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French firm Crypto Blockchain Industries: sells NFT assets linked to DJ star Guetta
PARIS (Reuters) - French fintech company Crypto Blockchain Industries, whose shares have surged since the company listed on the stock exchange in October, announced on Monday the sale of some NFT (non...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
Telenor and Thailand’s True Corp plan $200 million VC fund
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Norway's Telenor ASA on Monday said it would set up a venture capital fund with Thailand's True Corporation Pcl with a size of up to $200 million. "We will set up a venture capital...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
Analysis-Life after PEPP will test Southern Europe’s bond market calm
By Dhara Ranasinghe and Stefano Rebaudo LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Having weathered the COVID-19 crisis on the back of the ECB's 1.85 trillion-euro emergency stimulus package, the fragile bond markets o...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
South African tech investor Naspers logs 11% rise in first-half profit
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African technology investor Naspers Ltd said on Monday its first half profit climbed 11%, driven by a large contribution from Chinese internet giant Tencent in which it ...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
Prosus says H1 fiscal 2022 trading profit rose 8%
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Prosus NV reported on Monday that trading profit rose 8% to $2.9 billion for the first half of its fiscal year 2022 as its portfolio of investments in educational technology and ...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
Activists urge Biden to push for intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifteen human rights groups are urging U.S. President Joe Biden to get personally engaged in a long-running fight to enact an intellectual property waiver for C...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
Ericsson to buy cloud firm Vonage for $6.2 billion
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said on Monday it had agreed to buy cloud communications firm Vonage for $6.2 billion. "The merger agreement was approved unanimously by t...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
African nations mend and make do as China tightens Belt and Road
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - Deep in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, members of the National Youth Service tirelessly swing machetes to clear dense shrubs obscuring railway tracks more than a centu...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
IMF to revive $6 billion Pakistan funding programme
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday it has reached an agreement with Pakistan that will help revive a stalled $6 billion funding programme for the...
Syndicated Content Nov 22, 2021
Exclusive-U.N. warns of ‘colossal’ collapse of Afghan banking system
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday pushed for urgent action to prop up Afghanistan's banks, warning that a spike in people unable to repay loans, lower deposit...
Syndicated Content Nov 21, 2021
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