By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s digital chief has invited companies including Alphabet <GOOGL.O>, Apple <AAPL.O>, Amazon <AMZN.O> and Facebook <FB.O> to video talks next week...
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Retailers are eager to hire – if you’re a digital whizz
By Sonya Dowsett, Melissa Fares and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen MADRID/NEW YORK/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Are you a “user-experience” gun for hire? Well, your time has come. Even as retailers lay off hundreds of thousands of...
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Exclusive: Vietnam threatens to shut down Facebook over censorship requests – source
By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor more local political content on its platform, a senior official at the U.S. social...
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Amazon lays off staff at Prime Air drone project
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it had laid off dozens of staff working on the e-commerce giant’s delivery drone project as part of a reorganization of the team. The U.S. retailer has been working on a plan to...
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Huawei CFO had resources to flee Canada, border agent tells court in U.S. extradition case
By Sarah Berman VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A Canadian border official involved with the interrogation of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou ahead of her 2018 arrest told a court on Thursday she was a flight risk and had the...
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Airbus, Boeing expected to turn to hybrid engine technology for new planes-lessor
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Airbus SE <AIR.PA> and Boeing Co <BA.N> are expected to turn to hybrid electric technology when they develop the next generation of airplanes because of limits on improving current engines, the head...
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