Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Waze’s ex-CEO says app could have ‘grown faster’ without Google
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Waze has struggled to grow within Alphabet Inc's Google, the navigation app's former top executive said, renewing concerns over whether it was stifled by the search giant's ...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Ackman details 2020 performance, names female investment team member
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund manager William Ackman, whose bets on companies are closely watched, updated investors on how his flagship fund earned a record 70.2% retu...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Myanmar’s coup opponents welcome new British, Canadian sanctions
(Reuters) - Opponents of Myanmar's military coup welcomed new sanctions from Britain and Canada on Friday as protesters prepared to take to the streets for what will mark two weeks of daily demonstrat...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Short-selling under spotlight in GameStop hearing
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - Short selling was under the microscope on Thursday as a U.S. House committee grilled executives from trading app Robinhood and hedge funds Melvin Capital and Citad...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Study in Israel shows Pfizer vaccine 85% effective after first dose: The Lancet
(Reuters) - The first dose of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine is 85% effective, a study of Israeli healthcare workers published in The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Australian news sites’ traffic falls after Facebook blocks content – Chartbeat
By Elizabeth Culliford and Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Total web traffic to Australian news sites dropped by around 13% after Facebook Inc blocked their content on the social media platform this week, acc...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Guest rotations and temperature checks at Rebecca Minkoff NY fashion show
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Designer Rebecca Minkoff recreated an indoor botanical garden for her latest line at New York Fashion Week in one of the event's few live shows, with a limited nu...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
New look at first black hole detected shows it is bigger than expected
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fresh examination has revealed new details about the first black hole ever detected - which was spotted in 1964 and became the subject of a friendly wager betwe...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Hedge fund manager Plotkin’s GameStop short, dissected
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Gabriel Plotkin first bet against the future of GameStop Corp in 2014 when it traded around $40. But after a harrowing experience with shor...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
Japan finds more than 90 cases of new COVID-19 virus strain: media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese health authorities have found more than 90 cases of a new strain of the COVID-19 virus, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Friday. The variant is believed to have come from ...
Syndicated Content Feb 18, 2021
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