Tag Archives: technology
Robinhood to roll out crypto recurring investments – blog
(Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc said on Wednesday it would roll out crypto recurring investments, allowing customers to buy digital coins commission-free and with as little as $1 on a schedule of th...
Sep 08, 2021
U.S. FTC meeting will scrutinize Big Tech’s small deals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will hold its next open meeting on Sept. 15 to hear staff findings on deals that Big Tech firms like Facebook and Apple make which are sometime...
Sep 08, 2021
Twitter tests ‘Communities’ feature for tweeting to groups
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Twitter on Wednesday launched a global test of a tool it calls Communities, a feature similar to Facebook Groups that gives users a way to tweet to people with simil...
Sep 08, 2021
Nvidia seeks EU approval for Arm deal, EU decision due Oct. 13
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nvidia on Wednesday filed for EU antitrust approval of its $54 billion takeover of British chip designer Arm, according to a submission on the European Commission website, kicking...
Sep 08, 2021
Russian tech firm Yandex to test self-driving taxis in Moscow this year
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Adventurous Muscovites may soon be able to travel around parts of Moscow in driverless taxis as Russian tech giant Yandex plans to start testing the autonomous vehicles in the city ...
Sep 08, 2021
IT guy-in-chief: president tries to fix El Salvador’s bitcoin woes
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele stepped in on Wednesday to closely manage the fraught roll-out of a payments app that underpins the nation's adoption o...
Sep 08, 2021
Pro-China social media campaign expands to new countries, blames U.S. for COVID
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A misinformation campaign on social media in support of Chinese government interests has expanded to new languages and platforms, and it even tried to get peop...
Sep 08, 2021
Cognizant reaches $95 million settlement with U.S. shareholders over India bribery allegations
(Reuters) - Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp has reached a $95 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit accusing the information technology services company of defrauding shareholders by concealing ...
Sep 08, 2021
Chinese govt summons gaming firms including Tencent and NetEase – Xinhua
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese gaming firms including Tencent Holdings Ltd and NetEase Inc were summoned by Chinese government officials, State media Xinhua reported on Wednesday. Gaming firms were tol...
Sep 08, 2021
Facebook fights British watchdog to retain GIF-maker Giphy
(Reuters) - Facebook has made a case for not selling Giphy in a strongly worded response to Britain's competition regulator, a document showed on Wednesday, and questioned if the watchdog could order ...
Sep 08, 2021
