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“The pandemic made it visible that there was a missing piece in the customer journey: video chat,” says Fernando Moya, CEO of early-stage Chilean startup Ocular Solution. According to Moya, COVID-19 made it obvious that live chat and chatbots were not enough, as people were still hoping to interact face-to-face with customer agents – just […]

September 23, 2021 (Reuters) – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got a bird’s-eye view of the New York skyline as they kicked off their trip to the city with a visit to the observatory at One World Trade Center on Thursday. The royal couple is in town to attend Saturday’s Global Citizen Live event at […]

September 23, 2021 By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) – Three days after Canada’s federal election, the final tally of seats remained unclear on Thursday, with mail-in ballots still being counted in some regions and at least one electoral district facing an automatic recount. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were handed another minority mandate late on […]

September 23, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Carlos the Jackal, the leftist militant who carried out attacks across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s, had the life sentence he had been given for a deadly grenade attack on a Paris shop in 1974, confirmed on Thursday, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office said. Carlos was found guilty […]

September 23, 2021 By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – An Italian appeals court on Thursday overturned convictions in a major mafia trial, dismantling accusations that the state had colluded with Sicilian mobsters after a deadly wave of bombings in the 1990s. In a ruling read out in the Sicilian capital Palermo, Judge […]

September 23, 2021 By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A first in-person meeting of the leaders of the Quad group of countries – the United States, Japan, Australia and India – on Friday will yield progress in several areas including infrastructure, health and cyber, a senior U.S administration official told Reuters. The […]

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September 23, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Wall Street quantitative analyst was charged on Thursday with insider trading for making nearly 2,900 trades after learning his employer would soon make the same trades for clients, known as front-running. The U.S. Department of Justice said Sergei Polevikov, 48, of Port Washington, […]

September 23, 2021 By Jessica Resnick-Ault NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Thursday, supported by growing fuel demand and a draw in U.S. crude inventories as production remained hampered in the Gulf of Mexico after two hurricanes. Supply concerns had funds taking longer positions, analysts said. Brent crude was up 90 cents, or 1.8%, […]

September 23, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House cheered progress on Congress’s pending multi-trillion dollar spending bill Thursday, after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced an agreement between House and Senate Democrats on how to pay for the bill. There is a “menu of options” to generate revenue for the spending bill, White House […]

September 23, 2021 The Buffalo Sabres stripped Jack Eichel of his captaincy after he failed a physical following his arrival to camp on Wednesday. Eichel, 24, was named captain in 2018 but has been at odds with the team over treatment for a herniated disk in his neck suffered in March. Following a 12-week period […]

September 23, 2021 (Reuters) – Valtteri Bottas said he would ‘take one for the team’ if Mercedes asked him to let title contender Lewis Hamilton overtake in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix. Bottas won in Sochi last year and has a strong record in Russia, taking his first Formula One victory at the circuit in 2017. […]

September 23, 2021 (Reuters) – The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee on Wednesday said all U.S. athletes hoping to compete at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. “Effective Nov. 1, 2021, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee will require all USOPC staff, athletes and those utilizing USOPC facilities – […]

September 23, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Ukrainian challenger Oleksandr Usyk on Thursday dismissed concerns that he did not possess the size and strength to take out world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, saying that the “power is in your spirit”. The Briton will put his IBF, WBA and WBO belts on the line on Saturday against […]

September 23, 2021 By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – Surging natural gas prices across Europe could hinder the economic recovery in Spain, where small businesses crucial to local employment are more exposed than elsewhere on the continent to steep rises in power bills. Energy bills have more than doubled in Spain and other European countries […]

September 23, 2021 By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The EU aims to have a common charging port for mobile phones, tablets and headphones under a European Commission proposal presented on Thursday in a world first, with the move impacting iPhone maker Apple more than its rivals. The move has been more than 10 years […]

September 23, 2021 By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tech firm Honeywell International Inc and consulting and engineering company Wood are set to launch a technology to help companies reduce carbon intensity when making sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the partners said on Thursday. The Biden administration is setting targets to help boost SAF production to […]

September 23, 2021 By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Abhijith Ganapavaram (Reuters) -General Electric Co on Thursday announced a $1.45 billion cash deal to acquire ultrasound company BK Medical to bolster its medical imaging business, signaling a shift away from the company’s exclusive focus on repairing its balance sheet. This is the biggest acquisition under Chief […]

September 23, 2021 By Anshuman Daga, Clare Jim and Tom Westbrook HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Some holders of China Evergrande Group’s dollar bonds have given up hope of getting a coupon payment by a key Thursday deadline and expect the property developer to provide more information in the coming month, a source familiar with the […]

When founder Somdip Dey was a computer science masters student at the University of Manchester, his parents got in a terrible car accident. He sent all of his money back to his parents in India to help with their medical bills, but then he faced a problem familiar to too many: If he wasn’t going […]