Tag Archives: technology
Bitcoin bruised after chaotic debut as legal tender in El Salvador
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bitcoin licked its wounds on Wednesday, a day after its heaviest losses in 2-1/2 months as El Salvador's historic adoption of the crypto asset as legal tender caused chaos online and...
Sep 08, 2021
BHP signs partnership deal with billionaire-backed AI explorer KoBold
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - BHP Group will team up with billionaire-backed AI exploration firm KoBold Metals to look for battery minerals like copper and nickel in Australia and other global locations, the ...
Sep 08, 2021
Analysis-With GameStop earnings on tap, options traders bet on muted moves
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Options traders are expecting comparatively subdued moves in GameStop Inc shares around its earnings report, as the company that helped spark the so-called me...
Sep 08, 2021
PayPal snaps up Japanese buy now, pay later firm Paidy for $2.7 billion
(Reuters) -PayPal Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it would acquire Japanese buy now, pay later firm Paidy for $2.7 billion in cash, as the U.S. payments company looks to expand its reach in the Asian cou...
Sep 07, 2021
New Zealand banks, post office hit by outages in apparent cyber attack
By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) - Websites of a number of financial institutions in New Zealand and its national postal service were briefly down on Wednesday, with officials saying they were battli...
Sep 07, 2021
Factbox-What is the ‘metaverse’ and how does it work?
By Joori Roh (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has sparked huge interest in shared virtual environments, or the "metaverse". Here's how it works: WHAT IS THE METAVERSE? Metaverse, a term first coin...
Sep 07, 2021
South Korea’s ‘Gen MZ’ leads rush into the ‘metaverse’
By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean engineer Shaun has big plans to develop the parcels of land he has snapped up for millions of won (thousands of dollars) in recent years into long-term mone...
Sep 07, 2021
Volta Trucks picks former Austrian MAN plant to build trucks
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - Electric truck startup Volta Trucks said on Wednesday its first trucks will be made under contract starting late 2022 at a former MAN truck plant in Austria by Steyr A...
Sep 07, 2021
Factbox-A glimpse under the hood of El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment
By Anthony Esposito and Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador on Tuesday rolled out cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender, an unprecedented move that faced some technical hiccups on it...
Sep 07, 2021
Oxbotica to develop multi-purpose self-driving vehicle with AppliedEV
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - Self-driving software startup Oxbotica said on Wednesday it has teamed up AppliedEV to develop a fully autonomous multi-purpose vehicle that could be suitable for a va...
Sep 07, 2021
