Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Iliad wins EU antitrust okay for $4 billion Polish telecoms deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French telecoms operator Iliad on Tuesday won EU antitrust clearance for its 3.5-billion-euro ($4.14 billion)acquisition of Polish mobile group Play as it stepped up its overseas ...
Oct 27, 2020
NorthStar and Thales Alenia Space begin work on satellites to combat space collisions
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada's NorthStar Earth & Space and Thales Alenia Space said on Tuesday they will begin work on a commercial satellite system to combat the threat of collisions in space. NorthSt...
Oct 27, 2020
Spared early on, 'Trump country' now leads in coronavirus cases, deaths
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) - In the early days of what became a historic public health crisis, the novel coronavirus was, in the lexicon of U.S. politics, a "blue state" problem - centered in East ...
Oct 27, 2020
Germany's Scholz calls for targeted, temporary curbs to slow coronavirus spread
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that the jump in coronavirus infections over the past few days was "very worrying" and authorities had to quickly implement decis...
Oct 27, 2020
Chairman Plattner buys nearly $300 million in SAP stock
BERLIN (Reuters) - Hasso Plattner, chairman and co-founder of SAP, bought shares worth nearly $300 million in the German software company on Monday after a once-in-a-generation price slide triggered w...
Oct 27, 2020
The Rust Belt boom that wasn't: Heartland job growth lagged under Trump
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) - The voters of Monroe County, Michigan, may have expected an economic windfall when they flipped from supporting Democrat Barack Obama to help put Donald Trump in the Wh...
Oct 27, 2020
Explainer: Can Trump call in troops to quell Election Day unrest?
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he decides the Nov. 3 presidential election results are fraudulent and has proposed mobil...
Oct 27, 2020
Fame or blame? What lies ahead for 'the Squad', as they eye second terms in U.S. Congress
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They came to Washington to shake things up and in their first two years in the U.S. House of Representatives the four lawmakers popularly known as 'the Squad' a...
Oct 27, 2020
Consumer companies pitch discounts, bargain products as economic malaise looms
By Siddharth Cavale and Martinne Geller (Reuters) - Unilever, Procter & Gamble and other major consumer goods manufacturers are touting lower-priced brands, smaller packages and discounts to woo penny...
Oct 27, 2020
Malaysia reports 835 new coronavirus cases, two deaths
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's health ministry reported 835 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, raising the total to 28,640 infections. The Southeast Asian country also recorded two new deaths, tak...
Oct 27, 2020
