According to a statement from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, a man who attempted to enter the country from Brazil travelling on a French passport was detained as an imposter at Washington, D.C.’s Dulles airport with the help of a newly installed facial-recognition technology. It was just three days ago that the airport had…
According to reports, acronyms that are common in text speak, including “WTF”, have been applied to be trademarked by Proctor & Gamble. If the application is successful then the company would be able to include in its marketing and selling of its products expressions including “LOL” (Laugh Out Loud) and “NBD” (No Big Deal). Application…
There can be a big threat to the US economy from the escalation of a trade war, according to warnings from the US Federal Reserve. But the central banker is not ready to buck down to pressures and comments form US President Donald Trump against raising of interest rates and wants to continue with its…
Websites in Europe may have to delete extremist content on their sites within an hour or face a fine according to a plan by the European Commission. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube among others are one who would be impacted by such a regulation. Such a regulation would be a shift by the EU away from…
A Wall Street Journal report claimed that an offer by Turkey to the United States of releasing detained American pastor Andrew Brunson if the US investigations against Turkish bank Halkbank is halted was turned down by the Trump administration. The proposal, according to the report, was dropping off of terrorism charges against the American pastor…
American could end up paying more for virtually everything they use in their daily lives – from cradles to coffins, if US president Donald Trump goes on to impose the threatened tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports, claimed a broad cross-section of U.S. businesses. While the earlier list for tariffs were drawn up carefully…
Growth is being given predominance over profit by Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi just like his predecessor. But because the ride-hailing service has reached a global scale, therefore it is finding it difficult to make growth gains. A second-quarter loss of $891 million was recently reported by Uber. While the loss is…
US retailing giant Walmart reported a 40 per cent increase in its online sales in the last quarter which drove its overall revenues to $128bn for the period. There was jump of 10 per cent in share of the company at the New York stock market. “We’re leveraging stores and e-commerce to make shopping faster…
Goldman Sachs says that Intel is facing a big problem with the issues in technology for manufacturing chips. The repeated delays in graduating itself to the manufacture of next generation chip process technologies resulted in the lowering of the rating for Intel by Goldman to sell from neutral. “We see Intel’s struggles with 10nm process…
In the first ever claims ruling about the Roundup weedkiller of the chemical giant Monsanto causes cancer, the US firm has bene ordered to $289 million in damages to a terminally ill school groundskeeper. The ruling came in favor of Lee Johnson by a San Francisco state court where the jurors discussed the case for…
