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Trump-Era ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Presages Totalitarian Future

Decades after the release of "The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood's dystopian sci-fi fable and foundational feminist...

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Stores Are Closing At An Epic Pace

This week it was Bebe. Last month it was Staples. In February it was JCPenney. Stores are closing at an epic pace. In...

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Britain Loses 1bn Pounds Through VAT Fraud, Error By Amazon, EBay Sellers

Britain is losing up to 1 billion pounds a year in value added tax (VAT) because of fraud or error by sellers using...

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Katy Perry Trolled By Indians For Goddess Kali Post On Instagram

Pop star Katy Perry is facing the wrath of Indians online after uploading an image of the Hindu goddess Kali with the...

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Tech Firms Urge Court To Toss Trump Travel Ban

Scores of technology firms including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft joined a legal filing urging a judge to...

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Amazon Aims For India As Flipkart Holds On To Market Top Spot For Now

With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown...

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Amazon, Flipkart Battle In India For E-Commerce’s ‘last Frontier’

With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown...

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‘Skinny Bundles’ Step Up Challenge To US Big Cable

For years, US cable operators got rich by offering fat "bundles" of hundreds of channels and raising prices regularly...

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Apple Eyes Backing Hon Hai Bid For Toshiba Chip Unit

Tech giant Apple is considering backing Hon Hai's multi-billion dollar bid for Toshiba's lucrative memory chip...

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India’s Flipkart Raises $1.4 Bn From Microsoft, EBay, Tencent

A record funding round worth $1.4 billion has shored up India's top e-commerce company Flipkart in its fight against...

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India’s Flipkart Raises $1.4 Bn From Microsoft, EBay, Tencent

India's top e-commerce company Flipkart announced Monday it had raised $1.4 billion in a record funding round that...

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Interior Minister Ambrose Dery, Is This Police Behaviour Acceptable To You?

Ghana is a very funny place. Hypocrisy and selfishness have eaten so much into our social fabric that some of us are...

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Facebook Launches Digital Assistant ‘M’ In US

Facebook has launched its digital assistant named 'M' for US users of its Messenger application, ramping up the social...

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Bezos Sells $1 Bn In Amazon Stock Yearly To Pay For Rocket Firm

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos said he is selling $1 billion in stock of his retail giant Amazon each year to...

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Facebook Launches Digital Assistant ‘M’ In US

Facebook on Thursday launched its digital assistant named "M" for US users of its Messenger application, ramping up the...

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Staples Shares Surge After Report of Takeover Talks

Shares of Staples surged Tuesday following a report that the office supplies retailer was in talks with potential...

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Amazon To Open Three Data Centres In Sweden

Internet giant Amazon on Tuesday said it would build three data centres across Sweden, the first in the Nordic region,...

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Samsung’s Assistant Bixby In Tough Challenge To Rivals

Samsung's Bixby is the new kid on the block of personal digital assistants and is likely to face a rough reception in a...

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Court To Rule On Online Luxury Resellers

One of Europe’s top courts is due to open a landmark case that could determine whether luxury goods companies can ban...