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(Reuters) – Relativity Space has signed a contract with Iridium to launch six spare satellites for its communications network, the venture-backed rocket firm’s chief executive said, clinching a key satellite customer for its upcoming 3D-printed rocket. The Iridium Communications Inc…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo-backed The Pokemon Company on Wednesday announced a cross-platform Pokemon team battling game developed with Tencent’s Timi Studio as the two gaming heavyweights deepen their cooperation with a twist on the Pokemon format. In “Pokemon Unite” teams…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has held an express stress test in order to assess the impact of the current crisis on banks. It assessed the impact on capital of 26 large banks with the share of assets of…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Telecoms operators in Singapore said they had selected Nokia and Ericsson to build infrastructure for new 5G networks. A joint venture between M1 and Starhub awarded one of the city-state’s licences said they had selected Nokia to…
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – An incorrect facial recognition match led to the first known wrongful arrest in the United States based on the increasingly used technology, civil liberties activists alleged in a complaint to Detroit police on Wednesday. Robert Williams…
MUNICH/MANILA (Reuters) – Wirecard’s $2.1 billion accounting scandal is being investigated by the Philippines, which said that the German payments firm’s former chief operating officer Jan Marsalek may be in the country. Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesday…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asian ride-hailing and payments company Grab said it had put a partnership with scandal-hit Wirecard on hold, days after the German payments firm disclosed a $2.1 billion financial hole that threatens its future. “We have not…
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia’s new chief executive Pekka Lundmark will join the company on August 1, a month earlier than planned, the Finnish telecom equipment maker said on Wednesday. The announcement came after Lundmark’s previous employer, Finnish utility Fortum, said…
MUNICH (Reuters) – Former Wirecard (WDIG.DE) CEO Markus Braun, who was arrested on suspicion of falsifying the German payments firm’s accounts, has been released from custody, his lawyer told Reuters on Wednesday. Braun walked free one day after turning himself…
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will try out a new smartphone app aimed at thwarting the spread of the coronavirus by injecting hundreds of false cases into the system in a test run starting on Friday on the Canary Island of…