Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - April 18

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18/04/2024 06:55

April 18 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories
in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    - Alphabet's  GOOGL.O  Google said it fired 28 employees who
protested this week against the tech giant's cloud-computing
contract with the Israeli government.    
    
    - Oracle  ORCL.N  plans to invest more than $8 billion in
Japan over the next decade to meet the growing demand for cloud
computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in the
world's fourth-largest economy.
    
    - 23andMe's  ME.O  CEO Anne Wojcicki is seeking to take her
DNA-testing company private after three years in public markets
that saw the once-hot company's valuation collapse from a high
of $6 billion.
    
    - U.S. government said it would allow some American and
European oil companies to carry on in Venezuela after its
efforts to coax President Nicolas Maduro into democratic
overhauls by lifting economic sanctions ended in a hardening of
his authoritarian regime. 
        
  
        - U.S. President Joe Biden called for raising tariffs on
imports of steel and aluminum from China, beginning what is
expected to be a broadside of protectionist steps against
Beijing during a presidential election in which trade is a
flashpoint. 
        
  
        - Beijing said it opposes a U.S. probe into China's
shipbuilding industry, calling the investigation a politically
driven move full of "false accusations" and threatening to take
further action.


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