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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Allowing millions of Brazilian users of Facebook’s WhatsApp to send money as easily as texts seemed a golden opportunity for the world’s largest social media company. The ubiquitous messaging service was finally entering the financial services…

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) – A $20 billion fund raising spree may take India’s Reliance (RELI.NS) closer to its dream of becoming a digital giant, further threatening the ambitious plans U.S. companies like Amazon (AMZN.O), Walmart (WMT.N) and Zoom have for…

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Europe’s top court on Thursday rejected a key EU tool used to transfer Europeans’ personal data across the Atlantic for commercial use but upheld the validity of another tool used by hundreds of thousands of companies to…

BEIJING (Reuters) – Britain’s “discriminatory” ban on Huawei has severely damaged China’s investment confidence in the country, China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday, adding it will take necessary measures to defend Chinese firms’ legal rights. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German authorities pressed on for four years investigating investors who bet against Wirecard AG’s shares, even after a UK regulator concluded that their evidence against the short sellers was “not sufficient,” according to documents and people familiar…

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s security and resilience in the run-up to the U.S.…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter (TWTR.N) said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk…

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s vehicle registrations nearly halved in the U.S. state of California during the second quarter, according to data from Cross-Sell, a marketing research firm that collates title and registration data. Most parts of the United States were…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A series of high-profile Twitter (TWTR.N) accounts were hijacked on Wednesday, with some of the platform’s top voices – including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality television show star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President Barack Obama, billionaire…