October 8, 2021 By Tina Bellon and Hyunjoo Jin AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Tesla Inc’s decision to move its headquarters to Austin, Texas, from Palo Alto, California, accelerates the shift of electric vehicle industry jobs to Southern and Western U.S. states that offer lower taxes, lighter regulation and less unionization than the coastal Blue states where […]
McConnell under fire for debt-ceiling as Democrats claim victory
October 8, 2021 By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Mitch McConnell, long known as the Republican mastermind in Congress, lost support among some members of his own party this week after offering Democrats a temporary deal to avert a cataclysmic U.S. credit default and safeguard the Senate’s endangered super-majority rule. The 79-year-old Kentucky Republican, […]
Canadian province of Ontario to further ease pandemic restrictions
October 8, 2021 By Moira Warburton (Reuters) – Ontario is lifting capacity limits on concert venues, theaters and spectator facilities at sports games as of Saturday at midnight, the government of Canada’s most populous province said on Friday, while continuing to require proof of vaccination and masks. Limited numbers of outbreaks in those settings have […]
Austrian government teeters as Greens seek options to oust PM Kurz
October 8, 2021 By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s governing coalition was on the brink of collapse on Friday as its junior party said it wanted to oust Chancellor Sebastian Kurz now that he has been placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption offences. Kurz denies wrongdoing and says he is willing to keep governing […]
Chile prosecutors to investigate President Pinera following Pandora papers leak
October 8, 2021 SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s public prosecutor said on Friday it would open an investigation into the sale of a mining project involving the family of President Sebastian Pinera after new details emerged about the transaction in the Pandora papers leak. Marta Herrera, head of the office’s anti-corruption unit, said the agency would […]
France and Germany say Poland must abide by EU rules
October 8, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Poland has a legal and moral obligation as a member of the European Union to abide by the bloc’s rules completely and unconditionally, the foreign ministers of France and Germany said in a joint statement issued on Friday. Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal on Thursday ruled that parts of EU law […]
Migrants Not Responsible for Latest COVID-19 Surge
Infectious disease experts say low vaccination rates, resistance to protective measures such as wearing a mask and the highly transmissible delta variant are driving the current surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. But with numerous Republicans criticizing the Biden administration for the rise of immigrants, some of whom are COVID-19-positive, many Americans — particularly […]
B2B marketing tactics that can help move the needle
Ryan Narod Contributor Share on Twitter Ryan Narod leads marketing at Mutiny, a no-code AI platform that helps marketers convert their top-of-funnel demand into revenue, without engineers. Your target customers may discover your website through ads, search, word of mouth or offline channels like direct mail or events, but when they arrive, 99% of them […]
Wall St Week Ahead: Energy price spike adds market risk as earnings arrive
October 8, 2021 By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock market investors are gauging whether more volatility is ahead because of surging global energy prices, which could drive up inflation, erode profit margins and pressure consumer spending. Stocks rebounded this week after Monday’s losses left the S&P 500 down 5.2% from its record […]
Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, Health Ministry says
October 8, 2021 RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil has registered more than 600,000 deaths due to COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Friday, making it the second country in the world to pass that milestone after the United States. Brazil registered 18,172 new cases of coronavirus and 615 additional deaths on Friday, according to […]
Studies say Uber and Lyft offload soft costs on drivers and communities
As the average cost of a ride on Uber, Lyft, and other “rideshare” services has risen over the years, it’s become clear these companies were never entirely forthright about their business models. Now a pair of studies suggests even the investor-subsidized prices don’t tell the whole story, with costs being borne by drivers and communities. […]
Soccer-Andorra v England to go ahead despite fire at stadium
October 8, 2021 (Reuters) -England’s World Cup qualifier against Andorra on Saturday will go ahead as planned despite a fire that broke out at the Estadi Nacional on Friday, the Andorran Football Federation (FAF) has confirmed. Sky Sports earlier posted videos showing a television gantry at the side of the pitch between the two sets […]
Mediobanca, top investor Del Vecchio reach truce on bylaws changes
October 8, 2021 By Gianluca Semeraro and Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) – Mediobanca on Friday endorsed a request by its top shareholder Leonardo Del Vecchio to ditch a rule reserving up to three board seats to managers of the Italian merchant bank. Welcoming the decision “with deep satisfaction,” Del Vecchio in turn withdrew a second […]
Two Indian drugmakers to end trials of generic Merck pill for moderate COVID-19
October 8, 2021 By Shivani Singh, Anuron Kumar Mitra and Neha Arora BENGALURU (Reuters) -Two Indian drugmakers have requested permission to end late-stage trials of their generic versions of Merck & Co’s promising experimental oral antiviral drug molnupiravir to treat moderate COVID-19, a week after Merck said its own trial had succeeded for mild-to-moderate patients. […]
White House weighs broader oversight of cryptocurrency market
October 8, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House is considering a wide ranging oversight of the cryptocurrency market to combat the growing threat of ransomware and other cyber crime, a spokeswoman said on Friday. “The NSC and NEC are coordinating across the interagency to look at ways we can ensure that cryptocurrency and other […]
White House blocks Trump attempt to withhold documents related to Jan 6 attack
October 8, 2021 By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol when he was U.S. president. Press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden had authorized the National Archives, a government agency that […]
Suicide bomber kills scores in Afghan mosque attack
October 8, 2021 KABUL (Reuters) -A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing scores of worshippers in the country’s third attack this week on a religious institution. Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack that state-run Bakhtar news agency said had killed 46 people and wounded 143. Two health […]
U.S., Mexico bid to reset ties during Blinken visit, forge new security accord
October 8, 2021 By Simon Lewis MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The United States and Mexico on Friday discussed a new joint security plan to help fight drug cartels as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Mexico’s president on a visit aimed to patching up frayed ties. The Biden administration is increasingly reliant on its […]
TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans
No one’s going to tell you when your startup has reached product-market fit — there are no flashing lights, no siren, no balloons falling from the ceiling. “Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed […]
Four stand-out points in the September U.S. jobs report
October 8, 2021 By Dan Burns (Reuters) – For a second straight month, U.S. job growth proved to be bitterly disappointing in September https://ift.tt/3iIPVqz, coming in more than 300,000 jobs short of what many economists had penciled in. That’s after August’s report initially came in almost half a million jobs below economists’ consensus estimate. But […]
