By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Lucid Group said its second-quarter production dropped from the previous three months while deliveries stayed flat, sending the shares of the luxury electric-vehicle maker down about 12% on Wednesday. The Saudi Arabia-backed startup has been struggling to ramp up production in the face of supply chain issues, while a price war…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Broadcom secured EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its $61 billion proposed acquisition of cloud computing firm VMware after offering remedies to help rival Marvell Technology. The deal, Broadcom’s largest ever, will help the chipmaker diversify into enterprise software. Broadcom offered Marvell and other rivals interoperability…
(Reuters) – Canadian ecommerce firm Shopify said on Wednesday it would soon launch an artificial intelligence assistant for merchants on its platform, the latest technology company to roll out such a feature. The assistant called “Sidekick” would be embedded as a button on Shopify and answer merchant queries, including details about sales trends, CEO Tobi…
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Microsoft cleared major hurdles to its plan to buy videogame maker Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, after a U.S. judge gave a thumbs-up to the $69 billion deal and a British regulator suggested it could reconsider its opposition. Activision shares surged 10% on the day, as the U.S. and Britain have…
BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s Vedanta will enter the market for the manufacturing of chips and displays this year, group chairman Anil Agarwal said on Wednesday, days after its joint-venture partner Foxconn pulled out of the $19.5 billion chipmaking project. Foxconn separately intends to apply for incentives under India’s semiconductor production plan. In an address to the…
By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies is plotting a return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of this year, according to research firms, signalling a comeback after a U.S. ban on equipment sales decimated its consumer electronics business. Huawei should be able to procure 5G chips domestically using its…
By Sruthi Shankar and Medha Singh (Reuters) -A “special rebalance” of the Nasdaq 100 index will take place later this month as exchange operator Nasdaq looks to reduce the concentration of heavyweight companies that account for nearly half of the index’s weight. A blistering rally in growth and technology stocks has lifted the Nasdaq 100…
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exchange operator Cboe Global Markets on Tuesday filed amended applications to list and trade shares of three spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, including one by Fidelity, to add surveillance-sharing agreements with crypto-trading platform Coinbase. Shares of Coinbase closed up 9.8% at $89.15 on Tuesday and hit their highest level…
By Sakura Murakami and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he welcomed that Japan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had agreed on a new partnership programme, ahead of his attendance at the NATO Vilnius summit. At a joint announcement with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, Kishida said…
By Sam Nussey and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank is considering a U.S. listing for its PayPay payments business, three sources familiar with the matter said, in what could mark another American listing for Masayoshi Son’s sprawling tech conglomerate along with chip designer Arm. New York is seen as a more attractive destination than Tokyo…
