By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The 2013 video game “The Last of Us” was a hit with critics and players thanks to a powerful narrative. Ten years later, that story is headed to television on HBO in what the industry hopes is a harbinger for artfully adapting video games to …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform’s handling of online tracking known as “cookies”, which the ByteDance-owned company said it had now addressed. French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service’s much …
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By Foo Yun Chee and Kirstin Ridley BRUSSELS (Reuters) – HSBC on Thursday failed to overturn a court ruling that it had participated in a cartel to rig benchmark Euribor rates in 2007, but Europe’s top court confirmed that a 33.6 million euro ($36 million) fine had been scrapped. The European Court of Justice, Europe’s …
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Thursday announced a plan to more than halve the government’s estimated deficit this year by boosting revenue and trimming expenditures, helping to lift the real currency to its strongest level in two months. Gains occurred in a session in which various currencies rose …
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By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian police found a draft decree in the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s justice minister that appears to be a proposal to interfere in the result of the October election he lost, two people familiar with the investigation said on Thursday. The proposed decree, elaborated after Bolsonaro’s narrow …
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By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the Biden administration unveiled aggressive export controls in October aimed at blocking China from becoming a global leader in advanced semiconductors it was missing a key ingredient: agreement from U.S. allies to impose their own matching restrictions. Persuading Japan to join the U.S. effort, which …
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By Alicia Powell (Reuters) – From college hoops to a Russian jail cell, the life of basketball star Brittney Griner is being told in a new comic book from TidalWave Comics. Griner is part of the publisher’s Female Force series that celebrates women with inspirational stories. Griner was arrested on Feb. 17 at an airport …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eight major media outlets on Thursday asked the U.S. judge overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal case to make public the names of two people who helped guarantee the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder’s $250 million bond. Saying the public interest “cannot be overstated,” lawyers for the outlets, …
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By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. U.S. inflation data for December is in, and while market reaction was perhaps a little muted relative to recent releases and the hype surrounding it, the overriding message for investors was clear: keep calm and risk on. A …
(Reuters) – LendingClub Corp said on Thursday it has laid off 14% of its workforce, or 225 employees, joining several financial firms which cut costs as threats of a recession loom large. Tech firms and Wall Street titans have axed thousands of jobs recently to rein in expenses as the U.S. Federal Reserve’s hefty interest …
