By Casey Hall and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Sales fell for the first time ever at China’s blowout mid-year e-commerce sales festival as consumers remain cautious about spending as the economy sputters, according to third-party data estimates released on Wednesday. Combined gross merchandise volume (GMV), a widely used proxy for e-commerce sales, reached 742.8 billion…
By Guy Faulconbridge and Josh Smith MOSCOW/SEOUL (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin, on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, signed a mutual defence pledge with Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, underscoring just how far Russia has recast its relations with the only country to test a nuclear weapon this century. Putin, who is…
(Reuters) – Dell Technologies is assembling half of the racks for the supercomputer that xAI is building, billionaire Elon Musk said in a post on social media platform X on Wednesday. The U.S. businessman has recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version…
By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Urgent action must be taken in the Red Sea to stop attacks on merchant shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, leading industry groups said on Wednesday, after the sinking of a second ship. Iran-aligned Houthi militants first launched drone and missile strikes on the important trade route in November in what…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair and top Democrat on the House select committee on China will announce Tuesday they are launching a bipartisan working group to reduce China’s dominance of critical mineral supply chains. Representative John Moolenaar, the committee chair, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat, said the new working group will help…
By Shristi Achar A and Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company on Tuesday, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft as its high-end processors play a central role in a scramble to dominate artificial intelligence technology. Shares of the chipmaker climbed 3.7% to $135.87, lifting its market capitalization to $3.341 trillion, just days…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson is facing a new proposed class action seeking damages and medical monitoring on behalf of women who have been diagnosed with cancer, or might develop it in the future, allegedly as a result of using the company’s baby powder and other talc products. The lawsuit, filed on…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Ford shipped out its first batch of cars from the once-ignored Guaymas port near its plant in the northern Mexican state of Sonora on Tuesday, in a project that, if fully launched, could cut its logistics costs by 30%. The initial shipment of pick-ups and Broncos, headed for Chile, is part of…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Monday said it will hold oral arguments on Sept. 16 on legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban. On May 14, a group of TikTok creators filed suit to block the…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday sacked four deputy defence ministers and appointed a relative, Anna Tsivileva, to fill one of the vacancies. Putin sacked deputy defence ministers Nikolai Pankov, Ruslan Tsalikov, Tatiana Shevtsova and Pavel Popov, according to Kremlin decrees. He appointed Tsivileva, who Russian media said is the daughter of…
