Electronics News:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Strong growth in ad sales on Google search and YouTube were not enough to offset a surge in costs at parent Alphabet Inc that shrank the first-quarter operating margin, leaving shares flat after hours on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - An autonomous driving electric vehicle may not take to the sky any time soon but could one day start to look a bit like The Jetsons’ flying car - a glass bubble without the long hood that is a signature feature of todays gasoline-fueled cars.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Monday that it removed or put a warning label on 1.9 million pieces of extremist content related to ISIS or al-Qaeda in the first three months of the year, or about double the amount from the previous quarter.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Top Chinese tech firms and some government departments have been singled out in a report that says discriminatory hiring practices based on gender are widespread in China and are linked to a shrinking proportion of women in the labor force.
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FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Germanys SAP announced upbeat results in the seasonally tough first quarter, saying it was gaining ground on its main competitors Salesforce and Oracle in the cloud and that its margin recovery was firmly on track.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Lilium, a German start-up with Silicon Valley-scale ambitions to put electric flying taxis in the air next decade, has hired Frank Stephenson, the designer behind iconic car brands including the modern Mini, Fiat 500 and McLaren P1.
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