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September 10, 2021 By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday issued a ruling in “Fortnite” creator Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc’s App Store, striking down some of Apple’s restrictions on how developers can collect payments in apps. The ruling is similar to a move that Apple made to settle an antitrust […]

September 10, 2021 By Nandita Bose and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans and libertarians are vowing to fight U.S. President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandate covering big companies, healthcare workers and federal employees, announced as the Delta strain of the coronavirus rapidly spreads through the country. The mandate https://reut.rs/3niM2M3, which the White House says […]

September 10, 2021 RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – A few hundred Palestinians held protests in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in support of six militants who broke out of a maximum security Israeli jail this week in an escape that has boosted Palestinian spirits and alarmed Israelis. Israeli forces have mounted a search in […]

September 10, 2021 ESTEPONA, Spain (Reuters) – Unusually strong winds and high late-summer temperatures hindered efforts on Friday to tame a wildfire near a popular resort in southern Spain that has forced over 1,000 people out of their homes and killed an emergency worker. Since erupting on Wednesday evening, the blaze has burned through around […]

September 10, 2021 By Anton Zverev and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin’s crackdown on websites linked to jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny and on technology used to evade online bans are causing major internet outages for the Russian public, say web monitors, online gaming firms and government critics. The disruption shows how new […]

September 10, 2021 By Sruthi Shankar and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) -European stocks closed lower on Friday, down more than 1% this week as investors weighed risks from tighter monetary policies after the European Central Bank signalled a slowdown of pandemic-era bond purchases. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.3% and declined for four of five […]

September 10, 2021 By Kenneth Li (Reuters) – Brian Robbins, head of ViacomCBS Inc’s children’s network Nickelodeon, will take over as the chairman and chief executive of the media company’s Paramount movie studio, according to a source familiar with the matter. Robbins will succeed Jim Gianopulos, Paramount Pictures’ current CEO. The move, first reported by […]

September 10, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan on Friday over alleged interference by the United States in an election, Russian agencies TASS and RIA reported, quoting a diplomatic source. Russian news agencies reported earlier that Sullivan had been summoned over an issue with accreditations for Russian journalists working in the […]

September 10, 2021 BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s financial meltdown has swiftly worsened in the last month, with much of the country crippled by fuel shortages that have ignited country-wide security incidents. Exacerbated by political deadlock, Lebanon’s rapid deterioration has prompted Western concern https://ift.tt/3llL7YL. Some senior Lebanese officials have sounded the alarm https://ift.tt/3zAfhgI about a country […]

September 10, 2021 HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwean magistrate on Friday ruled that Robert Mugabe’s remains should be exhumed and reburied at the national heroes’ shrine in the capital city, rekindling a row over the late former leader’s resting place. In May, a traditional chief from Mugabe’s rural Zvimba area ordered that his remains be […]

Just about every company is sitting on vast amounts of data, which they can use to their advantage if they can just learn how to harness it. Data is actually the fuel for machine learning models, and with the proper tools, businesses can learn to process this data and build models to help them compete […]

A judge this morning issued a ruling in California’s Epic v. Apple case, siding with the Fortnite maker on the topic of third-party payments. Effectively, the judge has ruled that Apple cannot prohibit developers from adding links for alternative payments beyond Apple’s App Store-based monetization. The mobile giant’s control over fees on iOS has long […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Loretta Mester said on Friday that she would still like the central bank to begin tapering asset purchases this year, joining the chorus of policymakers making it clear that their plans to begin scaling back support were not derailed by weaker jobs growth in August. […]

September 10, 2021 By Nick Carey MUNICH (Reuters) – As carmakers gathered in Munich on Monday to launch almost exclusively zero- or low-emission vehicles, an ongoing semiconductor shortage cast a long shadow over the first major car show since before the pandemic began. Forced to shut down plants last year, carmakers now face increasing competition […]

September 10, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will create specialised groups within the Interior Ministry and the police force to prevent hate crimes and support victims, the government said on Friday, amid mounting public pressure to curb an increase in such attacks. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez chaired an urgent meeting of ministers, community leaders and […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – After 20 years of fighting, the Taliban have tried to present a conciliatory face to the world. Afghanistan’s new rulers have a problem closer to home: winning the hearts and minds of their own people, starting in the capital. Since the group entered Kabul on Aug. 15, armed members have […]

September 10, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and ex-Soviet ally Belarus on Friday launched the active “hot phase” of a three-month-long military exercise involving 200,000 troops, which has alarmed Ukraine and some NATO nations. The live fire drills are the culmination of the “Zapad-2021” war games, and will run until next Thursday on Russia’s and Belarus’s […]

September 10, 2021 BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian officials cut communication lines in multiple parts of Katsina state as a crackdown on banditry in the northwest of the country spreads. Katsina state security adviser Ibrahim Ahmed told Reuters by phone that the government directed a communications blackout in 13 local government areas to hinder criminality […]

Crowberry Capital, operating in Reykjavik and Copenhagen, has launched Crowberry II: a $90 million seed and early-stage fund aimed at startups in the Nordic region. A second close – bringing in an additional $40 million – is planned for July 2022. The EIF (European Investment Fund) is the lead LP on the fund, after putting […]

WhatsApp said on Friday it will give its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud, taking a significant step to put a lid on one of the tricky ways private communication between individuals on the app can be compromised. The Facebook-owned service has end-to-end encrypted chats between users for […]