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France’s Vivendi sells 2.9% of Universal to Pershing Square for $1.15 billion
PARIS (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman's Pershing Square fund has committed to acquire an additional 2.9% of Universal Music Group (UMG) for $1.149 billion, French conglomerat...
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Russia’s Yandex restructures JV ownership with Uber in $1 billion deal
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian internet giant Yandex said on Tuesday it would buy Uber's stakes in their joint foodtech, delivery and self-driving businesses, and increase its stake in a mobility-focused j...
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Indonesia probes suspected data breach on COVID-19 app
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is investigating a suspected security flaw in a COVID-19 test-and-trace app that left exposed personal information and the health status of 1.3 million people, a health m...
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Prosus buys Indian payments company BillDesk for $4.7 billion
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Technology investor Prosus NV said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy Indian payments platform BillDesk for $4.7 billion to complement its own PayU business. "Together, the two expec...
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Norwegian Air hopeful of travel rebound but keeps cautious stance
By Victoria Klesty and Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Air forecast its bookings will rise in the months ahead as European travel resumes with the lifting of COVID-19 curbs, but the budget ca...
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Eat smart: IDEO’s Vivian Barad on rethinking global food systems
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) - At a meal, few people know the long and complicated process of how the food ended up there. Vivian Barad does. As managing director of the food practice for global...
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China’s biggest air show to highlight homegrown technology
By Stella Qiu and Jamie Freed BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) - China's biggest air show will put its homegrown civil and military aviation technology on display next month, the mayor of host city Zhuhai sai...
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Farmworker found guilty of murdering Iowa student is sentenced to life in prison
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - A Mexican farmworker found guilty in May of murdering an Iowa college student three years ago, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without parole. The case was seiz...
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U.S. Treasury says China private equity’s Magnachip purchase poses security risks
SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said the acquisition of Magnachip Semiconductor Corp by a Chinese private equity firm posed "risks to national security", in another hurdle for Chinese c...
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About 1.6 million more Americans had health insurance in 2020 – CDC
(Reuters) - About 1.6 million more Americans had some form of health insurance coverage despite the COVID-19 crisis last year, helped mainly by enrollment growth in government-sponsored health plans, ...
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