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McDonald’s Beef Antibiotic Policy Could Signal Shift for Fast Food Industry
Ranchers and farmers have been pumping cows, chicken, and pigs full of human antibiotics that is slowly destroying the world’s ability to treat infections. …
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Uber vs Lyft: Whose IPO will set stocks soaring?
Uber and Lyft have hinted for months that they’ll go public in 2019. What came as a surprise was reports of Uber confidentially filing …
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Uber confidentially files for IPO in a race against Lyft to tap investors
Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies has filed confidential paperwork for its initial public offerings, WSJ reports, as the ridesharing startup races against rival Lyft to …
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Facebook Obstructed Data Access to Rivals
Facebook Inc allowed some companies [ad customers] including Lyft, Badoo, and Netflix, to access users’ friend’s list after removing the data from most other …
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Google Makes Strategic Investment in Japanese AI and Machine Learning Startup ABEJA
Google has enjoyed its status as a predominant search engine so much so that it has become synonymous with the verb ‘search.’ Turns out …
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Audi Announces to Invest $16 Billion in Self-Driving Car Tech
Volkswagen AG’s premium auto brand Audi announced on Tuesday it would invest $16 billion through 2023 in autonomous driving, digitalization, and electric cars. The …
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Hemp Farming Nears Legal Status after Almost a Century
Congress has adopted a proposed legislation that could officially legalize hemp production in the United States. The legalization bill, which is coming after nearly …
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Go-Jek wages war in Southeast Asia with a launch in Grab’s home
Earlier this year, ride-hailing service giant Uber left Southeast Asia to cut potential losses after failing to contend Grab’s force in the region. This …
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Google Hangouts will be Migrated to Chat and Meet
Google may be shutting down its communication platform Hangouts in 2020, reports 9to5Google on Friday. A Hangouts shutdown notice means the platform users have …
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Crude Oil Deals Now On Blockchain Technology
Oil trading firms and majors can now finalize crude oil deals using blockchain technology for the first time as BP backed platform Vakt makes …
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s congressional hearing reportedly on December 5th
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be testifying before Congress on December 5th, a source told Washington Post. The CEO will reportedly face off against …
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Uber Fined €1M by Dutch and British Regulators Over 2016 Data Breach
Uber Technologies Inc., which is already dealing with a barrage of legal and regulatory issues, has landed itself a £900,000 fine by UK and …
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Ohio to accept Bitcoin for Taxes
Starting Monday, Ohio will allow businesses to use Bitcoin for taxes. The state has opened a cryptocurrency portal, which will allow businesses to pay …
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MIT Engineers Fly Star Wars-inspired Plane with No Moving Parts
Scientists at the Massachusetts University of Technology have built the first-ever silent airplane with no moving propellers or jet turbines and requires no fossil …
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Apple Reportedly Resumes iPhone X Production Following Weak XS Sales
Apple killed the iPhone X production in September following the introduction of its latest flagships; the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, with an …
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French Tobacco Shops Authorized to Sell Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies
The tobacco industry in France is constantly looking for ways to hook new generations of smokers. Starting January, tobacco shops across France will add …
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Apple Acquires AI Startup Silk Labs
Apple, Inc. has reportedly acquired a little-known AI startup Silk Labs, which develops machine learning software for tasks like building surveillance and home security. …
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Elon Musk renames SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket to ‘Starship’ for interplanetary trip
Elon Musk has changed the name of SpaceX’s future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) to Starship. Tweeting from his personal Twitter account, …
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The Boring Company Breaks Through The First Tunnel
The Boring Company’s Test Tunnel launch in LA is about one month away from now, according to CEO Elon Musk, and it appears the …
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Kenya’s Twiga Foods raises $10 million capital from IFC, TLcom
Twiga Foods, a Kenyan-based startup that connects smallholder farmers to retail vendors, has secured $10 million capital from investors led by the International Finance …
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Amazon-backed startup’s Focals could be the smart glasses you’ll want to wear
The technology of smart glasses has been a difficult subject across many tech companies, with some giant firms having tried but yet to live …
