MOSCOW (Reuters) - OneWeb, the satellite firm rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group, resumed flights on Friday in its push to provide global broadband coverage as 36 of its satellites blasted off into orbit from Russia's Far East. The launch carried out by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate was...
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged a China-based executive at Zoom Video Communications Inc with disrupting video meetings commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square (NYSE:SQ) crackdown at the request of the Chinese government. Xinjiang Jin, 39, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of conspiring since January 2019 to use his company's...
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By Jack Stubbs (Reuters) -Suspected Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source. More details were revealed on Friday of the cyber espionage campaign that...
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing officials "inappropriately coached" test pilots during recertification efforts after two fatal 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people, according to a lengthy congressional report released on Friday. The report from the Senate Commerce Committee Republican staff raised questions about testing this year of a key safety system known as MCAS tied to both fatal crashes was contrary...
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By Chandini Monnappa and Sankalp Phartiyal BENGALURU/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) supplier Wistron's Indian factory in Karnataka state could not cope up with the rapid scaling up of manpower and breached several laws, a government inspection has revealed following violence at the site last weekend. Several thousand contract workers at Wistron angered over alleged non-payment of wages destroyed property, factory...
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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada and Britain are on the verge of a deal to ensure that free trade between the two, post-Brexit, can continue until the Canadian Parliament approves a new bilateral agreement, according to four well-placed sources. The two sides are discussing a bridging mechanism allowing them to temporarily waive tariffs, the sources said. This would likely take...
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By Allison Lampert and Jamie Freed (Reuters) - Boeing (NYSE:BA)'s 737 MAX is set to return to the skies in Canada with a local twist in the cockpit, after Ottawa became the last major Western regulator to lift a 20-month safety ban. Small print in Thursday's Transport Canada announcement sheds light on a regulatory split over the use of a less common...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected Russian hackers have compromised only a small number of organisations in Britain after hijacking software updates issued by U.S. IT firm SolarWinds Corp, a UK security source said on Friday. "Numbers in the UK are small and the organisations are not in the public sector," the source said. ...
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(Reuters) -Fashion retailer Next is in talks with American investment firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management for a joint bid to gain control of Arcadia fashion group, which collapsed into administration last month, Sky News reported on Friday. The two companies were "likely, but not certain" to bid for Arcadia ahead of a revised deadline next Monday, the Sky News report added, citing...
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Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrial Transportation, Oil Equipment Services & Distribution and Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs sectors propelled shares lower. At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.35%. The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Hikma Pharmaceuticals ...
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