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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened an account on professional networking site LinkedIn on Tuesday, saying he wanted to use it as a way to talk more directly to the business community.

BANGKOK: Thailand's recently appointed finance minister, Predee Daochai, has resigned as the government struggles to pull Southeast Asia's second-largest economy out of a slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The banking veteran took office just last month as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ...

REUTERS: U.S. online wholesale retailer Boxed is exploring strategic options, including a sale or going public through a merger with a blank-check acquisition company that could value it at around US$1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Referred to by some of its customers as ...

REUTERS: Wall Street analysts raised price targets for Zoom Video Communications on Tuesday as its shares were set to hit record highs, while warning that a return to office work could hamper its success in luring small corporate customers. Zoom shares soared 39per cent to US$452 in trading ......

Wall Street analysts raised price targets for Zoom Video Communications on Tuesday as its shares were set to hit record highs, while warning that a return to office work could hamper its success in luring small corporate customers.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will donate US$300 million to help the U.S. election process deal with challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BRUSSELS: It is hard enough developing a vaccine in record time to halt a global pandemic. But what if you need to print the instructions with every dose in Portuguese, Lithuanian and Greek? Drugmakers are asking the European Union to loosen rules that require medicines sold in the bloc...

Uber Technologies Inc on Tuesday said it will roll out a global selfie feature to verify its ride-hail customers wear a mask, modeled after a similar feature introduced for drivers in mid-May.

German lawmakers launched a parliamentary enquiry into the collapse of payments firm Wirecard on Tuesday, a probe that will force the government to reveal more about a failure to avert the country's biggest post-war corporate fraud.

REUTERS: Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it plans to raise up to US$5 billion through a share offering. (Reporting by Akanksha Rana in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)