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Accenture reports double digit revenue growth; earnings benefit from US tax code

IT services provider Accenture (ACN) reported positive top and bottom line results for the second quarter. Revenue climbed by 14.9%…

Five Below goes above and beyond with healthy outlook

Five Below (FIVE), which announces itself as the "extreme-value retailer for tweens, teens and beyond," went above and beyond investor…

EU-US spat tightens as digital tax proposal looms large over tech giants

In what could be the latest bone of contention between the United States and the EU, the latter’s executive unit…

Beware credit-card holders, Fed rate hikes are coming

The Federal Reserve is expected to spike interest rate today by about 0.25 percentage points to 1.75%. While this is…

Lessons from the Uber fiasco in Arizona

Yesterday’s incident of a self-driving Uber car mowing down a cyclist perhaps marks the beginning of an era when technology…

SUV craze brings more investment to Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant

Automaker Volkswagen is planning to invest $340 million at its Chattanooga, Tennessee factory to build a smaller version of its…

Safety in peril: Self-driving Uber car fatally mows down woman pedestrian

The proponents of autonomous commuting technology sound pretty confident about the safety of such vehicles whenever questions are raised about…

Companies that we want to go public this year

It’s been only three months into the year, and we have already seen two popular and much-loved companies going public…

Facebook quizzes might reveal more that what you signed up for

“What you put on Facebook, stays on Facebook. (And anyone can take it).” This has been implied umpteen times before, but…

Is it ‘game over’ for ExxonMobil?

Once the darling of the Oil & Gas industry, ExxonMobil (XOM), has now lost its sheen. Gone are those days…

GM’s ‘robo-taxi’ rollout is closer than you think!

A few decades ago, when it was still a concept, autonomous transportation technology looked like a whacky idea straight out…

Chinese e-commerce mammoth Alibaba plans to list in China

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group (BABA) — parent of Alibaba.com, China’s answer to Amazon and e-Bay — may soon opt for…

Unilever ditches London for Rotterdam

In a major setback for the UK government, Unilever plc (UL) said it is planning to consolidate its headquarters in…

AT&T – Time Warner deal can increase TV bills $436 million a year

It’s been almost a year since then-presidential candidate Donald Trump voiced his opinion on blocking the AT&T (T) - Time…

United Airlines in the doghouse: Pet shipped to Japan in error

In the latest mishap in the United Airlines saga, the carrier switches a pet bound for Kansas, putting it on…

Ford slows in the race with faulty steering wheel and clutch plate

Ford Motor Company is recalling roughly 1.4 million vehicles in North America as the detachment of steering wheel from column…

Lower car sales drag February retail sales to negative territory

Reflecting the underlying weakness in private consumption and allaying fears of aggressive rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, retail sales…

Alphabet footprint: ‘Sci-fi crafts’ jump from creative space to created space!

Over the past few years, we have been reading and hearing a lot about driverless passenger vehicles, and some might…

Walmart takes a fresh jab at Amazon with grocery delivery

Walmart is making its next move in the grocery space. The retailer is looking to expand its online grocery delivery…

Yahoo faces lawsuit on data breach

Security is no trivial matter and it looks like Yahoo is about to learn this the hard way. A federal…

PetIQ: Q4 2017 earnings snapshot

Pet health and wellness company PetIQ (PETQ) reported a 15.5% jump in sales, while net loss widened to $3.39 million.…