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Texas Supreme Court rejects Governor Abbott’s ban on school mask mandates – CNN
(Reuters) - The Texas Supreme Court rejected Governor Greg Abbott's intervention to suspend a mask mandate, thus allowing schools to require students to wear masks as per the mandates by local authori...
Aug 20, 2021
China’s SenseTime says daily users of its augmented reality tech number 100 million
By Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - China's SenseTime, which sells augmented reality technology to other companies, has seen global daily active users of that tech grow to 100 million f...
Aug 20, 2021
U.S. evacuates about 3,000 from Kabul airport on Thursday
(Reuters) - The United States evacuated about 3,000 people from Afghanistan's Kabul airport on Thursday, a White House official said. "The United States evacuated approximately 3,000 people from Hamid...
Aug 20, 2021
For bank regulators, tech giants are now too big to fail
By Iain Withers and Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - More than a decade on from the financial crisis, regulators are spooked once again that some companies at the heart of the financial system are too big...
Aug 20, 2021
China passes new personal data privacy law, to take effect Nov. 1
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's National People's Congress on Friday officially passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement the policy starting November 1,...
Aug 19, 2021
China Telecom jumps in Shanghai debut amid weak market
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Telecom Corp, blacklisted by the U.S. government, surged on its first day of trade on Friday, defying a bearish market and following its $7.3 billion fundraising via public ...
Aug 19, 2021
Billionaire Forrest picks up 5% in takeover target Western Areas
(Reuters) - Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has picked up a 5.3% stake in Western Areas, a filing showed on Friday, a day after IGO Ltd confirmed it was in early talks to buy the Australian nickel p...
Aug 19, 2021
System outage blocks transactions at Japan’s Mizuho bank
TOKYO (Reuters) - Branches of the main banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group were unable to process transactions on Friday, the latest in a series of embarrassing system errors. The glitch prevented ...
Aug 19, 2021
Ackman seeks SPAC relaunch to fix lawsuit’s ‘harm’
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) -Billionaire investor William Ackman said on Thursday he would pursue changes to his blank-check acquisition company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd to address "t...
Aug 19, 2021
Chinese internet companies should innovate, promote social values – state media
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Internet technology companies should seek new development and innovation methods, despite tougher supervision, and are encouraged to assume social responsibilities and promote soc...
Aug 19, 2021
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