Technology

PARIS (Reuters) – Amazon said on Wednesday it may temporarily close its warehouses in France after a court ordered the e-commerce giant to limit deliveries in the country to essential goods like food and medical supplies. The U.S. company is…

BERLIN (Reuters) – An Apple collaboration with Google will make it quicker to get systems for tracing coronavirus infections up and running, the prime mover behind a European effort to support the smartphone technology says. Technologists are racing to use…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department, Treasury, and Department of Homeland Security Issues, along with the FBI, issued an advisory on Wednesday about North Korean cyber threats that called particular attention to banking and finance. “North Korea’s malicious cyber…

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Valuations of Chinese unicorns have fallen below levels reached in the firms’ most-recent fundraising rounds, secondary market offerings by existing investors show, highlighting the strain on backers amid the coronavirus outbreak and volatile markets. Potential acquirers…

BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) China car registrations jumped 450% in March, month on month, data from auto consultancy LMC Automotive showed. Tesla’s China registrations rose to 12,70

PARIS (Reuters) – Amazon said on Wednesday it planned to appeal a French court ruling limiting deliveries to essential goods in order allow for a deeper assessment of coronavirus risks at its sites in the country. “We’re puzzled by the…

(Reuters) – Zoox Inc said on Tuesday it had settled a lawsuit with Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) after admitting that some new hires from the electric carmaker were in possession of certain Tesla documents when they joined the U.S. self-driving car…

NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) – Airbnb, whose home rental business is suffering as the coronavirus pandemic freezes global travel, has secured a new $1 billion loan just days after closing a $1 billion debt deal, the company said on Tuesday. Parties…

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it had fired three critics of the company’s pandemic response for workplace violations, dismissals that drew sharp words from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and a labor coalition. The company on Friday fired two…

(Reuters) – NBCUniversal’s long-awaited streaming service, Peacock, will launch free to some Comcast Corp customers on Wednesday with a limited slate of new content, as productions for its original programming have been halted amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Peacock will…