By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Tesla Inc has moved a step closer to its launch in India later this year by registering a company in the country, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday. Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Limited was incorporated on Jan. 8 with its registered office in the southern city of Bengaluru, a hub for several global...
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(Reuters) - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who was knighted for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide Web, wants to re-make cyberspace once again. With a new startup called Inrupt, Berners-Lee aims to fix some of the problems that have handicapped the so-called open web in an age of huge, closed platforms such as Facebook (NASDAQ:FB)....
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LONDON (Reuters) - Social media firms are entitled to make their own decisions about content moderation but must be accountable, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump's suspension from Twitter. "Social media companies are entitled to make their own moderation decisions," the spokesman said. "Social media companies must be held accountable for the...
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Global deliveries for Volkswagen (DE:VOWG_p)'s Skoda Auto fell 19.1% to 1.005 million vehicles in 2020, hit by the coronavirus pandemic and temporary outages, the Czech carmaker said on Tuesday. The company saw its biggest drop in China, where deliveries fell 38.7%, it said....
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco (LON:TSCO), Britain's biggest retailer, on Tuesday followed smaller rivals Sainsbury's and Morrisons, saying it will not let anyone into its stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are medically exempt. To help stem the spread of COVID-19, Tesco said it is also asking customers to shop alone, unless they are a carer or...
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(Reuters) - American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who built lavish gambling palaces that made him one of the world's richest men and became a potent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has died at age 87. Adelson, who headed the world's largest casino company, Las Vegas Sands,...
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(Bloomberg) -- Europe is girding for an extended blast of freezing conditions with temperatures set to drop below zero in many parts by the end of this week. A sub-zero blast that has already blanketed Madrid in a rare snowfall is set to worsen with a weather phenomenon known as a sudden stratospheric warming. The event can disrupt the polar vortex, the winds...
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By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- The House will vote on asking Vice President Mike Pence to remove Donald Trump from the president’s office. A vote on impeachment is pencilled in for Wednesday in the (likely) event of Pence refusing. Angela Merkel warns Germany may need another 10 weeks of lockdown, while a raft of Fed speakers will flesh out thoughts of when the best...
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Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher. At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.54% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.50%. The biggest gainers of the session on the...
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By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- Just as things were beginning to look a bit ropy for Europe’s exporters, help may be at hand. Only a couple of days ago, the EUR/USD was at its highest in nearly three years, having risen 12% against the dollar from its post-pandemic low. Many analysts had already assumed that $1.25 would be the next big number to fall,...
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