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Tyro Payments ends buyout discussions with Potentia after rejecting A$875 million bid
(Reuters) -Australia's Tyro Payments said on Monday it has ended deal discussions with suitor Potentia Capital, months after the payment terminals firm rejected the private equity group's A$875 millio...
May 21, 2023
Instagram down for more than 98,000 users – Downdetector
(Reuters) - Meta Platform Inc's Instagram is down for more than 98,000 users on Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports f...
May 21, 2023
Marketmind: China to hold rates steady, markets digest G7
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. The People's Bank of China is expected to keep key lending rates on hold on Monday, as traders in Asia diges...
May 21, 2023
Warner Bros Discovery chief booed at Boston University graduation, videos show
(Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery chief executive David Zaslav was booed by students after taking the stage at Boston University to accept his honorary degree and give the 2023 commencement speech, am...
May 21, 2023
‘Firebrand’ puts spotlight on Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife
CANNES (Reuters) - For Brazilian director Karim Ainouz the prospect of making a film about King Henry VIII's court was particularly exciting, partly because it focuses on Catherine Parr, the wife who ...
May 21, 2023
Law firms Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling plan merger
(Reuters) -London-based law firm Allen & Overy and New York's Shearman & Sterling plan to merge, they announced on Sunday, in a deal that would create one of the world's largest legal practices with c...
May 21, 2023
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes offshore Northern California region – EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude struck the offshore Northern California on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake, which stuck offshore Northe...
May 21, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence-produced Afghan documentary premieres at Cannes
CANNES (Reuters) - While the world watched Kabul fall and the Taliban surge back to power in 2021 following the withdrawal of U.S. troops, actor Jennifer Lawrence and producer Justine Ciarrocchi were ...
May 21, 2023
‘May December’ director: women pay higher price than men for breaking rules
By Mindy Burrows CANNES (Reuters) - Todd Haynes' new romantic drama "May December" shines a critical spotlight on the way women who break society's rules are held to much stricter standards than badly...
May 21, 2023
Fed’s Kashkari open to holding rates steady in June, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he could support holding interest rates steady at the central bank's next meeting in June to give officials more time to assess the effect...
May 21, 2023
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