By Jeffrey Dastin LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company’s voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else. The online retailer is developing a system to let Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, said Rohit Prasad, …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s top insurer Generali said on Wednesday it would create a new organizational structure at group level, designed to fully support the delivering of its 3-year plan, which was unveiled in December. Under the new structure, effective from Sept. 1, current country manager for Italy, Marco Sesana, is appointed General Manager in …
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By Hyunjoo Jin San Francisco (Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s new car factories in Texas and Berlin are “losing billions of dollars” as they struggle to increase production because of a shortage of batteries and China port issues, Chief Executive Elon Musk said recently. “Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now. Okay? …
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(Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Wednesday it had started laying off employees in its mortgage business, as elevated inflation and rising mortgage rates slow the housing boom in the United States. More than 1,000 employees will be affected and about half of them will be moved to different divisions within the bank, according …
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MILAN (Reuters) – The Italian government has chosen the offer of Internet operator Fastweb and web hosting provider Aruba to create a cloud-based infrastructure for the country’s public administration data. The infrastructure, called the National Strategic Hub (NSH), is part of the Italian government’s strategy to accelerate a digital transformation and guarantee national data security …
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ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s Senate said on Wednesday it will investigate oil company Shell Plc over alleged illegal extensions of oil exploration leases and is seeking a refund of $200 million which it said accrued over the period. The upper house of parliament said a seven-member committee has been mandated to investigate oil exploration leases granted …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Swedish truckmaker Volvo and Paccar’s DAF Trucks can be sued for compensation by a Spanish claimant over a truckmakers’ cartel, Europe’s top court said on Wednesday, in a ruling that could spur more claims against the cartel members. Both companies, Daimler and Italy’s Iveco were fined a record …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England will “act forcefully” to combat rising prices, British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday, as data showed UK inflation had hit a new 40-year high of 9.1% in May. “I want people to be reassured that we have all the tools we need and the determination to …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s second-highest court on Wednesday dismissed Ryanair’s challenge against EU approval for millions of euros in state aid granted to rival Finnair. “The action seeking annulment of the decision by the Commission to approve aid granted by Finland to the airline Finnair is dismissed in its entirety,” the Luxembourg-based General Court said. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British house prices in April were 12.4% higher than a year earlier, the second-biggest annual rise in figures going back to 2006, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. The big price rise bucks signs of a slowdown in other measures of house prices, and is the largest annual increase in …
