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Campbell Soup Co missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Wednesday, hurt by declines at its foodservices segment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Google said on Wednesday it is reviewing recent advertisements run by a Myanmar military-backed telecommunications firm and has disabled some army-linked accounts on its services in the wake of the country's coup.

Campbell Soup Co missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Wednesday, hurt by declines at its foodservices segment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Futures tracking the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq dipped on Wednesday as U.S. bond yields ticked higher ahead of key bond auctions while investors cautiously awaited a reading on inflation later in the day amid fears that the economy could potentially overheat.

General Electric Co said on Wednesday Ireland's AerCap Holdings NV would acquire its aircraft-leasing business in a deal that will help reduce the company's debt by US$30 billion.

Apple said on Wednesday it would establish a European silicon design centre in Munich, Germany, and invest more than 1 billion euros (US$1.2 billion) over the next three years in expanding its team there and in research and development.

Facebook said on Wednesday it was launching a "lite" version of Instagram in 170 countries that will enable people with poor internet to access the photo and video sharing social networking service.

Shares of GameStop jumped before the bell on Wednesday, setting the videogame retailer on track for its longest streak of daily gains in six months and extending a rally that has already doubled the company's market value.

MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for its alleged failure to remove banned content and threatened a total block if the U.S. platform did not comply with its deletion demands. The move, which escalates a growing stand-off between Moscow and...

A Russian move to slow down the speed of Twitter will affect video and photo content, and not text content, the Interfax news agency cited a communications watchdog official as saying on Wednesday.