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(Reuters) -Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine worldwide, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its “marketing authorisation”, the report stated. The application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5 and came into effect on May 7, …

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(Reuters) – Tinder-parent Match Group forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as users are likely to dial back spending on dating apps. Match Group – which offers dating apps services such as Hinge, Tinder, OkCupid and Plenty of Fish, among others – has been grappling with slowing revenue due to weaker discretionary …

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By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Apple unveiled its latest iPad Pro on Tuesday with a new chip for artificial intelligence computing as it rushes to catch up with its Big Tech rivals in a race to dominate the emerging technology. Debuting its latest chip in a tablet rather than its Mac laptops is unusual for Apple, …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said on Tuesday it was expanding its suite of generative AI ads products to offer tools that can automatically create variations of images and overlay text atop them. The tool will launch in test form without the watermarks the social media company …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Tesla will suspend production at its Gruenheide plant near Berlin on Friday, the EV maker confirmed on Tuesday following a newspaper report that said the company was shutting down the factory for four days. There will be a “one day planned production shutdown” at the plant on May 10, the factory’s manager, …

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By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) – Livestream shopping where buyers and sellers transact in real-time video is growing in the United States while technology to police counterfeit goods has so far not kept up, a situation that makes it easier for fake goods to flood the market, patent lawyers said. Livestream shopping has been …

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By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -Cruise operator Royal Caribbean Group is in discussions with new and existing markets around the world to recruit thousands of workers to staff its ships and private destinations to keep up with record cruise demand. The number of people taking cruises hit a record in 2023, and with the …

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By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -The Italian government and Lufthansa have submitted new proposals to the European Commission to try to address EU regulatory concerns over the German airline’s purchase of a stake in Italy’s ITA Airways. Lufthansa is looking to buy a 41% stake in state-owned ITA – the successor to Alitalia – but …

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