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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 […]

Twitter’s slate of new product announcements is not slowing down. The company today introduced a number of new initiatives aimed at better serving the conversations and community using its platform, including support for tipping with crypto, NFT authentication, and plans for other experiments designed to provide more context about a conversation to those just joining […]

Andrew Tarantola Contributor Share on Twitter Andrew Tarantola is a senior editor at Engadget. A host of features are being added to Google’s Android Auto experience, and the company’s Automotive OS will come to more cars including, for the first time, Honda vehicles from 2022 onwards. Google introduced its Android Auto app in 2015, enabling […]

Steve Dent Contributor Steve Dent is an associate editor at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Netflix is acquiring the rights to Roald Dahl’s books Rolls-Royce’s all-electric aircraft completes 15-minute maiden voyage Researchers have created a winged microchip around the size of a sand grain that may be the smallest flying device yet made, Vice […]

A lot has changed for Duolingo. The language learning company launched nearly a decade ago on the Disrupt stage with no monetization plans. Today, that scrappy app has matured into a well-known consumer brand and a business that makes a ton of money. This growth fueled the startup’s recent decision to go public, which is […]

September 23, 2021 (Reuters) -U.S. health insurer Cigna Corp on Thursday named company veteran Eric Palmer as president and chief executive officer of its Evernorth health services unit that primarily houses its pharmacy benefit management business. The appointment comes as the health services unit, which was rebranded last September to Evernorth, has shown resilient growth […]

September 23, 2021 By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday and chief executives of several U.S. companies, including Qualcomm and Blackstone, two sources said. At the White House meeting with Harris, Modi is expected to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, greater cooperation in technology, […]

September 23, 2021 By Siphiwe Sibeko JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Jubilant South African Airways (SAA) staff at the country’s biggest airport broke into song and dance on Thursday as the airline took to the skies for the first time in around a year. State-owned SAA’s longstanding financial woes were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and it […]

September 23, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The two top Democrats in the U.S. Congress announced a revenue deal on Thursday that they said would pay for President Joe Biden’s social spending agenda, marking a major step forward in their effort to enact sweeping legislation. “The White House, the House and the Senate have reached agreement on […]

Audio startup Syng has been building on quite a bit more hype than the average fresh hardware startup, largely because of the team behind it. Founder and CEO Chris Stringer was Jony Ive’s first hire at Apple and worked at the company for 21 years. In an interview, Stringer referred to the first time he […]

September 23, 2021 ROME (Reuters) – All roads lead to Rome, or at least so it seems for wild boar. Sightings of boars trotting along the streets have become so commonplace in some neighbourhoods of the Italian capital that the problem has spilt over into campaigning for Rome’s mayoral election. The animals have been increasingly […]

September 23, 2021 (Corrects Sept 22 article to add dropped word “not” in quote in paragraph 5) WINDHOEK (Reuters) – During a heated parliamentary debate, Namibian opposition lawmakers on Wednesday criticised a 1.1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) compensation offer from Germany for its 1904-1908 genocide in the southwest African country and called on the government […]

September 23, 2021 By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is poised to command wide support for a second term as head of the World Health Organisation, formally nominated by more than 12 European Union members and also backed by countries in other regions, diplomats said on Thursday. Tedros, a former health and […]

September 23, 2021 ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey’s ties with the United States were not healthy and that Washington needed to “sort out” issues over Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 defence systems, according to broadcaster Haberturk. Ties between the NATO allies struck a low point earlier this year […]

September 23, 2021 By Tom Kaeckenhoff DUISBURG, Germany (Reuters) -German Social Democrat (SPD) candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Thursday to help the steel industry convert to climate-friendly production if his party, clinging to a narrow lead in polls, wins Sunday’s federal election. Trying to shore up support in the industrial heartland of the […]