Wall Street sees Amazon posting a decline in profit compared to last year when it reports second-quarter results Thursday, as the company continues to invest in new areas like video, hardware devices, and international expansion. Amazon is expected to report second-quarter profit of $1.41 per share, down from the $1.78 per share reported a year […]
Read moreWall Street is buzzing over Facebook’s surging ad pricing growth. Analysts are stunned the social media giant is able to charge so much more for its inventory. Facebook shares opened up 5.5 percent Thursday morning to a new all-time high. “Shares are reacting positively to a strong pricing reflex that suggests the key pricing-driven 2H […]
Read moreU.S. equities opened higher on Thursday as the tech sector was lifted by strong earnings from key companies. The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record high at the open, with Boeing contributing the most gains. The S&P 500 also hit a record, with telecommunications and technology leading advancers. The Nasdaq composite outperformed, rising half […]
Read moreRussian intelligence agents attempted to spy on President Emmanuel Macron’s election campaign earlier this year by creating phony Facebook personas, according to a U.S. congressman and two other people briefed on the effort. About two dozen Facebook accounts were created to conduct surveillance on Macron campaign officials and others close to the centrist former financier […]
Read moreWe need to talk about overhead instructional videos of people making food. You know the ones I mean. Open up Facebook or Instagram and you’ll bump into one or two or a billion of them. Consider “Sliders 4 Ways,” in which a disembodied pair of hands moving at bullet speed turns dinner rolls and a […]
Read moreInvestors have been bullish on bitcoin all this year because of its rapid appreciation, but now, mom and pop buyers are also looking for a way to benefit from its price surge, despite the big risks. BitcoinIRA launched in May of 2016, offering investors the tax-advantage of an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), plus the return […]
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Boeing venture teams up with private moon lander for 2019 Apollo 11 anniversary launch
A private moon lander has partnered up with Boeing‘s United Launch Alliance (ULA) for its maiden mission to the moon in 2019. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic’s robotic Peregrine lander will use ULA’s Atlas V rocket to make its first trip to the moon on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The lunar lander – […]
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Medical advice telling patients to complete antibiotics course is wrong, study says
Doctors should reconsider telling patients to complete a prescribed course of antibiotics because there is not enough evidence to suggest that stopping pills early encourages antibiotic resistance, according to analysis in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Traditionally, patients have been told they must finish a prescribed course of antibiotics. The current guidance from the World […]
Read moreAt the beginning of the year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg set a goal to visit every state in the U.S. so he could learn more about the millions of people who use the social network every day. But two of his employees tell The Guardian that they wonder when the billionaire is going to get […]
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AstraZeneca shares suffer biggest ever daily fall as lung cancer study fails
AstraZeneca‘s combination of two injectable immunotherapy drugs failed to help patients as hoped in a closely watched advanced lung cancer trial, sending its shares plunging on Thursday. The so-called MYSTIC study was the most anticipated clinical experiment in the pharmaceutical industry this year and the news saw the shares tumble more than 16 percent, wiping […]
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