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Facebook banning crytocurrency ads

Facebook said it will ban ads promoting financial products and services tied to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings.

Written by Reuters31 Jan. 18 08:53

Amazon unveils Seattle rainforest

Amazon.com on Monday opened a rainforest-like office space in Seattle that it hopes will spark new ideas for employees.

Written by Reuters30 Jan. 18 09:54

British billionaire wants to make electric cars in Australia

British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta is set to bid for industrial assets at General Motors Co's former Holden manufacturing site in South Australia, according to the state's treasurer, aiming to use the equipment to build electric vehicles.

Written by Reuters24 Jan. 18 11:01

Apple takes on Google and Amazon with HomePod speaker

​After missing the critical holiday shopping season, Apple has jumped into the voice speaker wars with the HomePod smart speaker, a device that will use its Siri voice assistant and compete against offerings from Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google.

Written by Reuters24 Jan. 18 10:03

Elon Musk could make $55.8 billion in the next decade

Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk could earn as much as US$55.8 billion in Tesla stock and own more than a quarter of the electric car company in the next decade if he hits all targets of a bold new pay plan.

Written by Reuters24 Jan. 18 09:56

Netflix hits US$100 billion market cap

​Netflix snagged 8.33 million new streaming customers in the final quarter of last year - 2 million more than Wall Street expected - as the pioneering online video service kept pouring money into programming in a race to dominate internet television around the world.

Written by Reuters23 Jan. 18 09:15

Facebook to open three digital training hubs across Europe

​Facebook will open three new centers in Europe to train people in digital skills and committed to training one million people over the next two years, part of the social media giant's drive to show its contribution to the bloc.

Written by Reuters22 Jan. 18 11:58

Amazon.com opens first checkout-free grocery store in the US

Amazon.com opened its checkout-free grocery store in the US today after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail.​

Written by Reuters22 Jan. 18 11:43

Security agency turns smartphones into selfie spycams

Lebanon's intelligence service may have turned the smartphones of thousands of targeted individuals into cyber-spying machines in one of the first known examples of large-scale state hacking of phones rather than computers, researchers say.

Written by Reuters19 Jan. 18 09:16
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