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Happy Returns Debuts Self-Service Return Kiosks
Retail Touch Points - 6 Mar 2019 16:21
Happy Returns, a provider of return and logistics solutions for retailers, has launched a new self-service return kiosk designed to provide consumers with a simplified way to return online purchases in stores. The kiosks...
Capitol Report: Here are the gifts the Trumps got from foreign leaders
Market Watch - 6 Mar 2019 19:45
Foreign governments gave President Donald Trump and his family gifts including a porcelain dinnerware set and portraits of Trump himself during his first year in office, according to a list released Wednesday by the Stat...
Exclusive: Grab eyes more funding, after raising $4.5 billion in SE Asia's largest financing round
Reuters - 6 Mar 2019 04:51
Grab is considering raising more funds from strategic investors, the president of Southeast Asia's top ride-hailing firm said, after raking in over $4.5 billion in the region's largest private financing round that includ...
How to design the end of a studio’s life
Fast Company - 6 Mar 2019 09:00
The promising young studio Hawraf is shutting down. The four partners decided to go out by publishing comprehensive documents about how they ran their business. When the independent design studio Hawraf burst onto the Ne...
Economic Report: More new-home sales are for houses that haven't even been started yet. That's not a good thing.
Market Watch - 6 Mar 2019 20:40
The share of new-home sales that were for houses not even started yet reached a one-year high, but one economist who cheered that measurement earlier in the housing cycle now thinks it shows something very different.
House Democrats target CFPB politicos, other Mulvaney changes in new bill
American Banker - 6 Mar 2019 19:13
The legislation comes a day before CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger is set to testify to Congress.
These beautiful (and terrifying) photos show what melting glaciers leave behind
Fast Company - 6 Mar 2019 12:00
A new series by aerial photographer Tom Hegen visualizes the effects of the Anthropocene. At first glance, it’s hard to tell if photographer Tom Hegen’s latest series features microscopic shots of some rare mineral,...
The success rate of four-year public college students varies widely by race
Market Watch - 6 Mar 2019 07:01
New research finds that, despite improvements, there's still a large gulf in completion rates by race
Tesla will be fine without Elon Musk as CEO: shareholder
New York Post - 6 Mar 2019 04:57
Tesla's largest outside shareholder thinks the automaker will be just fine if the Securities and Exchange Commission decides to oust Elon Musk from his role as chief executive officer. "We wouldn't be against him having ...
Forbes list: Bezos on top, Zuckerberg tumbles and Kylie Jenner makes history
New York Post - 6 Mar 2019 04:38
Move over, Zuck. Forbes has designated 21-year-old Kylie Jenner the "youngest self-made billionaire of all time," despite her ties to the famous and wealthy family behind the Kardashian empire. In a special issue of Forb...
Asia stocks tentative as Wall Street advance stalls, dollar firm
Reuters - 6 Mar 2019 02:36
Asian stocks clung to tight ranges on Wednesday, as investors awaited fresh directional cues from U.S.-China trade negotiations and a weaker Wall Street finish capped broader gains, while robust U.S. economic data suppor...
The Tell: Beware the 'Japanification' of Europe, warn ING economists
Market Watch - 6 Mar 2019 23:00
The eurozone is beginning to resemble Japan with its low growth and inflation environment, coupled with some still very loose monetary policy, according to economists at ING.
Google Duplex rolls out to Pixel phones in 43 states
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2019 20:00
Google Duplex -- Google's AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone -- is now available on Pixel phones in 43 states.
Market Extra: Draghi increasingly likely to leave ECB without ever delivering a rate hike
Market Watch - 6 Mar 2019 17:01
The European Central Bank looks increasingly unlikely to deliver a rate hike before Mario Draghi's term at the helm ends in October.
US trade gap jumped to 10-year high; record gap with China
Miami Herald - 6 Mar 2019 16:58
The U.S. trade deficit jumped nearly 19 percent in December, pushing the trade imbalance for all of 2018 to widen to a decade-long high of $621 billion. The gap with …
Dollar Tree to close up to 390 Family Dollar stores
ABC News - 6 Mar 2019 16:57
Dollar Tree to close up to 390 Family Dollar stores in 2019
Find out where the last Blockbuster store in the world is
USA Today - 6 Mar 2019 16:53
It’s been almost a decade since onetime video rental behemoth Blockbuster declared bankruptcy. At the end of this month, the Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon will be the last of its kind.
Daimler, BMW autonomous alliance seeks to define self-driving rules
Reuters - 6 Mar 2019 16:53
Daimler and BMW are teaming up to develop autonomous driving technology to cut costs and set an industry standard that can help to shape future regulation for self-driving cars, senior executives said on Wednesday.
General Electric Takes A Hit, Retailers Outperform Amid Broader Market Pause
Forbes - 6 Mar 2019 16:47
This morning, investors appear to continue to look for a catalyst to move the market higher, or much lower, as the news on the trade front has been tepid.
Company holding migrant children ditches plan to go public over outcry
New York Post - 6 Mar 2019 16:45
A private company holding more than a thousand migrant children at a detention camp in Florida scrapped plans to go public amid an outcry by critics who accused the corporation of profiting off children. Virginia-based C...
Markets Right Now: Stocks edge lower in early trade
ABC News - 6 Mar 2019 16:44
Stocks opened slightly lower on Wall Street, led by losses in energy and industrial companies.
Florida bill would limit non-economic lawsuit awards to $1M
Miami Herald - 6 Mar 2019 16:41
A Florida House bill that would limit non-economic lawsuit awards to $1 million is moving forward. The House Civil Justice Subcommittee voted 10-5 for a bill that attempts to protect …