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Lenovo Third Quarter Profits Plummet

Tech company Lenovo posts a drop in its third quarter profits as it faced "sizeable" challenges in its business.

Retail Spending in UK Rises Slightly in January

UK retail spending sees 1.5 percent growth year-on-year in January 2017 compared with January 2016.

CBS Corp Posts 45.6 Percent Drop In Quarterly Profit

Mass media company, CBS Corporation, posts quarterly profit decrease.

Toshiba chair quits hours after conglomerate reveals $3.4 billion loss

Toshiba's chairman steps down shortly after the Japanese multinational conglomerate reported a multi-billion-dollar loss.

Energy giants plan to help 10 million people with new loyalty program

Npower and EDF Energy told MPs they were considering reward programs to help customers who stay with them, it could even include a free boiler service.

Apple Ends Losing Streak, Posts Rise In Sales After Nine Months

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company had the highest quarterly revenue ever, adding they have also returned close to $15 billion to investors through share repurchases and dividends.

Amazon to Build Its Own $1.5 Billion Air Hub For Its Own Cargo Airline

Online giant, Amazon, is expanding fast and creating thousands of jobs in the United States, its Prime Air hub will support its dedicated fleet of Prime Air cargo planes.

Dow Jones Industrials Average Crosses 20,000 Mark For The First Time

Sense of Unease Permeates Wall Street With Trump's New Policies

President Donald Trump is starting to worry Wall Street with the major changes in foreign policies. Economic isolation may result in these changes.

Swedish Retailer H&M Big Gainer in 2016

The last fiscal year was good for H&M, there was a strong expansion in sales and profits, the company opened 427 new stores and it added more than 13,000 new workers.

President Trump Signs Executive Order In Oval Office Of The White House

Trump Signs Executive Order to Reduce Regulations Affecting US Businesses

US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to slash the number of regulations affecting US businesses.

Top 10 U.S. sanctuary cities face roughly $2.27 billion in cuts by Trump policy

U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to strip municipalities of federal dollars for shielding illegal immigrants threatens $2.27 billion in annual funds for the nation's 10 largest cities, a Reuters analysis of federal grants found.

Trump expected to launch measures to curb illegal immigration

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to begin signing executive orders aimed at curbing illegal immigration on Wednesday, beginning with a directive to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and another to boost personnel needed to crack down on illegal immigrants, congressional aides with knowledge of the plan told Reuters.

China says will protect South China Sea sovereignty

China said on Tuesday it had "irrefutable" sovereignty over disputed islands in the South China Sea after the White House vowed to defend "international territories" in the strategic waterway.

A worker at an oil field owned by Bashneft, Bashkortostan, Russia

Oil and Trump: Russians full of optimism in Davos

A year ago russians felt depressed because the price of oil plummeted and the West imposed sanctions, but today the price of oil has increased and soon Trump will ease the sanctions.

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Feel anxious? Have trouble sleeping? You may be traveling for business too often

People who travel for business two weeks or more a month report more symptoms of anxiety and depression and are more likely to smoke, be sedentary and report trouble sleeping than those who travel one to six nights a month, according to a latest study conducted by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and City University of New York.

Trump declares emergency on southern border

President Trump said Friday he is declaring a national emergency on the southern border, tapping into executive powers in a bid to divert billions toward construction of a wall even as he plans to sign a funding package that includes just $1.4 billion for border security.

Mix Reactions over Amazon Retreat on Long Island City

Amazon's decision to abandon plans to build a new campus in Long Island City, Queens, has drawn cheers from several politicians, community organizers and other locals opposed to the expansion.

Wall Street heavyweights on Cortez's proposed 70% super-rich tax

One of the hottest topics at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has been Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposed 70% marginal tax rate on all income above $10 million.

Does the presence of colleges and hospitals increase home prices?

Whether the presence of a college or hospital increases a home's value has to do with the institution's size and the ZIP code's population, says a new study by computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside.

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The 2008 recession associated with greater decline in mortality in Europe

In recent decades, Europe has experienced a downward trend in the annual number of deaths. Not only was this trend not arrested by the economic recession that started in 2008, in fact, the rate of decline increased during the recession years.

'Unclonable' tag combats counterfeiters

Discovering that your new designer handbag or gold watch is a fake is costly and annoying, and counterfeit medical devices or drugs could have even more serious consequences. But seemingly as soon as manufacturers develop a new method to ensure product authenticity, counterfeiters find a way to outsmart it. Now, researchers have created an "unclonable" tag that can never be replicated, even by the manufacturer. They report their results in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

When the insurance company monitors your driving in real time does it help?

The traditional model for setting auto insurance premiums has been to base rates on the motorist's driving history, age, gender and even marital status (in some states). Thanks to new technological options, insurance companies, and motorists have started to work together to give the insurance companies access to better data on an individual driver's risk level, and give the same driver a sense of greater control over how much he or she will pay in insurance premiums.

Can machine learning deliver critical market insight on consumer needs faster and cheaper?

Consumer brands have long used old-fashioned focus groups, interviews and surveys to best gauge consumer wants, desires and needs as part of processes that range from product development, to marketing and sales. As machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged, there is an increasing interest in the ability to harness these solutions to save time and money, and to yield more reliable consumer insights.