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Factbox-Tesla cuts prices globally in a bid to spur demand

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(Reuters) – Tesla Inc has slashed prices of its electric vehicles in the United States and Europe, doubling down on a discount drive it started in Asia as demand slows against the backdrop of a weakening economy. In 2022, the Elon Musk-led company missed its target to grow deliveries by 50% annually as it struggled with supply chain constraints and a demand slowdown caused by growing recession fears. Still, Musk has said the carmaker could deliver 2 million vehicles in 2023 as price cuts boost demand. China-made Tesla car sales rose 18% in January from a five-month low hit in

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Toyota plans to produce 750,000 vehicles globally in February

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday said it plans to produce about 750,000 vehicles globally in February. The Japanese automaker said it aims to make about 300,000 vehicles domestically and about 450,000 overseas, and that it will continue to monitor the supply of auto parts, including semiconductors. Toyota produced 740,996 vehicles globally in February last year, against a target of around 700,000. (Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama; Editing by Christopher Cushing)

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TikTok bans hit more U.S. states; security firm says most access blocked globally

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By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – State agencies in Louisiana and West Virginia on Monday became the latest to ban the use of the popular social media service TikTok on government-managed devices over concern that China could use it to track Americans and censor content. Some 19 of the 50 U.S. states have now at least partially blocked access on government computers to TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. Most of the restrictions came within the past two weeks. Some members of Congress last week proposed a nationwide ban, which would follow countries such as India that

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Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows – study

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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, a survey shows, with fewer than half those questioned believing it posed a “very serious threat” to their countries in the next 20 years. Only 20% of people in China, the world’s biggest polluter, said they believed that climate change was a very serious threat, down 3 percentage points from the previous poll in 2019, the survey by Gallup World Risk Poll showed on Wednesday. Globally, the figure fell by 1.5 percentage points to 48.7% in 2021, it said. The COVID-19 pandemic and concerns

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SoftBank cuts about 150 staff globally -source

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By Anirban Sen, Sam Nussey and Julie Zhu NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp is cutting around 150 staff globally at its Vision Fund unit and SoftBank Group International, a person familiar with the matter said, as CEO Masayoshi Son retrenches following huge loss on his tech bets. Notices are going out to employees on Thursday and will affect around 30% of employees across the two businesses, the person said, declining to be identified as the information is not public. Major cost centres including the United States, Britain and China are affected, the person added. SoftBank declined to

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JPMorgan reduces credit to China’s Tsingshan and metal clients globally

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By Eric Onstad, Pratima Desai and Peter Hobson LONDON (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co has reduced lending to China’s Tsingshan, one of the world’s top nickel producers, while also paring back credit to other customers in Europe and Asia after a review of risk, sources close to the situation said. Tsingshan Holding Group was at the centre of a crisis on the London Metal Exchange in March when nickel prices more than doubled in a matter of hours, forcing the LME to halt trading and cancel billions of dollars in deals. Tsingshan has approached at least two LME brokers

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Healthcare IT Solutions Market size worth $ 515.13 Billion, Globally, by 2028 at 11.13% CAGR: Verified Market Research®

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The Healthcare IT Solutions Market growth is led by telehealth and eHealth solutions, application of cloud technology in healthcare industries, increase in the number of patients suffering from chronic diseases, aging population and other factors. NEW JERSEY, April 12, 2022 — Verified Market Research recently published a report, “Healthcare IT Solutions Market” By Payer Solutions (Pharmacy Audit And Analysis System, Claims Management Solutions, Fraud Management Solutions), and By Geography. According to Verified Market Research, the Global Healthcare IT Solutions Market size was valued at USD 221.41 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 515.13 Billion by 2028, growing

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Curious Thing Positively Impacts Public Safety, Scales Conversational AI Solutions and Connects Customers Globally using the Vonage Communications Platform

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Partnership enabled customer to establish intelligent conversations with 150,000 customers in 10 days at the start of the pandemic HOLMDEL, N.J., April 5, 2022 — Vonage (Nasdaq: VG), a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, today announced that Australia-based startup Curious Thing is using the Vonage Communication Platform (VCP) to scale its solutions and improve customer experiences with automated and AI-enabled proactive customer engagement. Curious Thing is a voice-based conversational AI startup. Its voice AI technology is currently used in proactive call outreach and inbound service augmentation, helping ecommerce, financial services and healthcare providers re-engage with

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HSBC and Overhaul Announce Venture Debt Financing to Fund Future Growth and Expansion Globally

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AUSTIN, Texas, March 24, 2022 — Overhaul, the industry’s first and only software-based, supply-chain visibility, integrity, and security solution for leading enterprises shipping freight globally, today announced that HSBC Bank USA has provided financing to support innovation and growth ambitions into new, global markets. As Overhaul continues to expand within the supply chain space, the company was drawn to HSBC’s global reach and the launch of HSBC Ventures, a new US-based business that provides flexible capital to growth-oriented businesses, as well as those who are developing climate tech solutions and supporting a net-zero global economy. “HSBC has a proven track

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Hundreds arrested globally in New Zealand-led online child abuse investigation

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WELLINGTON – A New Zealand-led global investigation into online child sexual abuse material identified more than 90,000 accounts, led to the arrest of hundreds of offenders worldwide and safeguarded 146 children, authorities said on Wednesday. The collection of of online imagery was discovered in late 2019 when a New Zealand-based internet service provider raised the alarm, sparking a two-year long investigation dubbed “Operation H.” New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Australian Federal Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Britain’s National Crime Agency, Europol and INTERPOL worked together to identify and investigate

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Facebook launches Reels globally, betting on ‘fastest growing’ format

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By Elizabeth Culliford – Facebook is launching its short video feature Reels to more than 150 countries, its owner Meta Platforms said on Tuesday, in a move to expand its fastest growing content format. The social media giant, which recently lost a third of its market value after a dismal earnings report, has highlighted Reels as a key priority. Meta launched Reels on Instagram in 2020 and on Facebook in 2021 as its answer to the explosively popular short-video app TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance. “Reels is already our fastest growing content format by far, and

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