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CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian prime minister said on Monday that Microsoft was confident that it could fill the void if Google carried out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia. A Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had since spoken to… Source link

Reuters Brazil to receive 10-14 mln AstraZeneca vaccine doses starting mid-February -health ministry Brazil will receive between 10 million and 14 million doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine starting in mid February through the World Health Organization’s COVAX program, the health ministry said on Saturday. Brazil has had 58,462 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,279 deaths from COVID-19, the ministry said. The South American country… Source link

Benzinga The Upcoming Catalyst That Could Move Chinese EV Stocks Nio, Xpeng, Li Auto Chinese electric vehicle stocks have seen some moderation in momentum in recent sessions. One upcoming catalyst could lift the stocks out of this lackluster phase: the January delivery numbers that are due next week. Finding The Sweet Spot In China’s EV Market: China is a hot EV market, both from the perspective of the addressable market opportunity and supply. “China is a greenfield EV market opportunity for… Source link

Google India pulled down several instant loan apps from Play Store on Thursday for breaching its user safety policies and is reviewing hundreds of similar apps for violation of terms of its Android platform, used by 96% of smartphone users in the country. Many of these app-based lenders were trying to recover a pile of overdue personal loans by resorting to aggressive tactics, including harassment and public humiliation, even as delinquent borrowers grappled with pay… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex pulls out of deal for online bank Tinkoff  PitchBook News & Analysis Source link

Tinkoff, Russia’s leading online bank, has pulled out of a $5.5bn sale to search giant Yandex that would have represented a major shake-up to the country’s tech and finance industries. Yandex said on Friday that “it has not been able to agree definitive transaction terms with the core shareholders of Tinkoff” and that the parties had decided to conclude the negotiations. The collapse ends a year and a half of talks over what would have been a substantial tie-up at a… Source link