Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Online merchants linked to QAnon down, but not out, following platform bans
By Jeffrey Dastin, Sheila Dang and Anna Irrera (Reuters) - Since last year, entrepreneur Dustin Krieger has faced bans by an expanding list of big tech companies: four blocked PayPal accounts, half a ...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
U.S. corporate buybacks are on the rise, lifting investor hopes
By Caroline Valetkevitch and Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. corporate share buyback levels are slowly increasing after last year's pandemic-driven drop-off in spending, and investors are eager...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
Former Google executive to run Italy’s TIM new cloud unit
MILAN (Reuters) - Former Google executive Carlo d'Asaro Biondo has been appointed as Chief executive officer of Telecom Italia's (TIM) newly-created cloud unit Noovle, Italy's biggest phone group said...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
IKEA lowers climate footprint helped by pandemic and energy-efficient light bulbs
By Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Furniture giant IKEA said it is on track to cut its emissions further after an 11% reduction in its climate footprint in the 12 months to the end of August, par...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
Merck ends COVID vaccine program, cites inferior immune responses
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Drugmaker Merck & Co on Monday said it will end development of its two COVID-19 vaccines, and will focus pandemic research on treatments, with initial efficacy data on an ...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
Investor payouts and job cuts jar with U.S. companies’ social pledge
By Jessica DiNapoli, Ross Kerber and Noel Randewich (Reuters) - When Randall Stephenson joined 180 of his peers leading many of the richest U.S. companies in signing the Business Roundtable pledge on ...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
Germany expects EU approval for AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Friday
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to approve the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Friday, a spokesman of German's health ministry sai...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
Alphabet’s Verily bets on long-term payoff from virus-testing deals
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - For Alphabet Inc's Verily, a healthcare venture that is one the tech giant's most prominent "other bets," the coronavirus pandemic offered an immediate busin...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
Anger and grief as United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll nears 100,000
By Andrew MacAskill and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - As the United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll approaches 100,000, grief-stricken relatives of the dead expressed anger at Prime Minister Boris John...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021
Fed set to look beyond possible post-pandemic inflation shock
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Between the closed theaters and restaurants, the prices slashed by airlines and half-empty hotels, and the government benefits paid or in the pipeline, Ameri...
Syndicated Content Jan 25, 2021





