’ surges, a third of U.S. users fall behind on payments
By Anna Irrera (Reuters) - A third of U.S. consumers who used "buy now, pay later" services have fallen behind on one or more payments, and 72% of those said their credit score declined, a new study p...
Sep 09, 2021
Blockstream to partner with Australia’s Macquarie for green bitcoin mining
(Reuters) - Blockchain firm Blockstream Mining said on Thursday it would partner with Australian financial conglomerate Macquarie Group to develop bitcoin mining facilities that use renewable energy. ...
Sep 09, 2021
Nio may delay Hong Kong listing to next year – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio Inc may delay its planned Hong Kong listing to next year, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The U.S.-traded co...
Sep 09, 2021
Russia’s Yandex says it repelled biggest DDoS attack in history
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex's servers in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the c...
Sep 09, 2021
Europe’s video gaming stocks drop after new China suspension scare
By Danilo Masoni MILAN (Reuters) - Europe's video game stocks fell on Thursday and U.S. peers looked set to follow after a reported suspension of approvals for new online games in China, the world's N...
Sep 09, 2021
Google under new EU antitrust investigation – MLex reporter
(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc's Google is facing a renewed EU antitrust investigation into whether it may have forced device manufacturers to use Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on Android d...
Sep 09, 2021
Exclusive-Singapore’s ADVANCE.AI raising $200 million from Warburg Pincus-led investors – sources
By Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore-headquartered tech startup ADVANCE.AI is raising about $200 million in a funding round that will propel it into a small group of Southeast Asia unicorn...
Sep 09, 2021
