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The top US consumer financial watchdog recently proposed to regulate tech giants’ digital payments and smartphone wallet services, saying they rival traditional payment methods in scale and scope but lack ...

Big Tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political advertising on their platforms, who paid for it and how much and which elections are being targeted, ...

Amazon (AMZN.O) is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet (GOOGL.O), two people familiar with ...

By Maria Demertzis On 20 October, S&P Global Ratings raised the Greek economy’s credit rating back to investment grade. That was seen by many, in Greece and beyond, ...

Ebay (EBAY.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue and profit below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday and joined other e-commerce platforms in sounding the alarm on weaker-than-expected consumer spending. San Jose, California-based ...

Samsung and Qualcomm are among those opposing India’s choice of technology to bring live TV broadcasts on smartphones, arguing the required hardware changes will push up a device’s ...

Bumble (BMBL.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday in a sign that sticky inflation and growing competition were weighing on user spending on its dating apps, ...

China’s ByteDance, the parent of short video app TikTok, is offering to buy back shares from its employees outside the United States for $160 apiece, a source familiar with the ...

Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) Australia on Wednesday announced hundreds of job cuts citing a slowing economy and the after-effects of a national scandal over leaked tax documents as a major audit ...

Corporate loans whose costs are linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals are being redesigned by banks in response to rising regulatory pressure and to inject more credibility into ...

A hawkish lean from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell chilled a recent rebound in stocks and bonds, with some investors suggesting the central bank was pushing back against loosening financial ...

Britain’s sluggish economy failed to grow in the July-to-September period but at least managed to avoid the start of a recession, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed ...

International flight bookings around the world have fallen since the onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict especially in the Americas as people cancel trips to the Middle East and around the ...

An EU tribunal made legal errors when it ruled in favour of Apple over a 13-billion-euro ($14 billion) tax order and should review the case again, an adviser to Europe’s ...

Sony’s (6758.T) operating profit fell 29 per cent in the July-September quarter as the company was hit by a weaker performance at its image sensor and financial divisions. Profit for ...

Coca Cola HBC said on Wednesday it was temporarily withdrawing batches of two soft drinks from sale in Croatia while the authorities there investigate cases of illness suspected to have ...

Russian fuel producers have been told by the government to prepare for the scrapping of all remaining restrictions on the export of diesel and gasoline, three industry sources told Reuters ...

In the two years before the war in Ukraine, a private Boeing 737 linked to Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov criss-crossed the globe, taking in the French Riviera, the Maldives and Seychelles ...

The International Monetary Fund has hardened its view on how Argentina is running a $44 billion loan programme that has gone off track ahead of the country’s key presidential vote ...

The euro held onto a 15-year high against the yen and inched higher on the dollar on Thursday, following hawkish remarks from European policymakers and the prospect of falling energy ...

The European subsidiary of Russia’s VTB (VTBR.MM) is changing its name after its parent refused to allow it to operate under the brand, an executive told Reuters. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will take part on Thursday in an atypical international humanitarian conference in Paris on means of providing aid to civilians in Gaza. He is expected to present ...

British retailer Marks & Spencer reported a much better-than-expected 75 per cent rise in first-half profit and restored its dividend but cautioned the combination of high borrowing costs, erratic weather and ...

France’s Renault (RENA.PA) has cut its stake in Nissan (7201.T) to 15 per cent from about 43 per cent by placing 28.4 per cent of the Japanese automaker in a French ...