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How Canada’s Shopify is weaving AI ‘magic’ to pull in merchants

By Deborah Mary Sophia (Reuters) – Heather Perry made a bold bet before last year’s holiday rush: switch all e-commerce operations of her family-owned roastery, Klatch Coffee, to Shopify. The 42-year-old small business CEO from Southern California was drawn to the Canadian company’s artificial intelligence-based services that automate routine tasks such as generating discounts and …

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Tesla robotaxis by June? Musk turns to Texas for hands-off regulation

By Chris Kirkham and Abhirup Roy (Reuters) – Elon Musk told investors in late January that Tesla would roll out “autonomous ride-hailing for money” by June in Austin, Texas — a state where the company faces almost no regulation, raising questions about how much safety and legal risk Tesla is willing to take on as …

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Looming tariffs turned into a mad dash north for one US manufacturer

By Timothy Aeppel (Reuters) – Stephen Bullock’s phone rang early Monday morning last week at his small factory in North Carolina with an urgent message from his distributor up in Toronto who was rattled by what looked like an unfolding U.S.-Canada trade war. Two of the machines Bullock’s company produces – bulky contraptions used to …

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Boeing signals more orders needed before setting up assembly line in India

By Abhijith Ganapavaram BENGALURU (Reuters) -Boeing signalled on Monday it would need more orders from India before it considers setting up a final civil aircraft assembly line there, potentially throwing cold water on the government’s hopes of the U.S. planemaker assembling commercial jets in the country. “The business case in order to have final assembly …

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T-Mobile, Starlink to launch satellite-based connectivity in July for $15 per month

By Harshita Mary Varghese (Reuters) -T-Mobile said on Sunday it will launch its satellite-to-cell service, powered by SpaceX’s Starlink, in July for $15 a month, as the U.S. wireless carrier aims to eliminate mobile dead zones and extend connectivity to remote areas. Shares of T-Mobile rose about 4% in premarket trading on Monday. The move …

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India’s GAIL revives plan to buy US LNG as Trump ends ban on export permits

By Nidhi Verma and Sethuraman N R NEW DELHI (Reuters) – GAIL India Ltd will seek to buy a stake in a U.S. liquefied natural gas plant or secure long-term U.S. LNG supply after the Trump administration lifted a ban on export permits for new projects, chairman Sandeep Kumar Gupta said. “Their (Washington’s) decision to …

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Australia says its steel, aluminium exports create American jobs

By Kirsty Needham and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s trade minister said its steel and aluminium exports to the U.S. create “good paying American jobs” and are key to shared defence interests, as Canberra presses Washington for an exemption to President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs. Trump said on Sunday he will introduce new 25% …

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