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Amazon to cut prices on hundreds of Whole Foods items this week

The price cuts-which are set to drop at Whole Foods stores on Wednesday-are some of the broadest since Amazon bought the Austin-based grocer for almost $14 bill...

Presenting Burger King's New Beefless "Impossible Whopper"

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Kellogg is selling its Keebler and Famous Amos cookie brands

The company behind Ferrero Rocher and the hazelnut spread Nutella said it would also be buying from Kellogg six food manufacturing facilities across the USA...

McDonald’s reveals the ‘McPickle’ burger - on April Fool’s Day

But unfortunately for pickle lovers the McPickle burger was only created for an April Fool's Day prank. With ketchup, cheese and layers upon layers of pickl...

Lyft shares sink below IPO price

The stock closed at $69.01, below the offering price of $72 a share. "[Lyft's trading] confirms that jumping into IPOs on the first day of trading can be prob...

National Enquirer: Bezos' girlfriend's brother 'single source' for reports

Enquirer parent American Media Inc. has offered an explanation with far less political intrigue: It learned of Bezos' affair from his lover's brother. It includ...

US crude oil hits 2019 high on tight supply

U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures settled up $1.45, or 2.4 percent, at $61.59 per barrel, after reaching their highest in almost five months at $61.72....

Erdogan Pledges to Focus on Turkey’s Troubled Economy after Electoral Losses

Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) have won every vote since the party first came to power in 2002, but they had risked losing Ankara and fac...

Earl Enterprises brands impacted by data breach

The restaurant group has since launched an internal investigation and engaged two leading cybersecurity firms. "The malicious software was created to capture ...

Burger King is market testing a meat-free Whopper from Impossible Foods

While it's seemingly a minor distinction, Burger King and Impossible Foods point out their collaboration marks the first time a coast-to-coast fast-food resta...

Purina recalls wet cat food that may be contaminated with rubber

The recalled product may contain translucent yellow pieces of rubber with a blue backing, which could present a choking hazard to cats. Purina said it became ...

Tata Motors jumps over 8% on expectation of better JLR Q4 results

The company's British luxury auto unit, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), on Friday reaffirmed expectations of a financially better fourth quarter. They believe that t...

Elon Musk drops rap song

Elon tweeted a link to the track, along with another tweet, saying: " I'm disappointed that my record label failed". The announcement came just days after th...

Malaysia's PMI hits three-month low, underperforms Asean

This was just below a flash estimate and the PMI's lowest reading since April 2013. Any score below 50 indicates a fall in business activity. The findings m...

SNP MP: Revoking Article 50 is 'inevitable' to avoid no-deal Brexit

After the vote on the business motion, MPs will debate the options until 8pm where they will make their choices on ballots papers, all results to be revealed ...

U.S. student mistook murderer´s auto for Uber

Seymour Josephson said part of his life's mission will be to educate people on using rideshare services - like Uber and Lyft - safely. "I can't tell you how p...

Australian property downturn spreads as most capital cities record falling values

Dwelling values were down across six of the eight capital cities, with Canberra values holding firm while Hobart values were 0.6% higher. The median price acr...

Manhattan tolls, plastic bag ban approved in New York budget

The billions the tolls are expected to raise will go toward fixing New York City's ailing mass transit system. Similar tolls are already in place in cities in...

Facebook finally explains how it organizes your news feed

Facebook is launching a new feature that explains how its algorithms decide what to display in your News Feed. It's an expansion of sorts to 2014's " Why am I s...

Saudi Aramco profit dwarfed the biggest global companies in 2018

Moody's said the oil giant's revenue hit $355.9 billion a year ago and that it produced 10.3 million barrels per day of crude oil in 2018. At the end of 2018,...

Southwest, Delta reporting system-wide computer outages

Delta said the issue was a "system-wide outage", while Southwest tweeted "this is affecting us on a system-wide level". "In the meantime, once more information ...

Broadband firms will have to compensate customers for delays

Together, the firms that have committed account for more than 95 per cent of broadband and landline customers in the UK. Good news for Broadband users, as a n...

Australia's housing downturn propelled by elite urban areas

Reflecting the sharper price fall for Sydney since the downturn started in 2017, the time taken to save for Melbourne deposits on houses and apartments have o...

SHUTTING DOWN: Warwick's Big W DC to close

Two distribution centres in Monarto South Australian and Warwick Queensland will also close doors. The news comes despite a slight improvement in the performa...

DoorDash driver caught sipping milkshake before delivery

Video shows the man walking up to the door with the milkshake and food in hand and appearing to take a sip from the straw before the front door opens and he han...

Jet Airways pilots defer to April 15 its decision not to fly

A major crisis at the struggling carrier Jet Airways was averted Sunday after its pilots body National Aviator's Guild (NAG) deferred to April 15 its call of ...

White House calls for Fed to reverse US rate hikes

The Fed last week brought a three-year rate-hike cycle to an abrupt end as it abandoned projections for any further increases in borrowing costs this year and s...

Texas Rig Count Slides For 12th Week In A Row

This week's numbers represent the largest weekly rig cut in three years. Saskatchewan's rig count from 3 to 2. Current activity is almost even with that of one ...

Amazon is developing free news app for Fire TV

Epix, the premium TV network owned by Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), has launched its USA streaming service Epix Now for download on Roku devices and Amazon ...

Fuel prices to jump nearly 9% in April

The new petrol price increases come into effect as South African residents brace themselves to deal with an over 9% increase in electricity, which comes into ef...