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(Reuters) – Fortnite creator Epic Games found support from its legions of gamers, Tinder-owner Match Group and Spotify for suing Apple and Google after the tech giants dropped the popular video game from their app stores for violating payment guidelines.…
The fall in the gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine in the second quarter of 2020 amounted to 11.4% compared to the same period in 20
Film director Yaroslav Lodygin watches a scene during the shooting of “Voroshylovgrad,” a movie near Starobilsk in Luhansk Oblast on Aug. 18. On Aug. 11 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed amendments to a law that aims to make…
A film crew works in One Location film studio in Kyiv on Aug. 11, 2020
HONG KONG (Reuters) – E-commerce conglomerate Alibaba (9988.HK) (BABA.N), handset maker Xiaomi (1810.HK) and WuXi Biologics (2269.HK) will enter the Hang Seng .HSI next month, broadening Hong Kong’s traditionally financial services-dominated index. The change announced by the Hang Seng Indexes…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Walmart’s (WMT.N) e-commerce platform Flipkart has partnered with a startup backed by spirits giant Diageo to deliver alcohol in two Indian cities, according to government letters seen by Reuters, months after Amazon (AMZN.O) planned a similar…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Ant Group, the fintech arm of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding (BABA.N), has made a preparatory filing with China’s securities regulator for its planned blockbuster initial public offering. The group, China’s biggest mobile payments company,…
Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine Tobias Thyberg, on the job for nearly a year, speaks with the Kyiv Post at his official residence above the Swedish Embassy in Kyiv on Aug. 12, 2020
A view of downtown Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 9, 2019. The wealthy Scandinavian nation of 10 million people is one of the few in the world that commits 1% of its gross domestic product to foreign development assistance. For Ukraine,…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – E-commerce conglomerate Alibaba (9988.HK) (BABA.N), handset maker Xiaomi (1810.HK) and WuXi Biologics (2269.HK) will enter Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index .HSI next month, the benchmark’s publisher announced on Friday evening. Alibaba and Xiaomi, along with delivery…