The recent survey from Reuters shows that U.S. universities are the home of the most innovative projects. Though Asian universities have been fairly competent with universities from Korea, Japan, Singapore, and China.
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Investors demand antibiotic-free meat products from McDonald's
It's a never-ending issue for McDonald's and other restaurants until they cease using antibiotics with their meat products. McDonald's received a "C" score for antibiotics overuse.
Chrysler-UAW labor pact solves all the big problems except one
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the United Auto Workers union reached a new agreement regarding the company's health care and salary system including the 2-tier pay. The new term was discussed after some 40, 000 of the company's worker threaten to go for a strike that could potentially put the production on halt.
For Avon, it's better late than never
Avon stock price has declined because it refused to go with the flow of the modern day industry where a lot of businesses make use of social media and other means to promote their products to drawing customers and generate larger revenue.
Altice to buy Cablevision for $17.7bn including debt
Global cable group Altice is acquiring New York-based Cablevision for $17.7bn including debt. This makes Altice as the fourth largest cable provider in the US. Cablevision's CEO James Dolan will hand over the control to a group of Europeans after the Altice deal. Altice will pay $34.90 a share in cash taking the valuation of Cablevision equity to $9.6bn.
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Family business contribute over 70 percent of global productions, but owners of them don't update their estate planning. It's estimated that over 50 percent of family business owners didn't update estate planning for more than five years. Perfect and updated family planning ensures the smooth transition of a property from one generation to other while exploiting many tax benefits as well, advise experts.
American global conglomerate General Electric (GE) has floated a new unit 'GE Digital' to position itself a leader in Industrial Internet of Things. The newly created unit GE Digital will integrate GE software center, knowledge of its global IT teams and industrial security expertise of Wurldtech. Bill Ruh has been appointed as Chief Digital Officer to lead the GE Digital. GE Digital aims to be among global top-10 software companies by 2020.
New upgraded Theta S Camera to be launched in October with better 360° capture, more convenient size
Ricoh's new, upgraded Theta S camera will be launched next month with a better quality 360° photo capability and a more convenient size. Ricoh launched its small, stick-shaped 360° Theta camera in 2013. It can take spherical photos and videos.
Qualcomm announced Quick Charge 3.0. It is a 'next-generation' charger that promises to charge smart phones from 0 to 80% by 35 minutes. The charger will be available alongside Snapdragon processors next year.
In a wireless world full of competition, it leaves Sprint with no choice but to think of a smart strategy to outwit others. So far, Sprint has the best deal compared with other carriers, but who knows what will happen next with the price war still looming around.
Alibaba is in big trouble as Investors lose confidence over the continuing decline of shares caused by the slow consumer spending brought by the Chinese economic meltdown.
The US wireless major Sprint backed bonds tumbled in the market following the downgrade by Moody's, which sees increasing burden of debt maturities, brutal competitions and lack of operational stability for the third largest US wireless company.
Tap tap tap, the tech company that developed the third-party $3 Camera+, launched a free version of that revolutionary camera app September 10.
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