Category Archives:
Blockchain startup TRM Labs raises $60 million in Tiger Global-led round
By Sohini Podder and Mehnaz Yasmin (Reuters) - TRM Labs said on Tuesday it had raised $60 million in fresh capital through a funding round led by investment giant Tiger Global, becoming the latest blo...
Dec 07, 2021
FTC settles with Vyera over Daraprim, Shkreli litigation to go on
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement agreement with Vyera Pharmaceuticals over allegations it sought to block generic versions of its drug Daraprim, they s...
Dec 07, 2021
Twitter acquires Slack-like company Quill to improve messaging tools
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it acquired Slack competitor Quill to help the social networking company improve its own messaging tools. The acquisition comes as Twitter recent...
Dec 07, 2021
Airbus delivers 58 jets, gets order boost in November
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus delivered 58 airplanes in November, leaving itself the task of speeding up monthly deliveries to 82 in December to reach an end-year target of 600, company data showed on Tues...
Dec 07, 2021
French economy set for fourth quarter growth slightly below 0.75% – central bank
PARIS (Reuters) - The French economy is set to grow a bit less than 0.75% in the final quarter of this year as firms grapple with an increasingly uncertain health situation, the central bank said on T...
Dec 07, 2021
Florida to feed starving manatees in rare conservation move
By Julio-Cesar Chavez (Reuters) - Starving manatees will soon be fed by hand in Florida, a rare wildfire intervention to save the marine mammals whose natural food is vanishing from the effects of pol...
Dec 07, 2021
U.S. Congress includes $300 million for Ukraine, addresses China in massive defense bill
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers included a range of efforts to push back against Russia and China in a massive annual defense bill released on Tuesday, including $300 million...
Dec 07, 2021
Twitter tests overhaul of process to flag harmful tweets
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will begin overhauling how users report harmful tweets in an effort to make it easier for people to describe what is wrong with the content they are seeing, the ...
Dec 07, 2021
Fauci says early evidence points to Omicron being more transmissible but less severe
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Preliminary evidence indicates that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus likely has a higher degree of transmissibility but is less severe...
Dec 07, 2021
Exclusive-Amazon offered France deal to have bill protecting bookshops pulled
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - Amazon proposed raising book delivery charges in France to around 2 euros from almost nothing if parliament withdrew a bill that would make it more difficult for ...
Dec 07, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
20 °F Sunny
