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"The banks are in pretty good shape," US President Joe Biden says during a visit to Canada, following recent turmoil in the US banking system. SOUNDBITE
San Jose, Mar 26 (EFE), (CAMERA: Douglas Marin).- The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for Latin America and the Caribbean of Spain, Cristina Gallach, and the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, Rodolfo Solano, paid tribute Friday to Spanish companies for their contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the Central American country.
San Francisco (US), Dec 12 (EFE).- In 2020: the US Government has sued Google for anti-competitive practices, opening the door to a process which is expected to last for years. It is the symptom of the end of an era for the world's largest tech companies. Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook, which were giants in March, have become titans due to the pandemic. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is the richest person in the world, according to Forbes. His fortune has skyrocketed with Covid-19, as well as Mark Zuckerberg's (Facebook), Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's (Google).SOUNDBITES OF REBECCA HAW ALLENSWORTH, PROFESSOR AT VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL; SHUBHA GHOSH, PROFESSOR AT THE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW; AND MARK MCCAREINS, PROFESSOR AT KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AT AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
Vu Ang Nguyen worked as a selling support associate for Amazon.com in Tempe, Arizona. That gave him the power to manually authorize refund requests. And according to Business Insider, he sure did. A lot. Nguyen was arrested and charged with fraud last week after the company reported him to the FBI. Federal prosecutors say in court documents that Nguyen used his position to issue $96,508 in fraudulent refunds to himself and friends. Nguyen allegedly used eight fake buyer accounts to purchase expensive computers and electronics before issuing more than 300 refunds to the accounts. He then funneled the money to himself and his associates without returning the electronics.
Mexico, Jun 4 (EFE).- Mexican aluminum companies, which move around 15,000 million dollars a year, have begun to reactivate to support their essential customers in the automotive, food, beverage, and medicine sectors during the coronavirus pandemic. (CAMERA: Miguel Ángel Andrade)