Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Apple to host developers event online again as COVID-19 cases surge
(Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday it would host its annual developers' conference in an online-only format for the second year in a row, from June 7 to June 11, as COVID-19 cases rise in the Unite...
Mar 30, 2021
U.S. announces more than $596 million in new humanitarian aid for Syria crisis: Blinken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will provide more than $596 million in new humanitarian aide to respond to the Syrian crisis, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. The assis...
Mar 30, 2021
U.S. gasoline demand exceeds 2020 levels for first time in 2021: OPIS
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline sales for 2021 have exceeded prior-year levels for the first time since last March, when officials first started to widely impose coronavirus lock...
Mar 30, 2021
Germany to recommend AstraZeneca shot only for over 60s: media
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's vaccination commission is recommending administering the AstraZeneca coronavirus shot only for men and women over 60 years old in Germany, Focus Online reported on Tuesday...
Mar 30, 2021
French airstrike in Mali killed 19 civilians, U.N. investigators find
BAMAKO (Reuters) - A French airstrike in central Mali on Jan. 3 killed 19 civilians and three armed men, according to excerpts from a United Nations investigation due to be released later on Tuesday, ...
Mar 30, 2021
Spotify buys Locker Room app's maker Betty Labs in live audio push
By Elizabeth Culliford NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spotify Inc said on Tuesday it has purchased Betty Labs, the company behind sports-focused social audio app Locker Room, to accelerate its move into live au...
Mar 30, 2021
More Swedes in intensive care as third COVID wave gathers pace
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The number of Swedes needing intensive care as a result of COVID infection increased 9% compared to last week as the country grapples with a third wave of the virus, health offic...
Mar 30, 2021
Microsoft targets 50,000 jobs with LinkedIn 're-skilling' effort
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday that it aims to place 50,000 people in jobs that require technology skills as part of a broader push being undertaken with its professional...
Mar 30, 2021
Pope, using Shakespeare, makes climate change appeal
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis adapted Shakespeare's famous Hamlet quote in an appeal to people not to remain blind to the destruction of climate change and the mass migratio...
Mar 30, 2021
Fed's Quarles says regulators to lay out money market fund reforms in July
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of financial regulators will lay out recommendations in July to improve the resilience of money market funds and minimize the chance they will need government support in...
Mar 30, 2021
