Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil’s JBS launches fund to foster Amazon preservation
By Roberto Samora SAO PAULO (Reuters) - JBS SA , the world's top meatpacker, launched on Wednesday a 1 billion reais ($182.77 million) fund to foster social and economic development in the Amazon, acc...
Sep 23, 2020
Israel’s Mobileye, Dubai’s Habtoor partner on self-driving cars
By Tova Cohen, Ari Rabinovitch and Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) - Israel's Mobileye and United Arab Emirate's Al Habtoor Group launched a partnership on Wednesday to create a fleet of ...
Sep 23, 2020
Hedge fund manager Alexander Klabin to invest in auction house Sotheby’s
(Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Alexander Klabin will invest in international art auction house Sotheby's and become the executive chairman of its art financing business, the company said on Wednesday....
Sep 23, 2020
Special Report: A killing at sea implicates the armed forces in lawless Venezuela
By Angus Berwick and Luc Cohen CARACAS (Reuters) - Around midnight on February 23, Eulalio Bravo, a marine electrician, was dozing in his rack aboard the San Ramon, an oil tanker anchored off the coas...
Sep 23, 2020
Geely debuts its first EV-focused architecture
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group on Wednesday launched its first electric vehicle-focused platform to enable automakers to more efficiently roll out models for different purpos...
Sep 23, 2020
Coming to a cinema near you: the life of UK’s Captain Tom
LONDON (Reuters) - British centenarian and charity star Captain Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds for the health service by walking laps of his garden during lockdown, has signed a deal to film...
Sep 23, 2020
Upload your coronavirus test results, German app users urged
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's health minister on Wednesday urged users of a smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections to upload positive test results into the system, so that others at risk g...
Sep 23, 2020
Credit Suisse, UBS held tie-up talks backed by both chairmen: Bilanz
ZURICH (Reuters) - The chairmen of UBS and Credit Suisse supported a merger of equals between Switzerland's two largest banks during discussions earlier this year, Swiss magazine Bilanz reported on We...
Sep 23, 2020
Roche, AC Immune anti-Tau Alzheimer’s drug fails trial
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche and partner AC Immune said their experimental anti-Tau Alzheimer's disease drug semorinemab failed to slow cognitive decline in a trial, a fresh blow to effort...
Sep 23, 2020
Hong Kong government ends Disney’s option for expanding theme park
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will lose its option to buy a plot of land next to its Hong Kong theme park that was to allow for future expansion after the city's government said on Wednesday it...
Sep 23, 2020
