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Ryanair staff strike in six European Union countries

Joining in the industrial action, the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) called on Ryanair pilots in Germany to strike from 3.01am (German time) on Friday to 2.59am on ...

Volkswagen strikes deal with Microsoft to build cars connected to the cloud

Volkswagen's supervisory board on Friday gave the green light for a strategic partnership between the Wolfsburg-based carmaker and Microsoft that will see the...

Amazon opens new physical store that stocks only its highest-rated products

The average rating of all the products in Amazon 4-Star on Thursday was 4.4 stars, and together, the in-store items had over 1.8 million five-star customer revi...

Hong Kong most at risk of a property bubble, says UBS

Soaring real estate prices have angered many Hong Kong residents and prompted the city's government to set aside plots of land for public housing and propos...

BMW i3 to get bigger battery with 153-mile range

The 42 kWh supersedes the smaller 33 kWh battery of the 2016 update, which in turn replaced the 22 kWh battery with which the i3 launched in 2013. In the mor...

What Comes Next in Facebook's Major Data Breach

The company says it has fixed the vulnerability and told law enforcement about the issue. Facebook says that because they responded so quickly to the threat...

Canada and Trump administration at impasse — NAFTA negotiations

Quebec, which is home to half of Canada's dairy industry, has become an important political fulcrum in the talks, particularly if Canada agrees to concessions...

Bed Bath & Beyond nosedives after cutting forecasts - 9/27/2018 12:40:53 PM

The P/E ratio calculates how expensive a stock price is relative to the earnings produced per share. The next 5 year EPS growth rate of Bed Bath & Beyond ...

SurveyMonkey Climbs in Debut After Upsized $180 Million IPO

Sandberg joined SVMK's board after her husband Dave Goldberg, who ran the company, unexpectedly died while on vacation in 2015 . It raised $180 million in ...

Global trade war may boost China, hurt US - USA

President Donald Trump slapped 10% tariffs on $200 billion (₱10.8 trillion) worth of Chinese imports. Wang Shouwen made the remarks at a press conference in B...

Get free, discounted coffee in SA for National Coffee Day

In honor of National Coffee Day on September 29, chains like Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' Donuts are serving up some great deals. Stores and restaurants natio...

Fed hike, trade row roil Asian markets

This latest move, which is the third this 2018 and the eight ever since the end of "quantitative easing" in December 2015, will force commercial banks in Hong ...

Boeing wins $9 billion Air Force contract

While Boeing remains a giant in commercial aircraft, it has been outflanked by rivals recently in the defense space. Boeing's joint bid with Swedish aerospace c...

Oil markets take a breather as U.S. supplies rise once again

OPEC has acted repeatedly to influence the price of crude oil via collective production targets, in order to protect the precious revenues of its membership. ...

Elon Musk: 5 things to know about the SEC's fraud complaint

The company's future is in the "board's court now and it remains to be seen what will happen next", wrote Cowen analyst Jeff Osborne in a note. Spiegel also e...

China Is Out to Get Me

Mr Trump did not offer proof for his claim. Trump earlier told a U.N. Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction that C...

Turkey's Erdogan at United Nations rails against sanctions 'as weapons'

Merkel said she and Erdogan talked about bilateral economic co-operation, and stressed " Germany has an interest in an economically stable Turkey". Erdoğan a...

Facebook reveals security breach affecting 50 million users

This enabled them, the company said in a statement, to steal access tokens which they could then use to take over people's accounts. "We do not yet know wheth...

Hacker threatens to delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account live on stream

A Bloomberg report says, Chang Chi-yuan is a minor celebrity in Taiwan who has successfully hacked into Apple and Tesla. Chang Chi-yuan is well known in Tai...

Alphabet, Inc. (GOOGL) Executives Downplay China Search Engine Offering During Senate Hearing

Mr. Enright was forced to defend what many see as a potential compromise of Google's privacy values at the same time as pushing for new federal data protection ...

Elon Musk SEC fraud lawsuit sends Tesla shares tumbling

As a result, Musk is now facing an SEC lawsuit that accuses him of fraud because his tweets were "false and misleading statements". Tesla did not immediatel...

Trudeau denies requesting meeting with Trump at UN

Trudeau's "tariffs are too high, and he doesn't seem to want to move, and I've told him forget about it, and frankly, we're thinking about just taxing cars comi...

Relief for drivers as petrol price falls 2p

Fuel users are facing unprecedented price increases in October. "These increases are catastrophic for road users", said the AA's Layton Beard. If the AA's p...

China Stocks Opening to Foreign Investors

MSCI says that China A-shares will make up about 2.8% of the index by August 2019, up from 0.7% now-an estimated $42 billion inflow. The inclusion of Chinese ...

Fresh Ryanair strikes see 30,000 customers hit by cancellations

Crew in Spain , Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and Germany are staging a mass walkout over working conditions, base transfers and annual leave. ...

Federal Reserve poised to raise interest rates

The Fed bumped up its policy target by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.00-2.25 percent and indicated that it foresees another rate rise in December, three ...

Elon Musk sued by SEC for securities fraud

Tesla stock was down almost 10 percent in after-hours trading. "This unjustified action by the SEC leaves me deeply saddened and disappointed", he said in the...

McDonald’s says classic burgers no longer have artificial ingredients

They said the problematic ingredients were American cheese, Big Mac Special Sauce and some buns. McDonald's U.S. on Wednesday announced that its iconic bu...

Man arrested for chasing after plane at Dublin Airport

At approximately 7am Thursday, the Ryanair flight from Dublin to Amsterdam was taxiing to the runway when a man in his 20s sprinted through the terminal build...

Oil prices rise 1% ahead of United States sanctions against Iran

Oil traded in London fell 53 cents to settle at $81.34 a barrel on Wednesday. "It would be good for the price of oil for Iran to be able to sell it", the Fren...

Tesla Model 3 Exploring All Options To Speed Up Deliveries

The potential customer who got the $3 000 discount offer said he was told if he took delivery of a Tesla before month end, he also would get free superchargin...

Tesla Model 3 earns flawless 5-star safety rating from the NHTSA

Crash tests consists of a simulated 35-miles per hour frontal impact, a 38.5-mph side barrier impact, a side pole impact, along with a rollover test. The elec...

Palestinian killed by Israeli fire at protest near frontier

It also called for urgent action by Israel and the worldwide community to avoid "immediate collapse". "In the first quarter of 2018, Gaza's economy contra...

Ryanair refuses to compensate 30000 passengers hit by strike

But Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary says the demand was "irrelevant" as he says the company had already offered to move staff to local contracts. A planned Euro...

Federal Reserve hikes interest rate, citing "strong" economy

What's missing are the valleys, extended periods when the unemployment rate stays low and stable. Inflation was forecast to hover near 2 percent over the ne...