WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A judge on Friday released a ruling denying the Federal Trade Commission’s request to stop Meta Platforms Inc from buying virtual reality content maker Within Unlimited, rejecting the regulator’s concerns the deal would reduce competition in a new market. A December trial to decide if Meta could go forward with the relatively small…
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The hackers who claimed responsibility for a disruptive breach at financial data firm ION say a ransom has been paid, although they declined to say how much it was or offer any evidence that the money had been handed over. ION Group declined to comment on the statement. Lockbit communicated…
By Jody Godoy and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Elon Musk may become even more emboldened in his Twitter use after a jury cleared the billionaire Tesla Inc chief executive over his missive that he had “funding secured” to take his electric car company private. A San Francisco jury took just two hours to unanimously find…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Activist investment firm Starboard Value LP has amassed a sizable stake in Rogers Corp and is seeking seats on the electronics materials company’s board in its push for changes, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The board challenge comes after chemical company DuPont in November walked…
By Jody Godoy and Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -A U.S. jury on Friday found Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk and his company were not liable for misleading investors when Musk tweeted in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car company private. Plaintiffs had claimed billions in damages and the decision…
By Timothy Gardner and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Western economies agreed new price caps on Friday on Russia’s exports of oil products that U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said would build on the crude oil cap set in December and further limit Russian oil revenues while keeping global energy markets supplied. The coalition imposing…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that new price caps by the West on Russian oil products would build on the crude oil cap set in December and further limit Russian oil revenues while keeping global energy markets supplied. “The caps we have just set will now serve a critical…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The hackers who claimed responsibility for the disruptive breach at financial data firm ION say a ransom has been paid, although they declined to say how much it was. ION Group declined to comment on the claim. It was made to Reuters via Lockbit’s online chat account on Friday. ION was earlier…
By Matt Tracy WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Banks are hoping to quicken the pace of offloading at least some of the billions of dollars of leveraged buyout debt stuck on their balance sheets since last year, on a renewed rally in U.S. junk bonds after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s more dovish-than-expected comments this week. Banks…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A U.S. labor board has cleared the way for 86 technicians at Nissan Motor Co’s Smyrna, Tennessee plant to vote on whether to join a union, rejecting the automaker’s claim that the unit should include thousands of production workers. The Democrat-controlled National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a ruling on…
