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Walmart investors eye push into advertising, healthcare following pandemic boom
By Aishwarya Venugopal and Melissa Fares (Reuters) - Walmart Inc's investors and analysts are likely to look past the retail giant's slowest same-store sales growth since the start of the coronavirus ...
Syndicated Content Feb 17, 2021
Israel and Kosovo establish diplomatic relations in virtual ceremony
By Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and Kosovo established diplomatic relations on Monday, via online links due to the coronavirus crisis, under a U.S.-brokered deal that includes a pledge by t...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
Total crypto fund inflows top $5 billion this year, up more than 600% - report
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Total investor inflows into cryptocurrency funds and products hit $5.6 billion so far this year, up more than 600% from 2019, according to the latest d...
Syndicated Content Dec 21, 2020
Watchdog highlights shortcomings in EU rules to curb tech companies
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A watchdog has criticised the EU's new rules that aim to curb the power of Alphabet unit Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, potentially providing scope for compan...
Syndicated Content Dec 21, 2020
Turkish parliament passes associations oversight law that critics say will stifle NGOs
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament passed a law on Sunday that would ramp up oversight of foundations and associations and, according to rights groups including Amnesty International, risks limiti...
Syndicated Content Dec 27, 2020
Exclusive: SoFi nears deal to go public with SPAC backed by venture capital investor Palihapitiya -sources
By Joshua Franklin, Anirban Sen and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Online lending startup Social Finance Inc (SoFi) is nearing a deal to go public through a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp...
Syndicated Content Jan 07, 2021
Intensifying Islamist insurgency in Mozambique drives humanitarian crisis
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than half-a-million people have fled their homes due to an Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique, and the violence and humanitarian crisis will worsen without intern...
Syndicated Content Jan 20, 2021
Hong Kong leader gets China's Sinovac vaccine to bolster public confidence
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam received China's Sinovac vaccine on Monday together with top officials at a live televised event to bolster public confidence ahead of the vaccine's...
Syndicated Content Feb 22, 2021
Problems plagued U.S. CO2 capture project before shutdown: DOE document
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - A $1 billion project to harness carbon dioxide emissions from a Texas coal plant suffered chronic mechanical problems and routinely missed its targets before it was shut d...
Syndicated Content Aug 06, 2020
Trapped alone in a British quarantine hotel for a 69th birthday
By Guy Faulconbridge and Hannah McKay LONDON (Reuters) - Zari Tadayon, who flew into Britain on Monday from Dubai, will have to spend her 69th birthday alone in a Radisson Blu hotel room in COVID-19 q...
Syndicated Content Feb 15, 2021
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