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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...

Child Health Fears In UK Gives Rise To Calls For Ban On Coca-Cola's Christmas Truck Tour

Child Health Fears In UK Gives Rise To Calls For Ban On Coca-Cola's Christmas Truck Tour
Sugar allegedly plays an important role in rotting of teeth in children and their obesity, according to the NHS in the UK, and this is the reason that the UK health agency has appealed to local...

Tesla provide Ludicrous Mode retrofit to P90D owners

Tesla provide Ludicrous Mode retrofit to P90D owners
Somehow the car doesn’t feel fast enough without the upgrade. When Tesla introduced Model S P90D that superseded the P85D, owners of the P85D no longer had the best performance version of the...
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Demand Growth In Africa Expected By US Tractor Maker Deere

US Healthcare Firm Athenahealth To Be Acquired By Veritas Capital & Elliott For $5.5B

Sales Warnings Form iPhone Suppliers Force Down Apple Inc Shares

Trade War Lowers Pork, Beef Prices In US, Chicken Industry To Be Hit

Salesforce CEO Again Compares Facebook To Cigarettes, Calls For Stricter Regulations

$21 Billion IPO For Its Japan Mobile Business To Be Launched By Softbank

T-Mobile’s Acquisition Of Sprint Could Be Closed By Q1 Of 2019

Huawei To Rival Google And Amazon In The Voice Assistant Segment Outside Of China

Diversification Investments Result In Uber Loosing Over $1B In Q3

Human Trafficking Victims To Be Employed At Apple Stores In The Future

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T-Mobile’s Acquisition Of Sprint Could Be Closed By Q1 Of 2019

T-Mobile’s Acquisition Of Sprint Could Be Closed By Q1 Of 2019

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Even as a review is being recommenced on the acquisition of US firm telecom form Sprint by T-Mobile US by the regulator Federal Communications Commission (FCC), T-Mobile is hopeful that it would be able to close the deal in the first quarter of next year itself, according to the company’s CFO Braxton Carter.   T-Mobile is hopeful of getting “some early indications of where these regulatory...
Demand Growth In Africa Expected By US Tractor Maker Deere

Demand Growth In Africa Expected By US Tractor Maker Deere

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US company tractor manufacturing firm Deere & Co is eyeing expansion in Africa which would be driven increased demand and expansion in crucial markets such as Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. The company said that it anticipates demand for its products in Africa would help increase its growth rate to 8 to 10 per cent annually in the short term.   According to the World Bank, about 60 per cent of...
Human Trafficking Victims To Be Employed At Apple Stores In The Future

Human Trafficking Victims To Be Employed At Apple Stores In The Future

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A program that would see victims of human trafficking getting behind-the-scenes jobs at its stores has been launched by Apple Inc.   Such victims would be mentored to pass interviews for jobs such as a caretaker or landscaping among others by an NGO which is partnering with the US tech giant.   The company said that the identity of the victims would not be made known to Apple and...
Diversification Investments Result In Uber Loosing Over $1B In Q3

Diversification Investments Result In Uber Loosing Over $1B In Q3

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Investments in bikes, scooters, freight and food delivery business was cited to be the reason behind a more than a billion dollar net loss by the ride hailing company Uber for the third quarter.   Despite still being privately owned, Uber has been published its quarterly performance and financial figures because it is planning on launching of its initial public offerings sometime next...
Huawei To Rival Google And Amazon In The Voice Assistant Segment Outside Of China

Huawei To Rival Google And Amazon In The Voice Assistant Segment Outside Of China

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Chinese tech company Huawei potentially wants to rival the likes of Google and Amazon in the sphere of virtual assistants as the company is working on the development of its own voice assistant which would work outside of China.   Huawei already has a voice assistant that it has developed and sells only in the Chinese market which is called Xiaoyi and which uses a smart speaker called the...
Salesforce CEO Again Compares Facebook To Cigarettes, Calls For Stricter Regulations

Salesforce CEO Again Compares Facebook To Cigarettes, Calls For Stricter Regulations

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While earlier comparing Facebook – the largest social media platform in the world, to cigarettes, tech entrepreneur and billionaire Marc Benioff continued his tirade against the social; media platform in an interview with NBC News.   "I've been saying this now for a while... You look at what's going on with brands like Facebook. Facebook is the new cigarettes. It's addictive, it's not good...
Trade War Lowers Pork, Beef Prices In US, Chicken Industry To Be Hit

Trade War Lowers Pork, Beef Prices In US, Chicken Industry To Be Hit

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A reduction in exports of pork to China and Mexico because of the trade wars by President Donald Trump has forced US consumers to change taste and opt for cheaper pork compared to chicken. The lowered exports of pork products have also brought down its price in the US.   Supplies of pork and beef in the US have also been increased by an increase in the number of U.S. hogs and cattle which...
Sales Warnings Form iPhone Suppliers Force Down Apple Inc Shares

Sales Warnings Form iPhone Suppliers Force Down Apple Inc Shares

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In what was a clear indication of weakness in projected iPhone sale, three of Apple Inc’s suppliers issued warnings on results which drove the shares of the US tech giant to a three month low.   Every new launch of the iPhone from the Cupertino, California, company is making the much loved device costlier and according to analysts, consumers - especially in emerging economies such as...
$21 Billion IPO For Its Japan Mobile Business To Be Launched By Softbank

$21 Billion IPO For Its Japan Mobile Business To Be Launched By Softbank

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Japan’s SoftBank Group is set to launch an the initial public offering for its domestic telecom operations on December 18 this year, the Japanese firm is hoping to raise about 2.4 trillion yen ($21.1 billion) from the IPO.   In a statement issued by the Japanese technology group on Monday, about 1.6 billion shares of the company is being planned to be put up for sale for the public at...
US Healthcare Firm Athenahealth To Be Acquired By Veritas Capital & Elliott For $5.5B

US Healthcare Firm Athenahealth To Be Acquired By Veritas Capital & Elliott For $5.5B

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U.S. healthcare software maker Athenahealth Inc is to be acquired by a joint collaboration between the private equity company Veritas Capital and the hedge fund Elliott Management for a cash value of $5.5 billion, said media reports quoting people familiar with the developments.   The US firm Athenahealth offers services, through its cloud computing systems, to clients to help them track...
Agreements With Ride Hailing, Delivery Firms New Business Strategy In Africa For Car Makers

Agreements With Ride Hailing, Delivery Firms New Business Strategy In Africa For Car Makers

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Car makers have undertaken a strategy of luring tide hailing companies and delivery firms to increase sale in the African market.   For example, Japanese car maker Suzuki Motor Corp has struck a loans and discount deal with the US based ride-hailing company Uber Technologies and South Africa’s Stanbic Bank during the beginning of the current year.   Africa should be a huge growth...
Royal Enfield Expects 2018 Sale To Triple In US Market

Royal Enfield Expects 2018 Sale To Triple In US Market

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The North American business is expected to be doubled for India-based motorcycle brand Royal Enfield by this year and is also setting its eyes to become a dominant player in the middleweight bikes category in the market. This is a market segment that is also being eyed by Harley-Davidson Inc which has already launched a few models in this category to rejuvenate its US business.   The...

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Study Blames Global Warming For Vanishing Snow In Switzerland

Study Blames Global Warming For Vanishing Snow In Switzerland
According to a report from the University of Geneva which was based on a study that made use of a new tool called the Swiss Data Cube that global warming could probably be the reason for the...

Brexit Anticipation Forces Away Medicine Assessment Contracts From UK

Brexit Anticipation Forces Away Medicine Assessment Contracts From UK
According to reports, there has been a collapse of the leadership role of the United Kingdom in evaluating new medicines that for sale in the rest of Europe as now more new work is coming its way....

Private Property And Foreign Investment To Be Made Legal In Communist Cuba

Private Property And Foreign Investment To Be Made Legal In Communist Cuba
Communist Cuba would now encourage and “guarantee” foreign investment and the government would recognize the right to own property by private individuals. There would also no longer be concentration...

Death Due To Worsening Air Quality Could Increase In Australian Cities: Study

Death Due To Worsening Air Quality Could Increase In Australian Cities: Study
A new research claims that there would be more intense temperature inversion events in multiple cities in Australia as conditions of in the biggest cities in the country will worsen in the next few...

New Data Shows Forest Loss Equal To One Football Field Every Second In 2017

New Data Shows Forest Loss Equal To One Football Field Every Second In 2017
New data from a global satellite survey suggests that every second in 2017, there was loss of forest of the size of more than one football pitch throughout the world. The loss for the entire year was...

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US Federal Judge Demands Explanation Of SEC-Musk Settlement, Musk Mocks SEC

US Federal Judge Demands Explanation Of SEC-Musk Settlement, Musk Mocks SEC
Tesla’s Elon Musk is apparently in trouble once against after having mocked the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a few hours after he and the regulator was ordered by a federal...

Musk Will Not Be Tesla Chairman Under Settlement Agreement With SEC

Musk Will Not Be Tesla Chairman Under Settlement Agreement With SEC
In a settlement with the United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Tesla chairman and founder Elon Musk and the company Tesla has agreed to pay $20 million each and the stepping down of...

Analysts Make Varied Predictions On Musk’s Future, Tesla Shares Drop

Analysts Make Varied Predictions On Musk’s Future, Tesla Shares Drop
Even as the share price of the US based electric car maker Tesla dropped significantly after the news that the US SEC has filed a case against company CEO and founder Elon Musk on charges o...

'Exchange Wechat Accounts' Is The Advice Of Coca-Cola Exec For Trump And Xi

'Exchange Wechat Accounts' Is The Advice Of Coca-Cola Exec For Trump And Xi
‘Make like Chinese businessmen and exchange WeChat accounts’ is the advice for a solution for the ongoing trade war between the United States and China given by the Chinese head of one of the world's...

Trump Threatens To Take US Out Of The World Trade Organization

Trump Threatens To Take US Out Of The World Trade Organization
The United States President Donald Trump has warned that if the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the global; organization doesn't "shape up", he would pull the US out of the organizaiton. The US...

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