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How China became big business for Twitter, from blocking to blue checks

How China became big business for Twitter, from blocking to blue checks

By Fanny Potkin, Eduardo Baptista and Tony Munroe SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -Even as China bars 1.4 billion citizens from Twitter, i..

London flight, hotel fares surge ahead of Queen’s funeral

London flight, hotel fares surge ahead of Queen’s funeral

By Muhammed Husain and Chandini Monnappa (Reuters) – Hotel prices in London and airfares to the British capital are soaring as h..

Bank of England to raise rates by 50bps again to tame inflation: Reuters Poll

Bank of England to raise rates by 50bps again to tame inflation: Reuters Poll

By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England looks set to hike borrowing costs by another 50 basis points next week,..

UK unemployment hits lowest since 1974 but jobs boom is fading

UK unemployment hits lowest since 1974 but jobs boom is fading

By William Schomberg and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s jobless rate hit its lowest since 1974 but the drop was due ..

Fuel markets to stay tight till mid-2020s as refining shrinks

Fuel markets to stay tight till mid-2020s as refining shrinks

By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON (Reuters) – Crude oil refining capacity has shrunk by a record 3.8 million barrels per day from March 20..

UK’s FTSE 100 gets a lift from commodities as U.S. inflation data looms

UK’s FTSE 100 gets a lift from commodities as U.S. inflation data looms

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) – UK’s main index ticked up in choppy trading on Tuesday on gains i..

How to Save Money as a Student During the Cost of Living Crisis

How to Save Money as a Student During the Cost of Living Crisis

A recent study published by the UK’s National Union of Students found that one in every three students will be living on less than £50..

Bottlenecks, supply problems improving at ABB robotics division – board member

Bottlenecks, supply problems improving at ABB robotics division – board member

MUNICH (Reuters) – Bottlenecks in the supply of semiconductors and other components for ABB’s robotics division are improv..

Stora Enso sells paper mill to German Lidl owner Schwarz Group

Stora Enso sells paper mill to German Lidl owner Schwarz Group

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish forestry group Stora Enso said on Tuesday it would sell its Maxau paper production site in Germany ..

Spain August final 12-month inflation at 10.5%

Spain August final 12-month inflation at 10.5%

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish consumer prices rose 10.5% year-on-year in August, slightly higher than the flash estimate released last mon..

Ocado Retail cuts outlook as Britons tighten belts

Ocado Retail cuts outlook as Britons tighten belts

By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -British online supermarket Ocado Retail downgraded its full-year outlook on Tuesday, saying customers..

Seeking right tone, new UK PM Truss had to quickly change gear for queen

Seeking right tone, new UK PM Truss had to quickly change gear for queen

By Elizabeth Piper and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Just a week after Queen Elizabeth asked Liz Truss to form a government,..

Cryptoverse: Ether snaps at bitcoin’s heels in race for crypto crown

Cryptoverse: Ether snaps at bitcoin’s heels in race for crypto crown

By Medha Singh and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – For years, ether could barely dream of challenging its big brother bitcoin..

Oracle offers its MySQL HeatWave database and analytics on Amazon’s cloud

Oracle offers its MySQL HeatWave database and analytics on Amazon’s cloud

(Reuters) – Oracle Corp has started to offer MySQL HeatWave, its cloud database service for transactions, analytics and machine ..

French cloud provider OVH lines up diesel generators to offset potential power cuts

French cloud provider OVH lines up diesel generators to offset potential power cuts

By Mathieu Rosemain STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – OVHcloud, France’s biggest home grown cloud services provider, is braci..

Premium bicycles win new fans among China’s city folk

Premium bicycles win new fans among China’s city folk

BEIJING (Reuters) – Zhou Changchang likes to spend his spare time cruising along the streets of China’s capital with his c..

Nintendo shares jump 5% on record ‘Splatoon’ launch

Nintendo shares jump 5% on record ‘Splatoon’ launch

By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) – Shares in Nintendo Co Ltd jumped 5% on Tuesday after the Japanese gaming company reported record..

Most Twitter shareholders vote in favor of sale to Musk-sources

Most Twitter shareholders vote in favor of sale to Musk-sources

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) – A majority of Twitter Inc’s shareholders have voted in favor of the social media compan..

Bezos’ Blue Origin suffers rocket failure during uncrewed mission

Bezos’ Blue Origin suffers rocket failure during uncrewed mission

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A rocket from Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin failed mid-flight shortly after lifto..

The future of contactless payments

The future of contactless payments

By Stacey ONeill, Managing Director, Nationwide Courier Services, https://nationwidecourierserviceltd.co.uk/ Contactless payments are ..

No Time to Procrastinate for SMEs

No Time to Procrastinate for SMEs

With COVID-19, labour shortages, and now the impact of geopolitical conflict to contend with, businesses are losing confid..

The Advantages of Cloud Computing for Financial Organisations

The Advantages of Cloud Computing for Financial Organisations

By Gordon Davey, general manager of Azure Cloud Services, SoftwareONE’s As a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns, organisations have had ..

Explainer-The G7’s price cap on Russian oil begins to take shape

Explainer-The G7’s price cap on Russian oil begins to take shape

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Group of Seven countries is working to cap the price of Russian oil in an attempt to limi..

King Charles, in parliament, promises to follow queen’s example

King Charles, in parliament, promises to follow queen’s example

LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles told parliament on Monday he was “resolved faithfully to follow” the example set by his mot..

Mobile school offers hope to nomad children in Chad

Mobile school offers hope to nomad children in Chad

By Mahamat Ramadane TOUKRA, Chad (Reuters) – In a makeshift open-air classroom, dozens of children sat squeezed together on a ma..

Global reinsurers see inflation, war driving higher rates

Global reinsurers see inflation, war driving higher rates

By Miranda Murray and Carolyn Cohn BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) -Global geopolitical tensions, high inflation and climate change have heigh..

ECB governors see rising risk of rate hitting 2% to curb inflation – sources

ECB governors see rising risk of rate hitting 2% to curb inflation – sources

By Francesco Canepa PRAGUE (Reuters) -European Central Bank policymakers see a rising risk that they will have to raise their key inte..

Tennis-The future is now: Alcaraz wins U.S. Open and becomes world number one

Tennis-The future is now: Alcaraz wins U.S. Open and becomes world number one

By Rory Carroll NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz completed his rapid rise to the top of the tennis world on Sunday,..

Australia financial crimes regulator opens investigation into Britain’s Entain

Australia financial crimes regulator opens investigation into Britain’s Entain

(Reuters) -The Australian financial crimes regulator said on Monday it opened an investigation into British sports betting giant Entai..

Exclusive: Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports

Exclusive: Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports

By Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON(Reuters) – The Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on U.S sh..

King Charles to fly to Scotland to join sombre procession of queen’s coffin

King Charles to fly to Scotland to join sombre procession of queen’s coffin

By Michael Holden and Andrew MacAskill EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles will fly to Edinburgh to join his sibl..

Oprah-produced ‘Sidney’ shows how Poitier ‘redefined’ Hollywood

Oprah-produced ‘Sidney’ shows how Poitier ‘redefined’ Hollywood

By Jenna Zucker and Divya Rajagopal TORONTO (Reuters) – The late Sidney Poitier forever changed the conception of what a Black m..

Israel sees no new Iran nuclear deal before U.S. November mid-terms

Israel sees no new Iran nuclear deal before U.S. November mid-terms

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel does not anticipate a renewal of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers before the U.S. mid-te..

Some Russians mourn Queen Elizabeth with flowers as Kremlin pays respects

Some Russians mourn Queen Elizabeth with flowers as Kremlin pays respects

By Mikhail Antonov and Lev Sergeev MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin paid respectful tribute to Queen Elizabeth on Friday and dozen..

Rate rise fears prompt third week of global equity funds outflows

Rate rise fears prompt third week of global equity funds outflows

(Reuters) – Global equity funds remained out of favour in the seven days to Sept. 7 as a strong U.S. services industry report fu..

Queen Elizabeth’s death: Reaction from world leaders

Queen Elizabeth’s death: Reaction from world leaders

(Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, died ..

Motor racing-Porsche’s Formula One plans stall as Red Bull talks collapse

Motor racing-Porsche’s Formula One plans stall as Red Bull talks collapse

BERLIN (Reuters) – Porsche and Red Bull have ended talks over Porsche joining Formula One, but the German sports car brand remai..