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Millennial Love For Snapchat Extends To the Stock

For some millennial investors, loyalty to one of their favorite apps matters more than financial details in the case of...

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Travis Kalanick, the Force Behind Uber

Uber's rise to the top of the ride-sharing industry is due in large part to its hard-charging founder and chief...

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Cousins Signs Franchise Deal With Redskins

Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins, who reportedly has been denied a requested trade, signed his one-season...

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Uber Vows Not To Trick Regulators With ‘Greyball’ Tool

Uber on Wednesday promised not to use a recently uncovered "Greyball" software program to trick regulators trying to...

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Uber Seeks A Second-In-Command To Steady the Wheel

Uber on Tuesday began searching for a second-in-command to help embattled chief executive Travis Kalanick steady the...

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Pressure Mounts On Uber and CEO After Missteps

After a series of embarrassing revelations, ridesharing giant Uber faces challenges in keeping growth on track, with...

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Uber Skids Have Lyft Steering For Passing Lane

As Uber's gets dented by controversies, on-demand ride rival Lyft is accelerating expansion and out to pick up converts...

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Trump To Sign Revised Executive Order On Immigration Monday

US President Donald Trump is to sign a revised executive order on immigration Monday, after his first version was...

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Air India Claims Record With All-Female Round-World Flight

India's national airline claimed Monday to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely...

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Merritt Among Olympic Stars To Win US Indoor Athletics Titles

Former Olympic 110m hurdles champion Aries Merritt signaled a return to form after a 2015 kidney transplant by winning...

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In Day of Pro-Trump Rallies, California March Turns Violent

Supporters of Donald Trump clashed with counter-protesters at a rally in the famously left-leaning city of Berkeley,...

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Trump Expected To Sign Revised Travel Ban Monday

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a revised travel ban on Monday, just over a month after his original decree...

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Stowaway Mouse Grounds British Airways Heathrow Flight

A US-bound plane was unable to take off from Heathrow Airport after a mouse was spotted on board. Passengers on the...

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Asiacell To Offer Free Access To Wikipedia In Iraq

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said Tuesday that telecoms operator Asiacell will...

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Harassment Complaint At Prior Job Ends Road For New Uber Exec

A new engineering executive at Uber has left after the ride-sharing titan learned he ended his career at Google after a...

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Waldorf Astoria, Legendary New York Hotel, Closes For Facelift

It's goodbye for now to the grand Art Deco lobby and celebrities crossing paths en route to "The Towers" at the Waldorf...

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Uber Image Battered By Company Culture Skids

Accusations of sexism, cut-throat management, and a toxic work environment have Uber trying to pull its image out of a...

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A Viewpoint From Overseas; Demystifying the Free SHS Voodoo

After 60 years of independence, we’re still arguing about the pros and cons of a Free Senior High School education....

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Bushmeat Trade Tests Cameroon’s Ebola Prevention

The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial...