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Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for suggestions ahead of Union Budget 2020

Modi shared his confidence in the economy achieving the medium term goal at a meeting with economists and representatives from various industries ahead of his g...

TikTok: an SMS is enough to hack any account!

Researchers from Check Point established TikTok uses a feature on its website for users to enter their phone number and receive a SMS with a link to downloa...

US House votes to restrain Trump's actions against Iran

The War Powers Resolution passed 224 to 194. He also said he wonders what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., meant when she called the airstrike disp...

Uber stops upfront ride pricing in California amid new labor law

This only applies to trips other than carpooling, Uber said, and the final earning will be calculated based on the time and distance tracked at the end of the...

S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Roar after President Trump's Iran speech

Ten-year Treasury yields declined following a government auction. Suhail al-Mazroui, the energy minister of the United Arab Emirates, said oil producers wou...

Japan and Nissan hit back at Ghosn's claims

His escape has been an embarrassment for Japan, where members of the media said they saw security footage of Ghosn leaving his home in Tokyo on December 29, w...

Gold prices plummet Rs 766 silver also tumbles Rs 1 148

Gold prices inched lower on Tuesday, a day after hitting their highest in almost seven years, with a lack of immediate escalation between the United States and...

App Store spending hit record levels during the 2019 holidays

Apple on Wednesday said its Apple News service has reached 100 million monthly active users versus 85 million a year prior, demonstrating growth in a key serv...

'I have not fled justice, I have escaped injustice' - Carlos Ghosn

The businessman of French, Lebanese and Brazilian origin, who essentially saved Nissan from bankruptcy two decades ago, disappointed the press by saying he wasn...

Amid slowdown, Rolls-Royce delivers 25% more cars in 2019

The marquee says that the strong demand for its Cullinan SUV has helped boost the sales figures. The North American market was accountable for roughly a third...

'Hard Revenge': Iran's IRGC Bombards Al-Asad, Other US Bases in Iraq

The retaliation comes after the US killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani who was involved in terrorist activities throughout the Middle East. Iranian leaders ...

Oil and gold spike on Trump and Iran tension escalation

Oil prices were down on the day prior to the afternoon data release, but were up week on week after this weekend saw United States airstrikes in Iraq that ...

IKEA agree to pay $66 million after two-year-old killed

Because of a settlement in a previous case brought by Feldman Shepherd, Ikea agreed to only sell chests and dressers in the USA meeting or exceeding the nationa...

Oil hits US$70 as Iran, Trump trade threats

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.3 percent, after a 0.7 percent drop the previous session. It added that it has to settle a sc...

US, China may ink Phase 1 deal next week

Exports with China rose to $10.1 billion from $8.9 billion. That deal is scheduled to be signed on January 15 in Washington, but business executives are brace...

Borden becomes second big U.S. milk producer to file for bankruptcy

Dean Foods , the nation's largest milk producer, filed for bankruptcy protection in November. With the wholesale cost of milk rising due to fewer suppliers and ...

Mnuchin, Le Maire Seek Tax Compromise to Avoid French Sanctions

Paris will not sit idle if Washington implements its threat to hit French goods with tariffs, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stated as he touched on a simmerin...

Government Expects 5% Economic Growth for FY20

In the 2019-20 budget, India's nominal GDP was estimated at 211 billion rupees, an increase of 12 percent compared to the estimated 188 billion rupees in 2018-1...

Boeing Will Reassign 3,000 Workers as Airlines Reach Compensation Deals Over MAX

The Mexican airline did not disclose the size of the payment and said it remained in talks with Boeing and regulatory authorities. Boeing last month halted prod...

Iran Tensions to Drive Bitcoin Price Even Higher

As Forbes reported , referencing a chart of the recent upward movement of the world's largest cryptocurrency, "This is a very interesting chart because it sho...

The moment a wheel falls off a plane in Canada

In the video, orange sparks fly out of the centre of the wheel as the aircraft storms down the runway. Passengers were put on another plane to Quebec . "2020 i...

Fisker Ocean is the newest electric SUV with 480km range

The vehicle will also have a rather cool "California mode", which means pressing a single button will open all nine windows on the auto, including the rear wind...

Bosch Virtual Visor Aims To Improve The Car Visor

The system uses artificial intelligence to locate the driver within the image from the driver-facing camera. This process happens in real-time; the Virtual Vi...

'We can't trust Google': former executive says company has lost its way

LaJeunesse said he once again found himself defending human rights in China after learning in 2017 of a project called Dragonfly , an effort to bring a ce...

Tesla stock hits record high as deliveries top forecast

Elon Musk's electric auto company is starting the new year off on a high note. In 2019, however, Tesla delivered and proved any number of skeptics wrong. Equall...

New battery could power a smartphone for 5 days

Lithium-sulphur batteries hold the promise of four times the efficiency of current energy storage based on lithium-ion technology, the researchers said . "Our ...

Tuna fetches $1.8 million at New Year auction in Tokyo

A 276-kilogram blue fin tuna caught in Japan's northern prefecture of Aomori fetched 193 million yen, or about 1.8 million dollars. There were more large blue...

Qantas named safest airline in the world; SIA in sixth place

Qantas leads the pack for the seventh year in a row. "Over its 99-year history the world's oldest continuously operating airline [Qantas] has amassed a trul...

Apple chief's pay dips with performance

Cook donated US$2 million worth of Apple shares to an undisclosed charity last week and has said he plans to eventually donate the majority of his fortune ...

Northern Train operator stripped of franchise after unreliable service

Grant Shapps' comments came during an interview with the BBC - as the government announced an average fare rise of 2.7 per cent for train tickets from Thursda...

Fuel prices continue to surge amid tension in Middle East

In the worldwide market, oil prices first made a sharp surge on Friday after news of the killing of Iran's key political figure General Qassem Soleimani in airs...

Low Interest Rates Worry the Fed. Ben Bernanke Has Some Ideas

In a speech a year ago, Fed board governor Lael Brainard, for example, suggested the Fed might promise in its new framework that once rates reached zero it woul...

Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport Named World's Most Punctual Airport

In Cirium's review, Russian airline Aeroflot is named as the world's most on-time global mainline airline (a carrier without partner airlines), with 86.68% ...

Don't Abbreviate 2020 Or Else A Scammer Might Get Ya, Police Say

The East Millinocket Police Department says when signing and dating legal documents this year, don't just use '20 for the year 2020. "To really be safe yo...

"Signs of a softening market" property values decline in Metro Vancouver

The website also provides self-service access to a free, online property assessment search service that allows anyone to search, check and compare 2020 proper...