As a social worker with 30 years’ experience working in hospice care, Christina Ingenito expected to face death gracefully when her time came. But when a breast cancer diagnosis at 59 left this once ebullient woman “severely clinically depressed” — her words — she turned to an unusual research project for help. In 2016, Ingenito […]
Read moreA San Francisco startup called Good2Go wants to make it easy to find clean, well-lit bathrooms in any major city. And you won’t have to touch a single surface inside them, either. The company’s iOS app, available Thursday, will present users with a map of nearby bathrooms at private establishments, along with a rough estimate […]
Read moreNow that Amazon officially owns Whole Foods Market, one top Wall Street firm predicts the internet giant expanding into the physical grocery store market will boost its other businesses. Morgan Stanley reiterated its overweight rating for Amazon shares, saying millions of Whole Foods shoppers will likely sign up for Amazon Prime. Amazon’s “price cuts, Prime […]
Read moreTired of hearing about the iPhone X? Google clearly is, as the Mountain View company has just debuted a new marketing campaign and website that urges viewers to “ask more.” The new landing page is part of the madeby.google.com subdomain, and it carries the teasing tagline of “thinking about changing phones?” It was on October […]
Read moreU.S. consumer prices accelerated in August amid a jump in the cost of gasoline and rents, signs of firming inflation that could allow further monetary policy tightening from the Federal Reserve this year. The Labor Department said on Thursday its Consumer Price index rose 0.4 percent last month after edging up 0.1 percent in July. […]
Read moreU.S. consumers who want Apple‘s newest iPhones, including its most expensive model yet, the iPhone X, may find fewer deals as wireless carriers are less willing to offer subsidies on devices in a saturated market. New phone launches have long offered carriers a chance to gain market share by offering incentives such as free service […]
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Bitcoin prices fell about 7 percent on Thursday after one of the biggest exchanges in China said it will shut down its operation. The cryptocurrency traded at $3,601.40 at 7:58 a.m. in New York, far below an all-time high of $5,013.91 set earlier this month. BTC China said in a tweet Thursday it will close […]
Read moreWells Fargo is warning investors that the year’s record market gains could soon start slipping away. It’s a situation prompting the firm to get “more aggressive” in its latest strategy to take risk off the table. “We are not bullish on the stock market,” Christopher Harvey, the firm’s head of equity strategy, said Wednesday on […]
Read moreCheck out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Lattice Semiconductor — President Donald Trump blocked the proposed acquisition of the chip maker by a China-backed private-equity fund. The fund had planned to buy Lattice for $1.3 billion. Tenet Healthcare – Tenet has hired advisers to explore strategic options, including a potential sale, according […]
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Mercedes owner Daimler invests millions in batteries that charge electric vehicles in five minutes
Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler has invested millions in an Israeli start-up whose battery technology can charge electric vehicles in a matter of minutes. Tel-Aviv-based StoreDot announced Wednesday that the trucking arm of the German automotive giant had led a $60 million funding round, and would partner with the firm to adopt its FlashBattery technology. The company […]
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