American farmers could become the first casualties of a tariff regimen if the Trump administration continues to impose such tariffs in a rash manner on Chinese goods, leaders of a forum for agriculture in the U.S. state of Iowa has warned late last week. “We’re in limbo. This is a very bad time for agriculture,”…
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…
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…
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…
A new Kaiser Permanente research published today in JAMA Pediatrics claims that compared to the general populations, it is most likely that complete vaccination would be possible for children who have autism and their younger siblings. “In this large and comprehensive study, we found that after children received an autism diagnosis, the rates of vaccination…
Following retailing company Next describing the last fiscal to be the most challenging in the last 25 years, the company reported a fall of 8% in its yearly profits. 2017 was the second consecutive year for the company when profits declined as the company reported pre-tax profits dropping to £726.1 million in the 12 months…
There are many companies that are now engaged more and more in a race in the market where that deals with manufacturing of perfect hardware for accelerating applications using artificial intelligence. A new market research report from Tractica claims that significant progress has been made in compute – one of the three key parts of…
An indictment has been ordered against the chief executive of a company that manufactured some of the highly-secure smartphones which were allegedly made use of in crimes by some of the most noted criminals of the world. Investigators said that criminal organizations such as the Sinaloa Cartel used the modified Blackberry smartphones that were sold…
The first consecutive loss in two years in its 71-year old history was noted by Cathay Pacific Airways after the airways posted losses of HK$1.25 billion (US$160 million) in 2017 which is double that of the previous year. Cathey Pacific is the largest international airline of Asia. Analysts however said that the results were better…
Americans were identified to be a less happier lot despite their economy now doing well while the happiest country in the world was adjudged to be Finland according to an annual survey issued on Wednesday. Based on parameters of absence of corruption, generosity, social freedom, healthy life expectancy, GDP per capita and social support among…
