Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. fuel supplies tighten as energy pipeline outage enters fifth day
By Stephanie Kelly and Devika Krishna Kumar (Reuters) - Supplies of gasoline tightened further in parts of the United States on Tuesday as the shutdown of the nation's biggest fuel pipeline by hackers...
May 11, 2021
Israel mulls fine on Facebook for antitrust violation
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Competition Authority said on Tuesday it was considering imposing a fine of about 6 million shekels ($1.8 million) on Facebook for buying two Israeli companies without t...
May 11, 2021
SoftBank targeting IPO for payment app PayPay
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank wants to list payment app PayPay, the CEO of its wireless unit said on Tuesday, as he seeks to illustate growth potential at Japan's No.3 carrier. QR code paym...
May 11, 2021
Germany to support quantum computing with 2 billion euros
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will spend about 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) to support the development of its first quantum computer and related technologies in the next four years, the economy and sci...
May 11, 2021
Taiwan tightens restrictions after new domestic COVID cases
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's government on Tuesday tightened rules on public gatherings after reporting six new domestic COVID-19 cases with no clear source of infection, a rare rise on the island whic...
May 11, 2021
Former Italian PM Berlusconi admitted to hospital - source
MILAN (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to Milan's San Raffaele hospital overnight, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Berlusconi, 84, was last d...
May 11, 2021
Singapore warns on COVID-19 vaccine supplies as it expands programme
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore still expects to complete its COVID-19 inoculation programme by the end of the year, the health minister said on Tuesday, though the city-state is also looking to secur...
May 11, 2021
Poland's Supreme Court evacuated due to bomb threat - Twitter
WARSAW (Reuters) - The building of Poland's Supreme Court has been evacuated due to a bomb threat, the court said on Twitter on Tuesday, the day its Civil Chamber is due to issue highly anticipated gu...
May 11, 2021
"Do you want Tesla to accept Doge?" Musk asks on Twitter
(Reuters) - Elon Musk early on Tuesday asked his followers in a poll on Twitter whether Tesla Inc should accept payment in the form of dogecoin. (Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by ...
May 11, 2021
Smartphone shipments in China in April fall 33.9% - CAICT
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shipments of smartphones within China fell 33.9% year-on-year to 26.97 million handsets in April, the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT) reported on Tuesday. ...
May 11, 2021
