WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Wednesday it has an ongoing review of the risks TikTok may present to U.S. data but stressed it has taken no new “proactive step” related to a pending plan for the Chinese-owned company’s American operations to be acquired by U.S. investors. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. […]

(Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc will supply its COVID-19 vaccine to the governments of Taiwan and Colombia, the company said, providing five million and 10 million doses respectively.Vials labelled “COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine” and sryinge are seen in front of displayed Moderna logo in this illustration taken, February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationModerna’s COVID-19 vaccine is not yet approved for use […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – New Zealand will first administer COVID-19 vaccines to quarantine personnel, front line health workers and airline staff, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said, as the government formally approved its use on Wednesday.Doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sit in a fridge at the Foch hospital in Suresnes, near Paris, France, February 8, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit TessierNew Zealand’s medicines regulator […]

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A preliminary United Nations inquiry into the theft of $281 million worth of assets from a cryptocurrency exchange last September “strongly suggests” links to North Korea – with industry analysts pointing to Seychelles-based KuCoin as the victim of one of the largest reported digital currency heists.Representations of cryptocurrency is seen in front of a Kucoin logo […]

(Reuters) – Bitcoin took another large stride toward mainstream acceptance on Monday after billionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla Inc revealed it had bought $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars, sending the cryptocurrency shooting higher. The announcements, buried deep in Tesla’s 2020 annual report, drove a roughly 20% […]

Slideshow ( 2 images )(Reuters) – Making sure a mask fits snugly on the face and use of two masks is likely to significantly reduce a person’s exposure to the coronavirus, laboratory experiments described by U.S. health officials on Wednesday showed. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January conducted experiments to see how well wearing a […]

(Reuters) – Electric aircraft startup Archer will go public through a merger with a blank-check company backed in a deal valued at around $3.8 billion and backed by an order and investment from United Airlines, among the first major airlines to commit to the purchase of air taxis.Slideshow ( 3 images )The deal with Atlas Crest Investment Corp, announced on […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Veteran investor Bill Foley plans to raise two new blank-check acquisition vehicles which will be named after a Napoleonic battle and seek around $1.5 billion in total from their initial public offerings (IPOs), a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.FILE PHOTO: Jun 21, 2017; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s factory gate prices rose in annual terms in January for the first time in a year, as months of strong manufacturing growth in the world’s second-largest economy pushed raw material costs higher.FILE PHOTO: A worker walks past steel rolls at the Chongqing Iron and Steel plant in Changshou, Chongqing, China August 6, 2018. Picture taken August […]