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German finance minister sees economic recovery

Bloomberg German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said a slight economic recovery is on the horizon thanks to robust state aid preventing much of the potential fallout of the pandemic, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported. He credited Germany’s fiscal stimulus and the Berlin government’s shift on crisis aid at the EU level with saving jobs, the German newswire quoted Scholz as telling a ...

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Apple, Amazon remove Parler after use in US Capitol riots

Bloomberg Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are removing Parler from their services, part of a growing backlash after the social media network was among those used to organise last week’s riots at the Capitol. Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while Amazon’s cloud unit decided to stop hosting the social media company. They joined Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which removed ...

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Twitter shares fall 6% following Trump ban

Bloomberg Twitter Inc. shares fall 6.1% in pre-market trading after the social media platform permanently banned outgoing President Donald Trump. The San Francisco-based company confirmed its decision in a blog post, saying Trump’s tweets breached policies by risking incitement to violence. It cited Trump’s posts referring to riots in the US capital last week. Mirabaud analyst Neil Campling said the ...

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