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MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine police drew criticism from netizens and activists on Sunday for a plan to monitor social media to enforce quarantine rules, with critics accusing the authorities of authoritarianism and double standards. National Police Lieutenant General Guillermo Eleazar,…

MOSTAR, Bosnia (Reuters) – A Bosnian fan of both Ford trucks and Elon Musk’s Tesla could not just sit on his hands waiting for the electric carmaker to release its Cybertruck, expected from late 2021. Instead he came up with…

(Reuters) – Epic Games said late on Friday that it has asked a court to stop what it saw as Apple Inc’s retaliation against the “Fortnite” creator after the iPhone maker terminated Epic Games’ account on its App Store. Epic…

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has long positioned himself as a global internet entrepreneur, largely eschewing Chinese government involvement, but U.S. demands to sell his crown jewel TikTok are testing the boundaries with Beijing. A year ago,…

SAO PAULO/NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Softbank Group is taking a direct role in managing its virus-hit hospitality startup Oyo’s operations in Latin America through a joint venture which will control all hotels in the region, the head of Oyo Brazil…

(Reuters) – Shares of Tesla (TSLA.O) tumbled 7% in extended trade on Friday after the electric car maker was excluded from a group of companies being added to the S&P 500, among them Etsy, whose stock market value is less…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Friday removed the pages of U.S. right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company spokesman told Reuters. Patriot Prayer has hosted dozens of pro-gun, pro-Trump rallies and attendees have…

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) was not part of the companies to be added to the S&P 500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department said on Friday it has completed a comprehensive re-evaluation of its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract proposals and determined that Microsoft Corp’s submission still represents the best value for the government. Despite…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department said on Friday it has completed a comprehensive re-evaluation of its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract proposals and determined that Microsoft Corp’s submission continues to represent the best value for the government.…