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Researchers Suggest Previous Studies On Smartphone Addiction May Be Flawed

Researchers Suggest Previous Studies On Smartphone Addiction May Be Flawed
Researchers are now suggesting the there are some serious flaws in a large majority of studies and surveys that have been conducted in recent times which examines the impact on the psychological...

Myth Of Positive Health Impact Of Moderate Drinking Debunked In New Study

Myth Of Positive Health Impact Of Moderate Drinking Debunked In New Study
Earlier studies which had given rise to the notion that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke have been negated in the results of a major genetic study which has also claimed a very...

10 Steps To Reduce Cancer Risk Suggested By Global Experts In A Cancer Prevention Report

10 Steps To Reduce Cancer Risk Suggested By Global Experts In A Cancer Prevention Report
The vital relationship between cancer diagnoses and diet, physical activity and weight were confirmed in a new study that examined the lifestyle factors that could prevent cancer. The study was...
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Uber’s Ride Haling Takes Pandemic Hit But Revenue Of Food Delivery Doubles

Pandemic Hit, Hotel Chain Marriot Reports Bigger-Than-Expected Loss For Q2

Increased Delivery Fees During Holiday Season To Be Implement By UPS

Million Posts Sharing Misinformation On Coronavirus Removed By Facebook In Second Quarter

Covid-19 Hit: Cruise Company Royal Caribbean Reports $1.6bn Los For Q2

Apple Set To Become The Second Ever $2 Trillion Company Of The World After Saudi Aramco

Intel’s Chip Performance Can Be Boosted By 20% By Its New Transistor Technology

Anti-China Content In Indonesia Was Censored By ByteDance Till Mid-2020: Reuters

Walmart's Flipkart Partners With Indian Startup To Foray Into Alcohol Delivery: Reports

Google Will Not Respond Directly To Data Requests From Hong Kong From Now On

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Google Will Not Respond Directly To Data Requests From Hong Kong From Now On

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Google Will Not Respond Directly To Data Requests From Hong Kong From Now On

Google Will Not Respond Directly To Data Requests From Hong Kong From Now On

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As a response to the imposition of the controversial national security law in Hong Kong in June this year, Alphabet's Google will no longer conceded to requests for data by the Hong Kong authorities and the company has said it will not provide data. This was announced by the United States based tech giant on Friday.   The US tech giant also added in the announcement that since the sweeping...
Walmart's Flipkart Partners With Indian Startup To Foray Into Alcohol Delivery: Reports

Walmart's Flipkart Partners With Indian Startup To Foray Into Alcohol Delivery: Reports

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Flipkart, Walmart’s e-commerce platform in India will now deliver alcohol to customers. The major rival of Amazon in the Indian market, Flipkart has reportedly already struck a partnership for the deliveries with a startup that has the backing of spirits giant Diageo and deliveries will initially be done in two states in India.   It was a few months ago that Amazon too had planned a...
Intel’s Chip Performance Can Be Boosted By 20% By Its New Transistor Technology

Intel’s Chip Performance Can Be Boosted By 20% By Its New Transistor Technology

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The performance of Intel’s next round of processors could be boosted by as much as 20 per cent by the use of a new method for making transistors on semiconductors, said the chief architect of the new technology on Thursday.   Designing and manufacturing of its own chips is done by the Santa Clara, California-based company and it is one of the few remaining such companies in the world to do...
Anti-China Content In Indonesia Was Censored By ByteDance Till Mid-2020: Reuters

Anti-China Content In Indonesia Was Censored By ByteDance Till Mid-2020: Reuters

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Content that were perceived to be critical of the Chinese government were censored by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance on its news aggregator app in Indonesia between 2018 till about middle of 2020, claimed a report published by the news agency Reuters.    A team from ByteDance's Beijing headquarters instructed the local moderatos in Indonesia to censure and delete any article seen as...
Million Posts Sharing Misinformation On Coronavirus Removed By Facebook In Second Quarter

Million Posts Sharing Misinformation On Coronavirus Removed By Facebook In Second Quarter

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Amidst calls from different quarters to do more to prevent the spread of misinformation on the novel coronavirus pandemic, social media giant Facebook said that more than 7 million posts had been removed by it in the second quarter itself – all related to sharing false information about the novel coronavirus which included content that promoted fake preventative measures and exaggerated cures for...
Apple Set To Become The Second Ever $2 Trillion Company Of The World After Saudi Aramco

Apple Set To Become The Second Ever $2 Trillion Company Of The World After Saudi Aramco

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After a continued rise in its share prices even during the novel coronavirus pandemic, Apple is set to become the first American company to reach a valuation of $2 trillion. This rise of the company also underscored the value of its iPhone ecosystem.   Compared to the lows reached in March, shares of the company have almost doubled in a breathtaking stock market performance that has...
Pandemic Hit, Hotel Chain Marriot Reports Bigger-Than-Expected Loss For Q2

Pandemic Hit, Hotel Chain Marriot Reports Bigger-Than-Expected Loss For Q2

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One of the sectors that has been most severely impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic is the global hotel industry because of travel restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the pandemic.   And now the true scale of the devastation for the industry is coming out as the largest of the hotel chains of the world come out with their second quarter results.   The latest in this...
Covid-19 Hit: Cruise Company Royal Caribbean Reports $1.6bn Los For Q2

Covid-19 Hit: Cruise Company Royal Caribbean Reports $1.6bn Los For Q2

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The cruise industry is one of the worst hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic.   And the quarterly results from the industry are reflecting the massiveness of the pandemic hit.   A net loss of $1.6bn for the second quarter of the year was reported by Royal Caribbean Group, a period during which the cruise operator was forced to cancel all sailings during that period because of the...
Increased Delivery Fees During Holiday Season To Be Implement By UPS

Increased Delivery Fees During Holiday Season To Be Implement By UPS

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A new fee schedule released by the United Parcel Service Inc, it will be charging significantly  higher fees for shipments of packages from large shippers who want to send significantly more packages through its system during the holiday season even as the novel coronavirus pandemic rages on throughout the world.   Operations at UPS and other large delivery firms have been disrupted...
Uber’s Ride Haling Takes Pandemic Hit But Revenue Of Food Delivery Doubles

Uber’s Ride Haling Takes Pandemic Hit But Revenue Of Food Delivery Doubles

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While the trips for ride hailing company Uber increased by 5 per cent in the second quarter from its lows in April, the company’s gross bookings were 75 per cent lower than the same period a year ago. This is the major revenues for the company in the past.   However there was an increase of in orders for Uber’s food-delivery service by almost twice the number year on year during the second...
US Accused By Chinese State Media Of Trying To Steal TikTok

US Accused By Chinese State Media Of Trying To Steal TikTok

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The manner in which the United States is treating TikTok — the very popular video-sharing app that has come in the cross fire of the worsening US-China relations, has been described by the Chinese state media as "nasty" in the last few days.   "The US' decoupling from China starts [with] killing China's most competitive companies," wrote the Global Times, a state-run tabloid, in an...
BP Cuts Dividend By 50% After Huge Losses Due To Pandemic

BP Cuts Dividend By 50% After Huge Losses Due To Pandemic

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The novel coronavirus pandemic hit on the global demand for oil and its prices has forced British Petroleum (BP) to reduce its shareholder dividend by 50 per cent while announcing a quarterly loss of $6.7bn.   For pension funds and private investors, this cut in dividends is another blow as they have been faced with a string of companies slashing or halting payment of dividends.  ...

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UK Set To Cancel Extradition Treaty With Hong Kong, Says British Newspapers

UK Set To Cancel Extradition Treaty With Hong Kong, Says British Newspapers
Taking its dispute and tensions with China a step further, the UK government decided to suspend an extradition treaty that its it had with Hong Kong because of the imposition of the new controversial...

Virus Pandemic Forces Japanese Government To Declare Emergency For Tokyo, Osaka

Virus Pandemic Forces Japanese Government To Declare Emergency For Tokyo, Osaka
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and its surrounding regions over the growing threat of the coronavirus pandemic and warned that capacity...

Study Warns Of Second Waves Of Covid-19 Due To Early Lifting Of Lockdowns

Study Warns Of Second Waves Of Covid-19 Due To Early Lifting Of Lockdowns
According to researchers, a second wave of infection of the coronavirus could be delayed in China by extending the closures of school and work at the ground zero of the pandemic. Researchers also...

Japan's Abe Hints At Postponement Of Coronavirus

Japan's Abe Hints At Postponement Of Coronavirus
It there is a possibility that the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo could get delayed or get postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world, said the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...

Italy Surpasses China In Number Of Coronavirus Deaths

Italy Surpasses China In Number Of Coronavirus Deaths
The number of people who have now died in Italy because of the novel coronavirus outbreak has crossed that of mainland China even as the richest countries of the world announced assistance packages...

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More Than 1,200 Ventilators Donated To California By Tesla CEO Elon Musk

More Than 1,200 Ventilators Donated To California By Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Even though he had initially been skeptical of the coronavirus pandemic, Tesla chief executive office Elon Musk has since helped the authorities in California to acquire much needed medical supplies...

Teenage Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Wants Ot Trademark Her Name

Teenage Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Wants Ot Trademark Her Name
Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is looking to trademark her own name as well as that of her movement as she says that the names are being misused by ‘impostors’ and marketers. This...

Jeff Bezos' Phone Hacking Allegedly By Saudi Hackers Needs To Be Investigated, Says The UN

Jeff Bezos' Phone Hacking Allegedly By Saudi Hackers Needs To Be Investigated, Says The UN
Reports of the alleged use of a WhatsApp account belonging to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for delivering a malware to the mobile phone of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made experts at the...

Facebook's Zuckerberg Will Focus On Long Term Goals Instead Of Annual Ones

Facebook's Zuckerberg Will Focus On Long Term Goals Instead Of Annual Ones
No more annual targets for Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. The co-founder of the largest social media company of the world said on Thursday that he would no longer focus on the...

Japanese Prosecutors Want To Arrest Ghosn’s Wife To Rein In The Former Nissan Boss

Japanese Prosecutors Want To Arrest Ghosn’s Wife To Rein In The Former Nissan Boss
An arrest warrant on charges of alleged perjury was issued against the wife of Carlos Ghosn by Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday in an effort of the prosecutors to bring back Ghosn into Japan and make...

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