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[Graphic News] Amazon's Bezos named most powerful CEO

May 29, 2018

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the most powerful CEO in the world, according to a list by Forbes. Larry Page, CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, ranked second, followed by Facebook's Mark Zuckerbu...
[Graphic News] Walmart tops Fortune 500's list

May 27, 2018

Walmart topped the Fortune 500 list for the sixth straight year and Amazon made the Top 10 for the first time. The 64th annual Fortune 500 list ranks America’s largest companies, representing two-...
[Graphic News] Europe car sales speed up in April

May 24, 2018

Car sales in the top European markets rose sharply in April, statistics showed Thursday, confounding fears that a slowdown in the eurozone's recovery might put the brakes on the continent's vehicle ...
Facebook‘s Zuckerberg agrees to live-stream EU parliament hearing

May 21, 2018

BRUSSELS, May 21, 2018 (AFP) - Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to live-stream his meeting with European Parliament members as he answers questions in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica sca...
[Graphic News] Indians most eager for self-driving cars

May 13, 2018

There is widespread interest about autonomous vehicles in India, Malaysia, China and South Korea, according to a survey by IPSOS in selected countries. The poll results show that 58 percent of glo...
Existential debate in US food industry: What is meat?

May 13, 2018

Can a hamburger or steak be labeled "meat" if it is plant-based? That question has sparked a debate about US food labels as key US cattle industry players have sought to crack down on marketing of p...
Facebook thinks 'Likes' can lead to love: Scott Duke Kominers

May 13, 2018

With Facebook confronting calls to do more to protect user privacy as well as existential questions about its purpose in life, the company naturally used its F8 summit last week as an opportunity to ...
Fed leaves rates unchanged, says inflation close to target

May 3, 2018

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged, acknowledging inflation is close to target without indicating any intention to veer from their gradual path of interest-rate increases. “Infl...
Goldman is said to add crypto contracts without trading Bitcoins

May 3, 2018

Don’t call Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s long-awaited Bitcoin-trading business a full-fledged desk, and don’t expect it to buy and sell Bitcoins, at least at first. The bank, preparing to pioneer a new...
[Graphic News] Samsung 5th-most admired firm in Canada

Apr 18, 2018

Samsung Electronics was named the fifth-most admired firm in Canada, an industry tracker said, recovering its reputation tainted by the suspended production of the Galaxy Note 7 in 2015. According...
Is Facebook regulation 'inevitable'? Not so fast

Apr 12, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers that regulation of his company is "inevitable," but still came to Capitol Hill prepared to defend against proposals he thought went too far. He rarely had...
[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...