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Hindustan Unilever to merge with GSK Consumer Healthcare

British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline announced two multi-billion-dollar deals on Monday - the sale of its Asian health drinks unit to Anglo-Dutch food...

Amazon Go: Bigger cashierless stores reportedly being tested

You scan the Amazon Go app on your phone as you arrive, pick up items while monitored by the store's cameras and you're charged via your Amazon account as you...

Ted Baker staff demand end to boss Ray Kelvin's 'forced hugging'

It is part of a culture that leaves harassment unchallenged. It goes on to claim that the company's human resources department dismissed complaints about Kelvin...

Donald Trump, Xi Jinping Agree To Trade Truce At G-20 Summit

It made the announcement after US President Donald Trump met China's President Xi Jinping for the first time since a trade war erupted this year. During...

Oil prices surge ahead of OPEC meeting

It is expected the outcome of this week's OPEC meeting will result in a supply cut, which would be aimed at reining in emergent oversupply. At press time, WTI...

Qatar to quit OPEC

The announcement came several days before a December 6 OPEC meeting. "Qatar has chose to withdraw its membership from OPEC effective January 2019", Kaabi said...

Bush's service dog will go on to help other soldiers

Bush. "It was truly an honor to have provided service dog Sully to be by the president's side for the past several months". Jim McGrath, Bush's spokesman, p...

Notley to announce next steps for dealing with oil backlog on Sunday

Notley's proposal is one of several put forward by government and industry officials to boost Canadian oil prices by increasing the amount that can flow to refi...

Trump Ready to Terminate NAFTA

As he left the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Trump told reporters on board Air Force One that he plans to terminate the current NAFTA agreement, meaning Congres...

Google employees and Amnesty International protest against search engine Dragonfly

Google employees argue that the Chinese government can use Dragonfly technology to stifle freedom of expression and suppress dissent through surveillance. The...

Crypto Markets Getting Their Mojo Back?-P.BCHAIN-P

In just a matter of 24 hours, the entire crypto market was able to gain $20 billion. The sudden increase in the price of BTC , the abrupt 35 percent declin...

Japan-France spat over Nissan-Renault brews as Ghosn remains jailed

Prosecutors have been given leave to keep him in custody until December 10. Prosecutors may hold Ghosn for up to about three weeks without a charge, and in that...

Oil prices fall amid further fears of oversupply

However, OPEC members, alongside Russian Federation would be meeting on December 6th-7th in Austria for discussing the terms of "cut supply" to support the ...

New Mazda3 debuts all-wheel drive

Mazda design chief Ikuo Maeda told the website that he doesn't want upcoming electric vehicles to "look digital ", and meant that he would like the electrified...

Canada Post considering 'legal options' amid protests at sorting facilities

There have been similar acts of solidarity at facilities across the country since the legislation was ratified on Monday (Nov. 26), which prompted Canada Post t...

GM appoints new Cruise Automation CEO amid increasing pressure to deliver

General Motors (GM) and Cruise are taking the next step toward commercializing autonomous vehicle technology with the appointment of Dan Ammann as CEO ...

Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled fined for promoting initial coin offerings

The producer and boxer were paid $50,000 and $100,000 respectively from Centra Tech Inc . for promoting the company and it's ICOs. Khaled was paid $50,00...

Bank of England's summer party cost £100,000

Prices of offices, warehouses, malls and hotels could drop as much as 48 per cent if the United Kingdom crashes out of Europe without a deal, more than the 42 p...

Protesters block entrance to Halifax Canada Post facility Friday morning (3 photos)

The local postal workers union is not happy about having its members ordered back to work. The gesture comes after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers held...

Deutsche Bank offices raided in money laundering probe

The raid was a new blow to the financial institution that has been hammered by a string of scandals linked to its pre-2008 crisis attempts to compete with W...

Tesco and Volkswagen partner to provide the largest EV charging network

The chargers will be available for drivers of any plug-in vehicle from all manufacturers, not just Volkswagen . A company called Podpoint will build the chargi...

Sterling slides with UK Brexit vote in doubt

While the dollar has been stealing some of the limelight this week due to Powell, due to a black-out of Brexit negotiations that we had so gotten used to, yeste...

Autonomy co-founder to face United States criminal charges

Figures were also allegedly presented to portray Autonomy as a money-making software business. It is alleged the pair, along with Hussain, lied about the true...

£25.25 property disposal at intu

The site has a Gross Internal Area (GIA) of 75,186 sq ft on a total site area of 5.02 acres. Intu refused to accept Ashley's desired rent reductions on severa...

US, China declare 90-day halt to new tariffs, White House says

Mr Trump also said that if talks were unsuccessful, he would carry out a threat to hit the remaining $267bn of annual Chinese exports to the U.S. with tariffs o...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled hit with SEC ICO charges

Mayweather agreed to a $300,000 fine and to forfeit an additional $300,000 representing his gains from touting Centra and two other token sales, the SEC sai...

Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'

A spokesperson for Lockheed Martin said: "It supports and boosts leg capacity for physically demanding tasks that require lifting or dragon heavy loads, repetit...

In China, your auto could be talking to the government

At the Shanghai Electric Vehicle Public Data Collecting, Monitoring and Research Centre, a wall-sized screen glows with dots. Nationally more than 1.1 million a...

Nissan Reveals The Leaf Nismo RC Electric Race Car

You might remember the first Nissan Leaf NISMO RC racer from back in 2011-now there's a new version that its maker claims is more than twice as powerful. As o...

Feces found on McDonald's touchscreens in UK

McDonald's on London's Oxford Street. "These cause the kind of infections that people pick up in hospitals", explains Dr Paul Matewele from London Met. Another...