By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Agriculture Department, Brooke Rollins, led an organization that opposed ethanol mandates and farm subsidies, major programs she could influence if confirmed, according to a Reuters review of the group’s policy statements. That background may put Rollins at odds with farm state lawmakers at…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Microsoft’s LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models. According to a proposed class action filed on Tuesday night on behalf of millions of LinkedIn Premium customers, LinkedIn quietly…
LONDON (Reuters) -Google on Wednesday won an injunction from London’s High Court to prevent the enforcement of Russian judgments against the U.S. tech giant over the closure of various Google and YouTube accounts. Judge Andrew Henshaw granted Google a permanent anti-enforcement injunction, on the grounds that Google and YouTube’s terms and conditions required disputes to…
By Echo Wang, Curtis Williams and David French (Reuters) – Venture Global LNG was forced to nearly halve the valuation it is seeking in its U.S. initial public offering (IPO) after investors balked at the company’s estimated long-term profit for liquefying gas for export, investors told Reuters. The company is the second-largest exporter of liquefied…
By Hyunjoo Jin and Stephen Nellis SEOUL/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled its newest flagship smartphone, powered by Qualcomm’s chips and Google’s artificial-intelligence model, hoping its upgraded AI features can reinvigorate sales and fend off Apple and Chinese rivals. Samsung was faster than Apple in launching an AI-powered smartphone but failed to…
By Jarrett Renshaw, David Morgan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing a plan to explicitly use revenue from higher tariffs on imported goods to help pay for extending trillions of dollars in tax cuts, an unprecedented shift likely to face opposition from many of his fellow Republicans in Congress….
(Reuters) – E-commerce giant Amazon.com is exiting its operations in Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. The online retailer will phase out operations across seven sites in the province — the only location in Canada with unionized Amazon employees — over the next two months….
By Andy Home LONDON (Reuters) – Nickel ended 2024 trading at four-year lows, a spectacular reversal of fortune for a metal that soared so high in 2022 it almost broke the London Metal Exchange (LME). There is no mystery to this dramatic tale of boom and bust. Indonesia has flooded the world with more metal…
By Rich McKay and Georgina McCartney ATLANTA (Reuters) – An historic January storm dumped more deep snow along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday after bringing Houston and New Orleans to a near standstill over the past two days and burying parts of Florida’s Panhandle with accumulations more typical of Chicago. Another 4 inches (10…
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that he was not worried about the country’s relationship with the U.S. under President Donald Trump. Ramaphosa said he spoke to Trump after his U.S. election victory and looked forward to working with his administration. “I’m not worried about our relations. I spoke…
