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Australia businesses suffer Omicron blues in Jan – survey
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - A measure of Australian business conditions took a turn for the worse in January as a surge in coronavirus cases hit consumer spending, though firms were optimistic th...
Feb 07, 2022
UK consumers slowed their spending as COVID rules returned in January
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers slowed the pace of their spending last month as the Omicron COVID-19 wave hit fuel sales and kept people away from bars and restaurants, accor...
Feb 07, 2022
Meta says it removed scammers’ Canada convoy Facebook groups
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Monday it had removed dozens of groups, pages and accounts that latched onto the truck convoy protest in Canada but were run b...
Feb 07, 2022
Judge orders U.S. to pay more than $230 million to Texas church shooting victims
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to pay slightly more than $230 million to survivors and family members of victims of a 2017 mass shooting at a Texas church ...
Feb 07, 2022
Frontier, Spirit tie-up will face close U.S. review – lawyers
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bid by budget carriers Frontier Group Holdings and Spirit Airlines Inc to create the fifth-largest U.S. airline will face close scrutiny from the Justice D...
Feb 07, 2022
U.S. House to vote to provide Postal Service with $50 billion in relief
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on Tuesday on a bipartisan reform bill aiming to help Postal Service (USPS) save about $50 billion over a de...
Feb 07, 2022
SoftBank’s $66 billion sale of Arm to Nvidia collapses – FT
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's $66 bln sale of Arm Ltd to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp has collapsed on Monday, the Financial Times reported, citing three people with direct knowledge of the transact...
Feb 07, 2022
Meta exec pitches metaverse business to advertisers
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - The metaverse will open up more ways for businesses to make money, an executive from Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc told an advertising conference on Monday, in ...
Feb 07, 2022
Twitter-funded social media project Bluesky adds Jack Dorsey to board
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Bluesky, a Twitter Inc-funded project that is seeking to rebuild how social media companies operate, said on Monday Twitter co-founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey...
Feb 07, 2022
U.S. warns of extremism after Texas synagogue attack, bomb threats in colleges
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The United States faces heightened threats from extremist groups domestic and foreign, underscored by last month's hostage standoff crisis in a Texas synagogue and bomb t...
Feb 07, 2022
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