In its efforts to stop the proliferation of fake news on Facebook, the company will now ascertain the identity of people who own and run popular pages. The company will audit all “large” pages and any page that fails to clear the identification process would not be allowed to make further postings, said chief executive…
U.S. tech giant Google has claimed that compared to the amount of electricity that all of its global operations had consumed in 2017, the company’s total purchase of renewable energy for the same period was greater. It was a year ago that the company had announced that it had set policies that would allow it…
Even as Russia has bene attempting to discredit the U.K. in its investigations in the alleged Russian links into the poisoning of the former spy in southern England, the U.K. government said that all indications coming out of the investigations point towards Russia. “There is no doubt that we have found nerve agent, that nerve…
The dependency of the world on oil and coal – which are considered to be the main sources for emission of green-house gases is slowly going down in the opinion of the World Bank. “The model has been coal plus renewables, the model can be gas plus renewables. I think 10, 12 years from now,…
The largest retailer of the world – Walmart, is reported to be taking a diversification route after reports of the retailer holding deliberation with health insurer Humana to for an acquisition surfaced recently. According to a news report published in the Wall Street Journal, preliminary talks are being held by the two companies which show…
According to the official figures of the U.K. government, during the end of last year, compared to the eight nuclear power stations that generate electricity in the country, windfarms and solar panels managed to generate more electricity for the first time ever. Driven by the declining use of coal for power generation and the rising…
A controversial investment firm has bought over one of the oldest engineering form in the U.K. for a deal worth £8.1 billion. The efforts to stay independent was ultimately lost by GKN – that has played a role in manufacturing everything from Minis to Spitfires. 52% of GKN shareholders backed the sell-off of the firm…
Chinese IT company Huawei is doing good in all of the global markets that it is operating in except the U.S. where it is facing stiff challenges from the government and others. A profit growth of 28% – totaling $7.3 billion, for 2017 was reported by the Chinese tech company on Friday, in comparison, there…
Amazon.com Inc. has been able to seal support of the millennial shoppers, their parents and most of their grandparents. However, the largest e-commerce firm in the world has not been able to tap one group of potential customers. A big challenge to Amazon is posed by teenagers who are also known as Generation Z. This…
The U.S. and China could end their trade hostilities and it is hoped that an agreement can be reached between the two countries in order to satisfy U.S. President Donald Trump not to impose tariffs on at least $50 billion worth of goods imported from China, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. He said this…
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