Organisers of a Facebook Inc advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support from a rapidly expanding list of major companies are now preparing to take the battle global to increase pressure on the social media company to remove hate speech. | Continue reading
Tiny Kenyan start-up Gumzo is a minnow on the booming teleconferencing scene but its creators hope the platform will help companies spend more of their cash in Africa rather than on foreign technology companies. | Continue reading
In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of breath. | Continue reading
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a cross-government commission would examine racism and the disparities experienced by minority ethnic groups in education, health and the criminal justice system following Black Lives Matter protests. | Continue reading
U.S. video streaming company Netflix is in talks with Viacom18, part of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries' media unit Network18, about a multi-year partnership to source content, three sources told Reuters, in a move that would expand a relationship between the two side … | Continue reading
Israel's NSO Group showcased a new anti-drone defence on Monday, giving the public a rare look at its technology as it seeks to counter allegations that another of its products has aided privacy breaches and political surveillance. | Continue reading
Google is adding features on its Maps service to alert users about COVID-19-related travel restrictions to help them plan their trips better, the Alphabet Inc unit said on Monday. | Continue reading
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, released last year after a 14-year prison term stemming from the energy firm's collapse, is raising funds to launch a digital marketplace catering to professional oil and gas investors, according to four people familiar with the matter. | Continue reading
Ride-hailing service Bolt said on Tuesday it has raised 100 million euros ($109 million) from London-based investment firm Naya Capital Management in a deal valuing the European rival of Uber at 1.7 billion euros. | Continue reading
Fragmentary bone fossils and a molar found in Bulgaria dated to roughly 45,000 years ago show that Homo sapiens populations swept into Europe - until then a bastion for the Neanderthals - earlier than previously known, scientists said on Monday. | Continue reading
California and three of its largest cities on Tuesday sued Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc, accusing them of classifying their drivers improperly as independent contractors instead of employees, evading workplace protections and withholding worker benefits. | Continue reading
The Trump administration is drafting a legal blueprint for mining on the moon under a new U.S.-sponsored international agreement called the Artemis Accords, people familiar with the proposed pact told Reuters. | Continue reading
The coronavirus outbreak will usher in profound change akin to the societal transformation that followed the two World Wars because of mounting anger about inequality, said the head of Eton, Britain's most elite fee-paying school. | Continue reading
Britain now has Europe's second highest official COVID-19 death toll with more than 26,000, according to figures published on Wednesday that raised questions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's response to the outbreak. | Continue reading
U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that ultraviolet light could be inserted into coronavirus patients was widely panned on Friday, but a California company thinks it's a perfect solution for decontaminating airplanes. | Continue reading
Sweden warned on Friday it would shut restaurants and bars in the capital that did not comply with guidelines aimed at preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus, amid signs Stockholm residents were beginning to ignore the rules. | Continue reading
Activist investor ValueAct Capital Partners LP has built a stake of over $1.1 billion (895 million pounds) in Nintendo , according to a letter seen by Reuters, a bet that digital software distribution and the development of new entertainment products will fuel growth at the Japan … | Continue reading
The true extent of the death toll in England and Wales from COVID-19 was 41% higher than the daily figures from the government indicated by April 10, according to data on Tuesday that includes deaths in the community. | Continue reading
Bobby Moore was named Britain's sports personality of the year in 1966 after leading England to triumph in the soccer World Cup, and now another Captain Moore has become a surprise contender to follow in his footsteps -- at the age of 99. | Continue reading
Tom Moore, a 99-year-old British war veteran, completed 100 laps of his garden on Thursday, raising more than 12 million pounds for the health service in an endeavour that has spread joy across the country amid the coronavirus gloom. | Continue reading
One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt. | Continue reading
A smartphone tracking app for new airport arrivals. A "smart city" database of thousands of people infected by the new coronavirus and their contacts. Electronic bracelets that track people breaking quarantine laws. | Continue reading
Democratic Republic of Congo recorded a second Ebola death in days following more than seven weeks without a new case, the World Health Organization said on Sunday. | Continue reading
The number of coronavirus cases detected in the United States rose past half a million over the Easter weekend with more than 18,600 deaths, as President Donald Trump said the decision on when it was safe to reopen the country would be the biggest he had ever had to make. | Continue reading
SoftBank Group Corp <9984.T> CEO Masayoshi Son said he has secured a monthly supply of 300 million face masks for Japan from May after reaching a deal with Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD Co Ltd <002594.SZ>, which has also started producing masks. | Continue reading
The British government defended its early handling of the coronavirus outbreak after a Reuters investigation found its scientific advisers were too slow to communicate their growing concerns about the outbreak to the public and ministers. | Continue reading
Zoom Video Communications Inc was slapped with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on Tuesday, accusing the video-conferencing app of overstating its privacy standards and failing to disclose that its service was not end-to-end encrypted. | Continue reading
Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home. | Continue reading
Denmark will reopen day cares and schools for children in first to fifth grade starting April 15, if the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths remain stable, the country's prime minister said on Monday. | Continue reading
French companies benefiting from financial support from the government to help them through the coronavirus crisis must not buy back their shares, France's finance minister said on Monday. | Continue reading
A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories for validation, which could be a game-changer in the fight against the pandemic. | Continue reading
Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy f... | Continue reading
Amazon.com will stop shipping non-essential products to consumers in Italy and F... | Continue reading
Four Democratic U.S. senators on Friday expressed concern in a letter to Amazon.... | Continue reading
Alphabet Inc's YouTube said on Friday it will reduce its streaming quality ... | Continue reading
Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a c... | Continue reading
President Hassan Rouhani said Iran's fight against the coronavirus was bein... | Continue reading
Europe's privacy rulebook does not create obstacles to taking action to cur... | Continue reading
Hyundai's <005380.KS> hydrogen-powered 18-tonne trucks are set to hit the r... | Continue reading
The World Health Organization no longer uses the term pandemic, but the COVID-19... | Continue reading
A German court on Sunday ordered Tesla Inc to stop clearing forest land near the... | Continue reading
Britain said it would make social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and ... | Continue reading
When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police ... | Continue reading
The shift to electric vehicles could cost 410,000 jobs in Germany by 2030, daily... | Continue reading
The cryptocurrency arm of Fidelity Investments, one of the world's largest ... | Continue reading
Amazon.com Inc will ask a judge to temporarily block Microsoft Corp from working... | Continue reading
Soaring demand for SUVs drove record sales for premium carmakers including BMW a... | Continue reading