Top French court upholds $56 million Google privacy breach fine
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s top administrative court upheld a 50
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Parliament adopts law on financial markets
The Verkhovna Rada at second reading and as a whole adopted the law amending certain laws to attract investment and introduce new financial instruments (bill No. 2284), which is updated bill No. 90
Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine, lifecell start refarming in 900 MHz band
Mobile operators of Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine and lifecell have begun refarming the radio frequency spectrum in the 900 MHz band. According to the Kyivstar's report, the use of low radio frequencies will provide mobile operators with the opportunity to implement…
Statistics Service improves assessment of Ukraine’s GDP fall in Q1 2020 from 1.5% to 1.3%
The decline of Ukraine's GDP in January-March 2020 was 1.3% year-over-year, while according to the preliminary assessment published in the middle of May, the indicator was 1.5%. According to the statistics service, GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 20
UK tells telcos to stockpile Huawei gear in face of U.S. sanctions: letter
LONDON (Reuters) – British security officials have told UK telecom operators to ensure they have adequate stockpiles of Huawei equipment due to fears that new U.S. sanctions will disrupt the Chinese firm’s ability to maintain critical supplies, according to a…
Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia
FRANKFURT/MANILA (Reuters) – Wirecard’s chief executive quit on Friday as the German payments firm’s search for $2.1 billion of missing cash hit a dead end in the Philippines and it scrambled to secure a financial lifeline from its banks. Markus…
Apple to shut some U.S. stores again due to rising COVID-19 cases
(Reuters) – Apple Inc said on Friday it is temporarily shutting some stores again in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, and North Carolina in the United States, as novel coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country. Shares of the company,…
Enthusiasts build Hobbit-style village in Ukraine’s Carpathians
Top left: Co-founder of Hobbithill Andrii Boiechko poses for a photograph at the construction site of this village near the town of Verkhovyna in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Bottom left: The village will have houses set into hillsides to resemble the “hobbit-holes”…
Increase in iron ore royalty amid crisis unacceptable – Metinvest CEO
The Metinvest mining and smelting group considers it untimely and unreasonable to increase the royalty for iron ore extraction, which is contained in the law on improving tax administration (bill No. 1210
Naftogaz head skeptical about signing long-term contracts to import LNG
Naftogaz Ukrainy Executive Board Chairman Andriy Kobolev is cautious about an idea of signing long-term contracts to supply liquefied natural gas to Ukraine by Louisiana Natural Gas Exports. In his opinion, in particular, the potential import of LNG in…