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REUTERS: Facebook Inc is planning to launch a gaming mobile app on Monday focused mainly on live game streaming in a bid to take on Amazon.com Inc's Twitch, Google's YouTube and Microsoft Corp's Mixer services, the New York Times reported on Sunday (Apr 19). Facebook Gaming was originally ......

WASHINGTON: US lawmakers are very close to an agreement on approving extra money to help small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic and could seal a deal as early as Sunday (Apr 19), congressional and Trump administration officials said. "I think we're very close to a deal today and I'm...

Facebook Inc is planning to launch a gaming mobile app on Monday focused mainly on live game streaming in a bid to take on Amazon.com Inc's Twitch, Google's YouTube and Microsoft Corp's Mixer services, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

REUTERS: Wynn Resorts Chief Executive Officer Matt Maddox on Sunday (Apr 19) called on the Nevada governor to begin to reopen the Las Vegas Strip in mid- to late May with extensive safety measures in place, assuming the state is in line with certain benchmarks around the spread of...

REUTERS: The U.S. stock market has rebounded swiftly despite a raft of terrible economic news, driven by a massive boost from the Federal Reserve, hopes of a successful reopening of the economy and possible coronavirus treatments, as well as investors' fear-of-missing-out. But not everyone is ...

Amazon will keep its six warehouses in France closed until at least April 22 after a stand-off with unions over sanitary conditions amid the coronavirus outbreak, it said on Sunday.

SHANGHAI: Chinese electronics retailer Gome Retail Holding on Sunday said it would raise US$200 million through a convertible bond issue that will be entirely taken up by e-commerce platform Pinduoduo. The deal comes as the COVID-19 pandemic, which first emerged in China last December, has sent a ...

Neiman Marcus Group is preparing to seek bankruptcy protection as soon as this week, becoming the first major U.S. department store operator to succumb to the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, people familiar with the matter said.

REUTERS: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp on Saturday said it was hit by a "Maze" ransomware cyber attack, resulting in service disruptions for some of its clients. The information technology services provider said it was taking steps to contain the incident, with the help of cyber defense ...

SINGAPORE: Temasek Holdings said on Sunday (Apr 19) that claims that its chief executive Ho Ching's annual salary is "around S$100 million" are false. In a statement published on its website, the Singapore state investment firm said the claim came from "chatter based on an Asian talk show ...