The week long trade expo celebration in Havana, Cuba brought it some 50 American businesses, but most of these firms still have no idea how to earn money in the communist-ruled country with a population that has minimum purchasing power.
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Best Buy to hold Pre-Black Friday Sale on Saturday
Best Buy will hold a one day in-store-only pre-Black Friday event on Saturday, offering exciting brands including Samsung, Sony TVs, PlayStation 4, Xbox, and Apple products. Gotta Be Mobile has reported that the sale would be held in 400 locations and buyers can save $70 up to $1,200 on their favorite tech brands. The event will be in a four hour window from 1 p.m. to 5p.m. local time.
Facebook hired 'Roundup' chief executive Lior Gonnen
Facebook hires software engineer Lior Gonnen, the founder and chief executive of Android news app Roundup. Venture Beat reported Facebook brought Gonnen in at their Menlo Park, Californian headquarters.
Merck, Eli Lilly Probed for Alleged Drug over Pricing
The Justice Department launched an investigation on drug makers Merck & Co, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, and Eli Lilly & Co for alleged over pricing. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Attorney's office in Eastern District of Pennsylvania, along with the Justice Department's civil division set a probe on Merck, Eli Lilly, and Valeant on how these drug makers calculate and report their product pricing to the government medical rebate program.
Ugg new classic slim boots collection landed in 'Oprah's favourite things' list
UGG has been marked as one of the leading brands to the shoe fashion market. Recently, it has come up with another of the upgraded idea, which is strongly anticipated to 'win' winters this year.
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Rapes are the major problem encountered by women as well as men. The sense of security is long gone in people starting with the age below 10, ruining the remaining life of innocents.
Philips Electronic Inc. announced the release of a pair of Android smartphones, Sapphire Life V787 and Sapphire S616. The smartphones feature SoftBlue that makes anti-blue screen by reducing 86% of the blue lights emitted.
Lenovo recently announced its strategic partnership with Nutanix, an enterprise virtualization company. Their partnership will develop a hyperconverged applicances for agile and scalable cloud computing. It will be a great benefit for Lenovo who just purchased IBM Intel server division last year.
The significant jump in shares of Facebook and Amazon took them into $300-billion club on 4 October. The market capitalization of Facebook soared to $303.6 billion surpassing General Electric's (GE) $299.1 billion.
Britain has unveiled new surveillance law plans that will allow the police and security services to access the records of internet activity of everyone in the country without any judicial check. The new surveillance powers aimed to keep the country safe.
Target, one of America largest retail stores is closing 13 stores across the United States that has been performing badly over the years. The management blames decreasing profit in these stores as the main reason for the closure.
Amec Foster Wheeler Plc, a British oil and gas services company, has reduced its dividend payout by 50 percent as continuous fall in oil prices puts pressure on customers' spending.
MetLife Inc suffered 43 percent drop in profit for the third quarter due to bleak investment results and tax costs associated with the UK subsidiary which impacted the financial performance of the largest life insurer in the US.
Graphene, one of the atomic forms of carbon, has been widely used to increase flexibility, transparency, and conductivity of electronics application and has begun to reach other application areas.
