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 Elon Musk's SpaceX postpones debut flight of Starship rocket system

Elon Musk's SpaceX postpones debut flight of Starship rocket system

April 17, 2023 11:36 PM AEST | By Reuters

By Joe Skipper and Joey Roulette BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday called off a highly anticipated launch of its powerful new...


 Argentina battles major dengue outbreak with atomic radiation

Argentina battles major dengue outbreak with atomic radiation

April 17, 2023 11:33 PM AEST | By Reuters

By Horacio Soria and Juan Carlos Bustamante BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine, fighting one of its worst outbreaks of dengue in recent years, is ster...


 Elon Musk's SpaceX set for debut flight of Starship rocket system to space

Elon Musk's SpaceX set for debut flight of Starship rocket system to...

April 17, 2023 03:20 PM AEST | By Reuters

By Joe Skipper and Joey Roulette BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX made final preparations early on Monday to launch its powerful new S...


 Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI - FT

Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI - FT

April 15, 2023 03:47 AM AEST | By Reuters

(Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk is working on launching an artificial intelligence start-up that will rival ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, the Financial Time...


 Parler to shut down temporarily after Starboard buys social media platform

Parler to shut down temporarily after Starboard buys social media pl...

April 14, 2023 09:16 PM AEST | By Reuters

(Reuters) - Parler, the social media platform popular among U.S. conservatives, was acquired by Starboard and will be temporarily shut down, its new o...


 S.Korea's Yoon calls strategy meeting to boost chip, battery sectors

S.Korea's Yoon calls strategy meeting to boost chip, battery sectors

April 10, 2023 03:51 PM AEST | By Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered on Monday a national strategy meeting to boost the competitiveness of the country's rec...


 Dogecoin jumps as Musk's Twitter flips logo to Shiba Inu dog

Dogecoin jumps as Musk's Twitter flips logo to Shiba Inu dog

April 05, 2023 01:23 AM AEST | By Reuters

(Reuters) - Dogecoin's Shiba Inu dog replaced Twitter's blue bird as the social media company's logo on Tuesday, helping the meme coin add as much as...


 Samsung Display to invest $3.1 billion in OLED production in South Korea 

Samsung Display to invest $3.1 billion in OLED production in South K...

April 04, 2023 05:50 PM AEST | By Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics' unit Samsung Display plans to invest 4.1 trillion won ($3.14 billion) until 2026 in Asan, South Korea to make a...


 SK Hynix raises $1.7bln in convertible bond as chip slump deepens

SK Hynix raises $1.7bln in convertible bond as chip slump deepens

April 04, 2023 04:08 PM AEST | By Reuters

By Joyce Lee and Scott Murdoch SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Hynix has raised $1.7 billion in its first convertible bond sale in a decade, as the...


 SK Hynix raises $1.7 billion convertible bond amid chip glut

SK Hynix raises $1.7 billion convertible bond amid chip glut

April 04, 2023 01:28 PM AEST | By Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, has raised $1.7 billion in a convertible bond deal that comes...


 Tesla misses first-quarter delivery estimates

Tesla misses first-quarter delivery estimates

April 03, 2023 02:12 AM AEST | By Reuters

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc on Sunday missed estimates for first-quarter deliveries as a bleak economic outlook and rising competition outweighed the electr...


 Twitter makes some of its source code public

Twitter makes some of its source code public

April 01, 2023 05:48 AM AEDT | By Reuters

(Reuters) - Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and pro...


 Twitter makes content-recommendation code public

Twitter makes content-recommendation code public

April 01, 2023 05:40 AM AEDT | By Reuters

(Reuters) - Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and pro...


 Singapore-based software startup Horizon Quantum Computing raises $18.1 million

Singapore-based software startup Horizon Quantum Computing raises $1...

March 31, 2023 06:43 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Singapore-based software startup Horizon Quantum Computing on Friday said it raised $18.1 million to exp...


 Singapore's GIC to jointly buy Japanese HR software developer for $2.6 billion - Nikkei

Singapore's GIC to jointly buy Japanese HR software developer for $2...

March 30, 2023 08:59 PM AEDT | By Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Singapore's GIC will jointly acquire Works Human Intelligence, a human-resources software provider in Japan, for $2.6 billion, Japan...


 Kakao reaches 40% stake in K-pop agency SM, HYBE keeps 8.8%

Kakao reaches 40% stake in K-pop agency SM, HYBE keeps 8.8%

March 28, 2023 06:11 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean social media giant Kakao has reached a 40% stake in K-pop agency SM Entertainment, the target said on Tue...


 Only verified accounts can vote in Twitter polls from April 15, says Musk

Only verified accounts can vote in Twitter polls from April 15, says...

March 28, 2023 12:17 PM AEDT | By Reuters

(Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Monday only verified Twitter accounts would be eligible to vote in polls starting April 15, a move that the social media...


 Hong Kong makes new rules for specialist tech firm listings, cuts rev threshold

Hong Kong makes new rules for specialist tech firm listings, cuts re...

March 24, 2023 06:24 PM AEDT | By Reuters

(Reuters) - The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) said on Friday it had framed new listing rules for specialist technology companies, adopting a lower r...


 El Salvador president readies bill to eliminate taxes on tech

El Salvador president readies bill to eliminate taxes on tech

March 24, 2023 12:57 PM AEDT | By Reuters

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said on Thursday he will send to the country's Congress next week a bill to eliminate al...


 Central bank tests spur global instant payment hopes

Central bank tests spur global instant payment hopes

March 23, 2023 08:17 PM AEDT | By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - A year of tests run by central banks in Italy, Malaysia and Singapore have spurred hopes for a global instant payments network acce...


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