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.
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Google's Latest Feature Can Reply To Your Emails
Google has launched a new feature that has the capability to automatically reply to your emails on your behalf. The latest feature named Smart Reply by the Google team uses artificial intelligence to scan the email, understand what it says and come up with three short answers for it. The user can then select one of those three answers and send it as a reply to that particular email with a single tap.
Increased Marijuana Tax Will Shoulder College Education
High school graduates in Pueblo County, Colorado will get college scholarship from increased tax on marijuana growers by 2017. A CNN report shows that 60 percent of Voters in the county approved Tuesday a measure that will increase taxes on marijuana growers by 5 percent in the year 2020.
U.S. companies swarmed Cuba, uncertain if business profits
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.
Athena: Women's Bestfriend Against Sexual Attacks
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.
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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.
In the fast growing world of technology, different technological companies are contending each other in order to get hold of the global market. In order to do so, sharp and creative minds enrolled are launching different devices, which alongside are easy to use and comfortable, aside from being stylish and sleek.
Sprint Corp - a subsidiary of Japan Softbank- and one of the largest mobile services provider in the US is currently on the way to cutting costs in the midst of deploying marketing strategy to recover lost subscribers.
Oil prices dropped on low volumes as investors preferred to book profit to take advantage of overnight rally. The oil price is hovering above $50 a barrel on disruption in production in Brazil and Libya.
The US stocks closed higher on Tuesday as investors begin to heavily buy shares as commodities producers slowly beginning to balance their output helping its price to rebound.
