Top Canadian banks quit global climate coalition ahead of Trump inauguration
By Nivedita Balu TORONTO (Reuters) -Four of Canada’s biggest lenders said on Friday they were withdrawing from a global banking sector climate coalition, joining six major U.S. banks. The departures from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance began with Goldman Sachs’ announcement on Dec.
Trump taps Penny Schwinn for deputy secretary of education
(Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump said he would name Penny Schwinn, former Tennessee education commissioner, to be his deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. In addition to Tennessee, Schwinn has worked at the Texas Education Agency as deputy commissioner
TikTok stops working for US users
(Reuters) – TikTok went dark in the U.S. on Saturday before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app took effect, cutting off access to the platform that captivated nearly half of all Americans, fueled small businesses and shaped online
Oracle prepares to start shutting TikTok servers from 0200 GMT, The Information reports
(Reuters) -Leaders at Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), the main cloud computing provider for TikTok’s U.S. operations, have told some staff to prepare to shut down servers that host U.S. TikTok data as soon as 9 p.m. ET on Saturday (0200 GMT on
TikTok tells users it will be ‘temporarily unavailable’ in the US on Sunday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – TikTok told users in the United States late on Saturday it would be “temporarily unavailable” on Sunday when a law banning the app takes effect in the United States. Users logging on were met with a message that