Author Archives: Syndicated Content
India's ShareChat raises $40 million from investors including Twitter, Lightspeed
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian content-sharing platform ShareChat has raised $40 million from investors including Twitter Inc and Lightspeed Ventures as it seeks to boost usage of its ne...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
SoftBank offers $19 COVID-19 tests to companies, governments
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said on Thursday it would offer COVID-19 tests to corporations and local governments for 2,000 yen ($19) per person as Chief Executive Masayoshi Son steps up the ...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
Volvo Cars CEO says demand holding up despite COVID spike
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars expects to hit its forecast of roughly flat sales year-on-year in the second half of 2020 even as a recent a surge in cases across Europe makes the ou...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
United to provide COVID-19 tests to customers on San Francisco-Hawaii flights
(Reuters) - United Airlines said on Thursday customers traveling from San Francisco to Hawaii would have the option to take a rapid COVID-19 test at the airport or a self-collected, mail-in test ahead...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
Cycling: Devastated Australian Spratt to miss Imola road race
(Reuters) - Australian cyclist Amanda Spratt has been ruled out of this week's UCI Road World Championships in Imola after failing to recover from injuries sustained in the Giro Rosa. Spratt, who clai...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
Jailed Belarusian opposition leader tells protesters not to give up: news portal
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Detained Belarusian opposition politician Maria Kolesnikova has urged protesters against long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko not to give up and mocked the security forces who arre...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
EU launches investigation into Chinese optical fibre cable imports
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission launched an investigation on Thursday into imports of optical fibre cable from China, which EU manufacturers believe are being sold in Europe at artificial...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
Apple critics form coalition to challenge App Store fees
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of Apple Inc's critics - including Spotify Technoloy SA, Match Group Inc and "Fortnite" creator Epic Games - have joined a nonprofit group that plan...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
Hollywood superhero coming to Wrexham? Why not, say fans
LONDON (Reuters) - Even for a Hollywood script the idea of a couple of household name American actors investing in a fifth-tier British soccer club for no apparent reason sounds a little far-fetched. ...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
Kenya's WTO candidate says she will focus on climate change if selected
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's candidate to become the next head of the World Trade Organisation pledged on Thursday to integrate climate change issues into the WTO agenda if selected. A...
Thomson Reuters Sep 24, 2020
