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A man undergoes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a testing site which is temporarily set up at City Hall Plaza in Seoul, South Korea December 18, 2020. REUTERS/Heo RanSouth Korea granted conditional approval on Friday that will allow the public to use two coronavirus self-test kits for the first time, as a surge in…

Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 28, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images US shares fell on Monday as technology shares dragged indexes lower. Investors remain cautious over the slew of corporate earnings ahead as well as the ongoing…

LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom has invested in Celo, a blockchain payments platform that allows mobile phone access to “decentralised finance” projects that allow users to bypass traditional financial firms, the company said on Tuesday.It did not disclose the size of the investment.Deutsche Telekom has also bought an unspecific amount of the Celo…

Topline After a run-up in prices ushering in Coinbase’s long-awaited market debut earlier in the week, the cryptocurrency market plummeted early Sunday after blackouts in China led to massive declines in bitcoin’s mining rates—tanking prices and spurring billions of dollars in liquidations. Key Facts An overnight crash that started late Saturday tanked the total market…

Topline The Dogecoin cryptocurrency surged to an all-time on Friday morning – almost tripling its value in just 24 hours – and is now the seventh largest cryptocurrency in terms of market value. Key Facts As of 9:30 a.m. Friday, the value of Dogecoin had jumped 183% in just the past 24 hours to an…

Good morning and welcome to 10 Things in Tech. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Let’s get started.1. Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online. In the wake of Facebook’s major data leak, LinkedIn is investigating a leak that affected two-thirds of its users. Here’s…

FILE PHOTO: An unmarked A320-214SL Airbus plane is seen on the tarmac at the Airbus factory in Blagnac near Toulouse, France, July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File PhotoPARIS (Reuters) – Airbus reported slightly higher deliveries in the first quarter with 125 aircraft handed over to airlines after a sharp increase in activity in March, company data…

FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers wearing protective suits carry a coffin of a 32-year-old man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as spotlights illuminate the graves during night burials at Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda PerobelliRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the…

WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) – U.S. bankruptcies surged in March driven by a 41% jump in month to month filings by consumers, data firm Epiq AACER reported on Monday.Overall commercial filings also increased, though the Chapter 11 bankruptcy used by larger companies fell, the firm said.U.S. bankruptcies had declined through much of the pandemic year,…

FILE PHOTO: People sit at a cafe that reopened after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were eased, in Istanbul, Turkey March 2, 2021. REUTERS/Cansu AlkayaANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey recorded 41,998 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Sunday, slightly less than a record high it touched a day earlier…