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Google expands in Brazil seeking to improve areas of privacy and security
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is slated to hire 200 engineers in Brazil this year, as it seeks to bolster its privacy, security, and anti-abusive content technologies, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, its d...
Jan 25, 2022
Taiwan family helps keep hand-made ‘ghost money’ tradition alive
By Fabian Hamacher MIAOLI, Taiwan (Reuters) - Painstakingly, women of retirement age adorn sheet after sheet of yellow joss paper with gold and silver leaf and red paint to satisfy last orders for sac...
Jan 25, 2022
U.S. Coast Guard reports 39 missing from capsized boat off Florida
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Rescue crews searched waters off Florida's Atlantic shore on Tuesday for 39 people reported missing by a survivor found clinging to a boat that capsized in what the U.S. Co...
Jan 25, 2022
BOJ debated chance of inflation pick-up towards 2% – Jan meeting summary
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Some Bank of Japan policymakers saw consumer inflation briefly accelerating towards 2% as price pressures build up on changing corporate price-setting behaviour, a sum...
Jan 25, 2022
Peoria Lock and Dam work included in federal infrastructure bill
CREVE COEUR, Ill. – A project fifteen years in the making can finally start thanks to the federal infrastructure bill recently signed into law. Seven locks and dams along the Illinois and Missis...
Jan 25, 2022
NBCUniversal lowering its TV ratings expectations for Winter Olympics
By Helen Coster (Reuters) -NBCUniversal is lowering its TV ratings expectations for the Beijing Winter Games by as much as half depending on the time of day and the platform, the company said on Tuesd...
Jan 25, 2022
NBCUniversal lowering its TV ratings expectations for Winter Olympics
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - NBCUniversal is lowering its TV ratings expectations for the Beijing Winter Games by as much as half depending on the time of day and the platform, the company said on Tues...
Jan 25, 2022
Environmental groups sue to undo 2017 PolyMet mine deal in Minnesota
(Reuters) - Environmentalists sued the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse a 2017 land transfer that gave PolyMet Mining Corp more than 6,600 acres (2,670 hectares) needed to build...
Jan 25, 2022
Robinhood says in ‘strong position’ to face unlikely market events
(Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc on Tuesday highlighted steps it had taken over the past year to avoid imposing trading restrictions and said it was in a "strong position" to support customers throug...
Jan 25, 2022
Analysis-A metaverse with Chinese characteristics is a clean and compliant metaverse
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - How will China's metaverse evolve? Look to the letter "c". Clean, censored, compliant and crypto-less is the view from experts. The descriptions point to the lo...
Jan 25, 2022
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