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The International Maritime Organization may approve a new carbon tax on shipping.
The Trump administration argues the carbon tax will harm trade and cost jobs.
Australian businessman...
The parent company of Google (GOOGL), Alphabet has claimed to generate a sales revenue of $27.77 billion, in a brief period of the third quarter of a year. Google saw a gain of 24%.
Thanks to advertisements on YouTube and mobile platform, the company’s earnings earned a new milestone. The section...
Amazon has just established its position in the world of global business by possibly overturning another industry without even launching a product. According to sources, CVS Health (CVS) is in talks to purchase Aetna (AET) for $66 billion in a hit merger that could restructure the health insurance industry....
Amazon is all set to expand into different markets. According to reports, Amazon has gained pharmacy licenses in several states signaling its intentions to set foot into the world of drugstore and healthcare business.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a dozen states have issued licenses to Amazon. These 12 states...
According to a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, people who smoke weed regularly have sex 20 percent more times than non-smokers.
Researchers at Stanford University’s School of Medicine examined the Center for Disease Control’s National Survey of Family Growth study. One of the questions in the...
This Halloween, New Jersey’s Gloucester County is warning kids and parents to be on the lookout for marijuana candy edibles. Officers issued a warning to parents on Thursday to beware of marijuana “gummy” candy this Halloween.
According to the New Jersey Department of Health, there is an influx of...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is super-rich. Not just kind of rich but, exorbitantly rich. Forbes has updated their rankings after a significant overnight development, and Bezos tops Gates as the richest man in the world.
Bezos’ net worth now sits at an incredible $92 billion while Gates trails behind...
Apple is planning to spend $1 billion to create original content, according to a report by Bloomberg. But, the type of content Apple is seeking to produce is more family-friendly than you would expect.
The report claims Apple wants every show it produces suitable enough for an Apple Store, instead of content...
Facebook has released a new set of guidelines for publishers on how the social network ranks content.
On Monday, Facebook’s head of the News Feed, Adam Mosseri, said during an announcement at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism that the new guidelines were created to allow publishers understand “what works...
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman’s decision to expand the payments platform beyond just websites and into stores has panned out to be a great business decision.
The company is expected to bring home revenue between $3.57 billion and $3.63 billion this quarter. PayPal is becoming a platform of choice for shoppers...
Facebook announced a few months ago a plan to start testing subscriptions and paywalls for their Instant Articles. Now, Facebook has begun testing subscription support for instant articles.
Facebook will begin with two different paywall options. The first choice is a model where everyone gets to read ten free stories...
Blue Apron is approaching their next earnings report in the next few weeks; the company said Wednesday they plan on laying off 6% of their staff as part of “a company-wide realignment of personnel to support its strategic priorities.”
Blue Apron was one of the most highly anticipated IPOs of...
Here’s some scary news just in time for Halloween. Studies suggest that our brains still function after we die. That means, when we die, we know that we are dead. The research was first published in 2014 and says our consciousness may still function for a period after our...
A Missouri appeals court has tossed out a $72 million award in a woman’s lawsuit that claimed talcum powder and other Johnson & Johnson products added to her cancer, according to CBS news.
On Tuesday, the Missouri Eastern District court ruled that Missouri was not the correct jurisdiction for the...
Within the next few months, China’s 8.5-ton space laboratory will crash into Earth. But, no one knows where it will hit.
According to reports, Tiangong 1, in Chinese translates to “Heavenly Palace,” is China’s first space lab. China launched Tiangong1 in 2011, and the laboratory worked as a prototype for...
Bitcoin’s valuation has surpassed $5,000 for the first time on Thursday. The value of Bitcoin has jumped 8% on the day as investors gain more confidence in the cryptocurrency market.
Bitcoin is the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency. Since the start of 2017, the value of the cryptocurrency has increased...
Amazon is about to go on a hiring spree. The e-commerce giant plans to add more than 120,000 workers for the upcoming holiday shopping season. On Thursday, the company announces it will hire positions in its fulfillment centers, customer service sites, and sorting facilities. While many of the jobs...
Facebook is calling for U.S. lawmakers to let the world see the ads linked to Russian accounts and advertised during the 2016 election. The social network is also willing to explain the ad targeting to the public as well.
Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook’s chief operating officer. On Thursday, she announced...
PornHub receives 80 million visitors a day, but the website may have been hacked. According to Independent, Pornhub was hacked. The news outlet reports a secret advertisement has been running on the site for more than a year. The ad would infiltrate a user's computer and then have their device...
China’s Alibaba is investing $15 billion into a network of research groups with a mission to challenge Silicon Valley’s dominance in technology.
Alibaba announced on Wednesday that the investment would be used to create research labs over the next three years around the world. The goal of the $15 billion...
Facebook users have experienced an outage Wednesday morning. Users report being unable to use the website and other users report the website’s functionality such as the “post” box was not working.
The outage of the network was tracked by the website Down Detector, where users continue to report issues with...
