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India firm on decision to impose retaliatory tariff on 29 USA items

India has chose to raise tariffs on imports of 29 goods from the U.S. after having deferred the move several times since announcing it a year ago, media reporte...

Burger King goes full Stranger Things with the Upside Down Whopper

Is Will finally free from its influence? Will Joyce and Hopper ever get together? Now it looks as though fast food chain, Burger King , has joined the hype si...

Wesfarmers acquires online retailer Catch Group for $230m

Wesfarmers has downgraded profit forecasts for the Kmart Group just hours after splurging $230 million buying Catch, an acquisition it hopes will help it better...

Tesco sales fall in 'subdued' market

Although that was a 14th straight quarter of growth and within the range of analysts' forecasts of flat to up 1%, it marked a slowdown from growth of 1.7% in th...

Bags of King Arthur flour recalled due to E. Coli contamination concerns

King Arthur Flour Inc. of Norwich, VT, reported the recall includes 14,218 cases of 5-pound bags of "Unbleached All-Purpose Flour". None of the reported ill...

Sprint and T-Mobile merger could be approved real soon

Last we heard, the DOJ was making quite ridiculous demands of the two wireless carriers in order to approve the merger and DOJ staff were recommending to blo...

'Help to buy' scheme benefits home buyers who don't need help

Auditor general Gareth Davies said: "Help to Buy has increased home ownership and housing supply , particularly for first time buyers". However, about 4% of th...

Amazon and Morrisons expand same-day grocery delivery service

Currently Amazon only sells Morrisons groceries for same-day delivery to subscribers to its Prime Now service in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and parts of ...

Facebook Announces Investment in Indian Start-up Meesho

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Binance to Suspend US Accounts in 90 Days, Additional KYC Requirements Forthcoming?

Since US residents can already actively trade on Binance .com today, crypto enthusiasts are debating the point of Binance .US and are wondering if the new US-...

Mitsubishi Hits the Reset Button on Its Regional Jet Program

As we tend to organize for entry-into-service for the SpaceJet M90, we tend to also are declaring the SpaceJet M100 - the results of our R&D throughout th...

Riot Games is officially under investigation for alleged gender discrimination

According to Kotaku , the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing is requesting that the state's courts compel the company to provide information ...

JUST IN: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to pause controversial extradition bill

Hong Kong is bracing for further student and human rights advocates protests after a tumultuous week where authorities clashed with thousands of demonstrators....

Seven Americans' Deaths in Dominican Republic Raise Fears, Questions

Leyla Cox went on vacation June 5 and was expected to return on June 12. The New York City resident died on June 10, and according to her son, USA officials s...

Facebook cryptocurrency embraced by Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber

Facebook's new cryptocurrency will be pegged to the value of the basket of government-issued currencies, which will enable it to avoid the wild price swings of ...

Lululemon posts strong first quarter, revenues up 20 percent

Norges Bank bought a new position in Lululemon Athletica during the fourth quarter valued at about $161,284,000. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund now o...

PetSmart subsidiary sets share price higher than expected

Chewy generated sales of $3.5 billion in 2018 - up 67 percent from the prior year - as pet owners flocked to the company's offerings of pet food and toys. Chewy...

Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Bank of America

Barclays says the "alternative meat" market could account for around 10 per cent of all global meat sales, or up to US$140 billion, in 10 years. Beyond Meat'...

Fallout Shelter to launch on Tesla vehicles

During a muddled E3 Coliseum chat between rich auto guy Elon Musk and rich Skyrim guy Todd Howard, the latter gave us a tiny detail about Bethesda Game Stud...

No surprise: Huawei postpones launch of folding Huawei Mate X

When the Huawei Mate X foldable smartphone was showcased at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 tech expo earlier this year, the Chinese firm had revealed ...

National Stock Exchange To Remove Jet Airways Shares From Daily Trading

In terms of traded volume, 35.05 lakh shares were traded on the BSE and over three crore shares changed hands on the NSE during the day. ET reported, quoting ...

Hong Kong stocks open with further losses

The Hang Seng Index fell 1.59 percent, or 440.82 points, to 27,348.52, making it the worst performer in Asia on Tuesday. Australia's S&P ASX 200 picked up 0.1...

Iran questions timing of reported attacks on Japan-tied tankers

Each was loaded with petroleum products, and the Front Altair burned for hours, sending up a column of thick, black smoke. Tensions between the U.S. The Kokuk...

19th SCO Summit all set to begin in Bishkek from today

Following the elections, the political commentators said that PM Khan had telephoned his Indian counterpart and congratulated him on his party's victory in th...

App not working as users left unable to refresh feeds — Instagram down

Instagram also displayed a red box with the message, "We're sorry, but something went wrong". Facebook didn't immediately respond to questions about the caus...

Store's bid to shame people out of using plastic bags backfires

Owner David Lee Kwen insists that the idea wasn't actually to embarrass customers, but to make them stop and think about their actions and how they relate to th...

Weather delay cuts projected corn crop to smallest in 4 years

The 2019 milk production forecast was reduced about 500 million pounds from last month's estimate to 218.2 billion pounds. Adding, "We fall back to the law of o...

Huawei Reportedly Demanding Over $1 Billion from Verizon for Patent Licensing

The Wall Street Journal previously reported on the matter, identifying patents that relate to core network equipment, wireline infrastructure, and internet-of-t...

Nevada first state to ban pre-employment marijuana tests

Steve Sisolak last week prohibits, with some exceptions, employers from refusing to hire a prospective employee because the job-seeker tested positive for marij...

Telegram stabilizes after cyber attack

The DDoS attack began targeting Telegram's servers around 12:20 PM - Jun 12, 2019. The company then sent out a series of tweets revealing the cause of service...