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[Graphic News] Facebook scandal affected up to 87m users

Apr 10, 2018

Several million Facebook users in the EU who installed the Cambridge Analytica app and their friends may have been affected by the data leak involving the political consultancy. Facebook said last...
Facebook to send Cambridge Analytica data-use notices Monday

Apr 9, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) -- Get ready to find out if your Facebook data has been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with...
[Graphic News] US-China trade fight escalates over tariffs

Apr 8, 2018

Tit-for-tat trade penalties have escalated between the world’s two-largest economies as they inch closer to the brink of a damaging international economic conflict. The Trump administration on Wed...
[Graphic News] Samsung overtakes IBM for top spot in US patent portfolio

Apr 5, 2018

Samsung Electronics has overtaken IBM as the holder of the most US patents as of the start of this year, data showed. The South Korean tech firm held 75,596 US patents, outdoing No. 2 IBM by nearl...
[Graphic News] Number of Facebook users worldwide rises

Apr 3, 2018

The number of active Facebook users worldwide rose from the fourth quarter of 2015 to the fourth quarter of 2017. Around 1.4 billion users visited the social network daily in the fourth quarter of...
[Graphic News] Singapore named world’s most expensive city

Mar 28, 2018

The eye-watering cost of owning a car in space-starved Singapore means the city-state is the world’s most expensive place to live - for a fifth year in a row - according to the Economist Intelligenc...
[Graphic News] Mongolia suffers highest unemployment in Asia

Mar 27, 2018

Mongolia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Philippines have the highest unemployment rates in Asia. By contrast, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos have posted the lowest unemployment rates. Mongolia has the high...
[Graphic News] E-commerce toy sales

Mar 21, 2018

Toys R Us, the iconic retail chain that has captivated American kids for generations, announced plans to shut all of its US stores, becoming one of the biggest casualties of the retail shakeout amid...
[Graphic News] Nearly 1 out of 5 guests in S. Korea were from US in 2017: Airbnb

Mar 18, 2018

Airbnb said that 18 percent of all tourists who used the global room-sharing platform in South Korea last year were from the United States. A total of 113,700 US tourists stayed at Airbnb-listed r...
Toys R Us said to be planning to liquidate its US operations

Mar 15, 2018

Toys R Us appears headed toward shuttering its US operations, spelling an end to a chain known to generations of children and parents for its sprawling stores and Geoffrey the giraffe mascot but that...
Donatella Versace says label will stop using fur in products

Mar 15, 2018

Donatella Versace has said her family's luxury fashion label will no longer use real furs in its products, according to an interview with a British magazine. The Italian fashion queen and Versace's ...
[Graphic News] Bezos tops Forbes world's rich list

Mar 12, 2018

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who slipped to second place, according to Forbes magazine's annual billiona...
[Graphic News] Main sources of US steel, aluminum imports

Mar 11, 2018

Last week, President Donald Trump said the US would impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum. Last year, US imports of steel, iron and ferroalloy jumped 38 percent o...
Cigna and Express Scripts in $67 bn health merger

Mar 8, 2018

NEW YORK -- Health service provider Cigna said Thursday it had reached an agreement to acquire pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts in a cash and stock deal worth approximately $67 billion (54 b...
[Graphic News] Global cybercrime costs $600b annually: study

Mar 7, 2018

The annual cost of cybercrime has hit $600 billion worldwide, fueled by the growing sophistication of hackers and proliferation of criminal marketplaces and cryptocurrencies, researchers said Wednes...