Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Disney to lay off about 28,000 parks employees due to coronavirus hit
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will lay off roughly 28,000 employees in its theme parks division, the company said on Tuesday, as its resorts struggle with limited attendance amid the coronavi...
Sep 29, 2020
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears safe, shows signs of working in older adults: study
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Results from an early safety study of Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine candidate in older adults showed that it produced virus-neutralizing antibodies at leve...
Sep 29, 2020
Credit rating agency Kroll settles U.S. SEC charges
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Kroll Bond Rating Agency will pay $2.01 million, mainly in fines, to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil charges that some of its practices were inadeq...
Sep 29, 2020
Facebook names Alex Schultz as marketing head
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is tapping Alex Schultz, a company veteran who runs product growth, analytics and internationalization at the social media giant, as its new chief marketing officer. Schultz, ...
Sep 29, 2020
U.S. DoJ's antitrust head sets sights on Wall Street data pricing - Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division, Makan Delrahim, is paying close attention to the data that securities exchanges sell to banks and investment companies, Bloomb...
Sep 29, 2020
Duchess of Sussex Meghan says her public remarks are 'not controversial'
(Reuters) - Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex said on Tuesday that her public remarks often were misinterpreted by critics and were "not controversial." The American-born Meghan has urged people to ...
Sep 29, 2020
CureVac to start global late-stage trial for COVID-19 vaccine in fourth quarter
(Reuters) - Germany's CureVac NV said on Tuesday it has started a mid-stage study testing its experimental coronavirus vaccine and plans to begin a much larger trial in the fourth quarter. (Reporting ...
Sep 29, 2020
North Korea tells U.N. it has COVID-19 'under safe, stable control'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - North Korea now has the coronavirus "under safe and stable control," North Korea's U.N. ambassador, Kim Song, told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. "Thanks to the f...
Sep 29, 2020
U.S. House intelligence panel subpoenas top Homeland official over whistleblower complaint
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to compel a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official to testify abo...
Sep 29, 2020
U.S. astronaut crew on SpaceX's Crew Dragon to cast ballots from space
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three NASA astronauts launching next month on SpaceX's first operational Crew Dragon mission plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election from the Interna...
Sep 29, 2020
