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Nikkei plunges on Flynn’s ouster
Stocks turned sharply lower Tuesday, weighed down by the yen’s rise following the resignation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. The Nikkei 225 average lost 220.17 points, or 1.13 percent, to finish at 19,238.98. On Monday, the key market gauge rose 80.22 points. The Topix, covering all first-section ...
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Under Hon Hai, Sharp looks to expand LCD operations
Struggling electronics maker Sharp Corp. is starting to focus on expanding its business operations, six months after coming under the umbrella of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. In October-December last year, Sharp posted a group net profit of ¥4.2 billion, returning to the black for the first time since ...
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Sears, Kmart pull Trump products from online stores
Sears and Kmart have evicted “a very small number” of Trump-branded items from their online stores, but they haven’t specify how many and are emphasizing that hundreds of products are still available through their third-party online marketplaces. It’s another sign of how companies are trying to tread a careful line, ...
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Tokyo startup offers QR code app for those who want to shop like Michael Jackson
In the 2003 documentary “Living With Michael Jackson,” the late King of Pop was filmed shopping for art and furniture in a Las Vegas store, pointing at things he liked and walking out, leaving his handlers to settle the bill. A startup in Japan is trying to make that retail ...
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Dubai embraces high-tech travel with people-carrying drone
Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July. The arrival of the Chinese-made Ehang 184 — which has already had its flying debut over Dubai’s iconic, sail-shaped Burj al-Arab skyscraper hotel — comes as the Emirati ...
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Key retail CEOs head to Washington to fight Trump-planned border tax
Chief executives of some of America’s largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. Inc., are headed to Washington this week to make their case that a controversial tax on imports would raise consumer prices and hurt their businesses, according to people familiar with the plan. The group of ...
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Verizon gives in, enters unlimited data game
Verizon, a longtime holdout, has joined other carriers in offering an unlimited data plan. AT&T only lets customers sign up for unlimited plans when they also subscribe to DirecTV, which AT&T owns. But its prices are similar to Verizon’s for a family; Verizon is cheaper for an individual. As recently ...
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South Carolina Boeing workers, Machinists rally ahead of vote to unionize
Two days before South Carolina Boeing employees vote on whether to join a union, workers gathered Monday to hear from union leaders why they should vote to organize in a state where union membership is the lowest in the country. Workers and members of the International Association of Machinists and ...
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The human rights impact of the EU-Turkey deal
Source: Amnesty International Country: Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Libya, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, WorldAccording to Amnesty, the deal has certainly stemmed the flow of migrants across the Aegean, but at a considerable cost to Europe’s commitment to refugee protection. In the absence of safe and legal routes into Europe, hundreds of thousands ...
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Luca Saraceno tells how doctor wife died on Westlands road as crowd stared
At approximately 4:30 pm of Friday the 27th of January 2017, my wife, my best friend, the love of my life, Dr Eunice Songa-Saraceno, died like a hero. Aged 34, she died young and beautiful, like the heroes of the ancient myths; willing to change her Country she died fighting ...