A better picture of U.S. President Donald Trump’s direction on key policies that he has yet to spell out is hoped to be obtained by Europe, Japan and Canada in a G7 meeting in Italy this week. Inequality, international tax rules, cyber security and blocking the funding of terrorism would be the focus of the…
Attention is increasingly turning to the region’s shaky civil liberties plight at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) even though economic integration has long been the focus of this group. A group of experts shared their dreams for the bloc and human rights emerged as a common denominator at a World Economic Forum (WEF) discussion…
Distrusted due to its close ties with China, Foxconn has to tread carefully and bridge its American business ties with its Communist friends. Less than two weeks after Terry Gou, the CEO of the world’s largest contract electronic manufacturer went to the White House to discuss boosting its investment plans in the U.S., Chinese Premier…
He was earlier the deputy FDA commissioner under the George W Bush administration. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm the appointment of Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a venture capitalist and a conservative health policy expert, as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). During the George W Bush administration, Gottlieb, a physician,…
A surge in automated customer service programs as companies move to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated by a new research which could end up by chatbots helping in trimming of business costs by more than $8 billion per year by the year 2022. The market research study which was published Tuesday from analysis firm…
While capping sales of conventional cars, signaling a dramatic shift in policy in one of the world’s fastest growing auto markets, lowering taxes and interest rates for loans on electric vehicles, have been recommended by India’s most influential government think-tank, reports the news agency Reuters. Using tax revenues from the sale of petrol and diesel…
The effect of Brexit is steadily having an impact on the British economy. As per the results of a survey, British shoppers are increasingly looking for bargains to offset rising inflation with employers finding it difficult to recruit migrant workers. These trends are a result of 2016’s Brexit referendum. As per the British Retail Consortium,…
Google Home is fast catching up. As per research firm eMarketer, Amazon’s voice-controlled speakers are dominating the nascent market of voice-controlled speakers. As per the results of its study, Amazon Echo and Echo Dot devices have grabbed 70.6% of the U.S. market in 2017. These speakers feature Amazon’s Alexa, its voice-controlled assistant which allows consumers…
As it redirects its attention to battery-powered vehicles and emerges from the 2015 diesel emissions scandal the Volkswagen car brand said it is confident it will “leapfrog” the competition and become a leader in electric cars by 2025. It would target 1m electric car sales by 2025, said the VW brand, by far the biggest company in…
A very recent and wide-ranging study in Britain has revealed how the technology is helping smokers to give up harmful tobacco even as the United States cracks down on rules governing e-cigarettes. In the United States, the sales of e-cigarettes, cigars as well as pipe and hookah tobacco will now also be governed by the…
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