By Yuvraj Malik and Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ newest social media offering Threads has over 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Wednesday, ahead of its first anniversary. A challenger to X, formerly known as Twitter, Threads hit app stores on July 5 last year, timed to win users from…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Wednesday it would discontinue its security robot, Astro for Business, for small- and medium-sized businesses as it shifts its focus to household robots. The e-commerce giant initially launched the canine-like robot for household use in 2021. Astro for Business was launched last November for a range of customers including retail, manufacturing,…
By Ismail Shakil and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House dismissed as “absolutely false” a New York Times report on Wednesday that said U.S. President Joe Biden had told an ally he was weighing whether to continue his bid for reelection in November. The report was based on a conversation the Times said Biden…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Walmart must face a lawsuit claiming it often charges higher prices at the register than it posts on store shelves, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Reversing a lower court judge, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago…
