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REUTERS: Alphabet Inc's YouTube is rolling out its version of social media rival TikTok, a new short-form video service called Shorts, enabled within its video-sharing platform. YouTube will first test the feature in India over the next few days and then expand to more countries in the coming ......

The US government has received a bid from Oracle for TikTok's American operations after the video-sharing app's parent ByteDance rejected a proposal from Microsoft, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday.

SINGAPORE: The authorities on Monday (Sep 14) announced guidelines to help dormitory operators and employers come to a mutual agreement on their existing rental contracts.  This comes amid the option for employers to rehouse their workers in order to comply with the COVID-19 safe restart criteria ...

Verizon Communications Inc said on Monday it will buy pre-paid mobile phones provider Tracfone, a unit of Mexican telecoms giant America Movil, in a US$6.25 billion cash and stock deal.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said earlier in the day that the Trump administration received a proposal from Oracle over the weekend to make Chinese-owned short video app TikTok a U.S.-headquartered company and will review the plan this week.

The chief executive of European planemaker Airbus has warned staff it may have to carry out compulsory layoffs after air travel failed to recover as quickly as anticipated from the coronavirus crisis, a letter seen by Reuters showed.

An Indian court's decision to stall the release of a Netflix series on four Indian tycoons facing fraud allegations "freezes free speech" and hurts the company financially, the U.S. streaming giant has argued in a court filing seen by Reuters.

The chief executive of European planemaker Airbus has warned staff it may have to carry out compulsory layoffs after air travel failed to recover as quickly as anticipated from the coronavirus crisis, a letter seen by Reuters showed.

Delta Air Lines said on Monday it is seeking to raise US$6.5 billion through new bonds and loans backed by its SkyMiles loyalty program, further bolstering liquidity to weather a drastic downturn in travel demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shares of Nvidia Corp rose 6per cent on Monday after it announced a US$40 billion deal to buy UK-based chip designer Arm from Japan's SoftBank Group Corp that, if completed, would be the chip industry's biggest ever merger.