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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will spend about 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) to support the development of its first quantum computer and related technologies in the next four years, the economy and science ministries said on Tuesday.
FILE PHOTO: German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier addresses a news conference in Berlin, Germany, April 27, 2021. John Macdougall/Pool via REUTERS
The science ministry will spend 1.1 billion euros by 2025 to support research and development in quantum computing, which uses the phenomena of quantum mechanics to deliver a leap forward in computation.
The economy ministry will spend 878 million euros backing practical applications.
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SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - Zhang Yiming will step down as chief executive of TikTok-owner ByteDance, handing over to college roommate, long-time colleague and current human resources head Liang Rubo.
FILE PHOTO: Zhang Yiming, founder and global CEO of ByteDance, poses in Palo Alto, California, U.S., March 4, 2020. Picture taken March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Zhang, 38, turned ByteDance into a social media powerhouse which has also had many brushes with global regulators.
This is a timeline of key events in the emergence of ByteDance and TikTok.
2012 - Zhang Yiming founds ByteDance in Beijing.
2016 - Launches Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
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BEIJING, April 15 (Reuters) - An official of China’s market regulator said on Thursday that the authority will step up inspection in major anti-monopoly cases in accordance with the law, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The regulator will further enhance supervision ability to protect interests of consumers, said Liu Weijun, head of the Department of Certification Regulation at the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR). (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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TORONTO, April 16 (Reuters) - Canadian asset manager Purpose Investments Inc said on Friday that it has been cleared by Canadian securities regulators to launch the first direct custody Ether exchange traded fund in the world.
The Purpose ETF is designed to provide investors with exposure to the cryptocurrency by investing directly in physically settled Ether tokens, Purpose Investments said. In February, the company launched the world’s first Bitcoin ETF. (Reporting by Fergal Smith; Editing by Leslie Adler)