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President Donald Trump made big news on January 31, when he met in the White House with top pharmaceutical company executives. Or at least he deserved to make big news, because the issues he raised in the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room will prove to be centra

Google searches and demographic information can be used to influence what adverts are shown to people on YouTube, the video platform has announced.

As a part of its cost-cutting efforts, Seagate has decided to shut down its HDD manufacturing plant in Suzhou, China. The factory is one of the company’s largest production assets and its closure will significantly reduce the company’s HDD out

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This is going to be the year of Amazon Echo and its Alexa personal assistant, if last week's Consumer Electronics Show is any indication. But Microsoft, that other Washington-based tech titan, has its own master plan to conquer the coming market for voice-based assistants and applications.

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As the IIF reported yesterday, in the first 9 months of 2016 global debt rose by $11 trillion, hitting an all time high of $217 trillion, ro 325% of world GDP. Of this increase, the IIF said that China accounted for the “lion’s share” and while China’s relentless debt-funded stimulus continues to

Organizations are not merely interested in developing a mobile app to improve customer engagement. They also want to have a more simplified business processes to enhance employees productivity. B2C

Handing out multibillion-dollar fines right and left to domestic and foreign financial giants, the United States has taken on the role of the unforgiving global cop of the business world.

The best thing Sears has going are the assets, which are being sold to fund operations. The bleeding continues at Sears Holdings, which lost $748 million for the third quarter, it reported Thursday, compared to a loss of $454 million for the third quarter last year. Same store sales and gross

The massive buyout has been cleared by regulators including the European Commission

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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) could soon partner with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to add HBO Now to its Amazon Channels in a three-year deal, according toThe Information.

Year-over-year, MTV is down 11 percent among its core 18-to-34 demographic and has suffered from creative inconsistencies. "MTV has no brand; no one knows what it is," gripes one agent. "It has to be something or it's going to die."

The number of subprime auto loans sinking into delinquency hit their highest level since 2010 in the third quarter. Its behavior much like that seen in the months heading into the 2007-2009 recession, according to data from Federal Reserve Bank of New Yor

Trump's promise to repeal and replace Obamacare just took a big step forward, says Jake Novak.

MAGA comes to Wall Street.

In the last two months, ESPN has lost 1,176,000 subscribers, a subscriber loss nearly the size of the city of Dallas, Texas.

With budgets already tight or broken in a down economy, rising gas and oil prices loom.

Aiming to boost its consumer security business, Symantec is acquiring LifeLock, a vendor of identity protection services, for US$2.3 billion in enterprise value. The deal will create what the two companies described as the worlds largest consumer security

In the wake of the upset victory by Donald Trump last week, a small group of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have raised the prospect of California leaving the United States.