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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House Office of Management and Budget has told the U.S. Congress it will now meet a two-year deadline to ban federal contracts with companies that do business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, part of a defense law passed last year, according to a letter seen...

MANNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - Every half an hour, 50 vans sweep into Amazon’s distribution center in Mannheim, Germany and sweep out again with up to 200 parcels and a precise delivery plan in each.The tightly choreographed morning operation is designed to maximize speed and minimize costs, preconditions for the success...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hollywood has a new suitor in Silicon Valley.Airbnb Inc, the high-flying startup for booking home rentals around the world, has ambitions to develop a slate of original shows to whet customers’ appetite for travel, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.The strategy, previously unreported, is...

(Reuters) - Snapchat parent Snap Inc on Thursday named McDonald’s marketing head Kenny Mitchell as its first chief marketing officer, as the company seeks to attract new users to its platform.Prior to his role at McDonald’s, Mitchell served as head of consumer engagement at Gatorade.Mitchell, who will lead all consumer...

LONDON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The armed wing of Hamas is using increasingly complex methods of raising funds via bitcoin, researchers say, highlighting the difficulties regulators face in tracking cryptocurrency financing of outfits designated by some as terrorist groups.The Gaza-based Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, which is proscribed by the United States and...

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc will update its battery software after two recent fires involving its Model S electric vehicles (EV) in Shanghai and Hong Kong, the U.S. automaker said on Thursday, adding that investigations into the incidents are ongoing.“As we continue our investigation of the root cause, out of an...

(Reuters) - Global tech firms, including chip suppliers, are cutting ties with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd after the U.S. government put the world’s largest telecom equipment maker on a trade blacklist citing national security concerns.The United States has effectively banned its companies from doing business with Huawei, exacerbating an...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden’s AB Volvo is joining forces with Nvidia Corp to develop artificial intelligence used in self-driving trucks, in a boost for the U.S. chipmaker that was dropped by Tesla Inc last year.The agreement announced on Tuesday by Nvidia and Volvo, the world’s second-biggest truckmaker after Daimler AG,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has dropped the standard-range variants of its Model X and Model S from its product lineup and adjusted prices across its range, in a sales push that comes days after the U.S. electric vehicle maker reported record deliveries.To simplify its offerings, the automaker on...

AARHUS, Denmark (Reuters) - Far from the sprawling financial hubs of London or Frankfurt, high-tech traders in the Danish university city of Aarhus are driving rapid change in European power markets, easing the shift to renewables with technology that also carries some risks.The red-brick buildings, pavement cafes and streets full...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Thursday held off a plan to drop Japan from the so-called “white list” of countries with fast-track export status, two officials at South Korea’s trade ministry said.South Korean ministers were originally scheduled to decide on the plan at a meeting on Thursday, but they...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) warned on Wednesday that Japanese curbs on the export of chip-making materials was blurring its outlook and said it would delay a plan to return money to shareholders due to “significant new challenges.”The South Korean tech giant also posted a 56% plunge in June-quarter...

(Reuters) - The four major U.S. television networks on Wednesday sued a non-profit group backed by AT&T Inc that streams TV channels over the internet for free without permission.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. district court in New York by CBS Corp, Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal Media, Fox Corporation’s Fox Television...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov on Monday called a draft law on limiting foreign ownership in major Russian information technology companies to 20% “destructive”.“The competitiveness of the Russian economy is largely determined by the competitiveness of our companies,” Akimov said in a statement. “And this draft...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - China’s embassy in Canada said on Thursday that bilateral ties were suffering “gross difficulties,” and demanded Ottawa free Huawei Technologies Co Ltd Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou.Relations have been icy since Meng was detained in Vancouver last December on a U.S. warrant. China has since charged two...

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Surprised and upset by the U.S. blacklisting of Chinese companies, China has lowered expectations for significant progress from this week’s trade talks with the United States, Chinese government officials told Reuters, even as President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed fresh optimism.While Beijing theoretically wants to end the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department’s antitrust division chief, Makan Delrahim, said Tuesday that its probes of “market-leading online platforms” such as Alphabet’s Google were a “priority” that could result in either “law enforcement or policy options as solutions.”Delrahim and Joe Simons, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, were witnesses...

(Reuters) - Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal will name its upcoming streaming service “Peacock,” offering a broad slate of original content, including “Dr Death” starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Alec Baldwin, the company said on Tuesday.Peacock, which will also offer classic sitcoms like “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation”, is scheduled...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China mobile payment giants Alipay and WeChat Pay said on Wednesday payments can now be made with foreign cards.China has long been dogged by allegations of protectionism, a practice that has floored attempts by foreign payment firms to access what will be the largest bank card market...

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk indicated in a tweet on Sunday that the electric carmaker received 200,000 orders for its electric pickup truck within three days of its launch.Musk, who has been regularly tweeting about the Cybertruck’s features since its launch late Thursday, has...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German prosecutors have accused Volkswagen’s CEO of holding back market-moving information on rigged emissions tests four years ago, raising the prospect of fresh upheaval at the carmaker just as it tries to reinvent itself as a champion of clean driving.Prosecutors in the city of Braunschweig said on...