April2017
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AT&T Inc to buy Straight Path Communications Inc for $1.25 billion in an all-stock deal
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: U.S. wireless carrier AT&T Inc said on Monday it would buy Straight Path Communications Inc, a holder of licenses to wireless spectrum, for $1.25 billion in an all-stock deal. The No.2 U.S. carrier said... -
India’s Flipkart raised $1.4 billion in its biggest fundraising it takes on Amazon for a larger share
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: India’s top e-commerce firm Flipkart has raised $1.4 billion in its biggest fundraising to date as it takes on U.S. tech giant Amazon.com Inc for a larger share of the country’s burgeoning online retail... -
More than 5 million businesses are advertising on the social network each month, says Facebook
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: Facebook Inc plans to announce on Monday that more than 5 million businesses are advertising on the social network each month and that it is updating its suite of ad services to try to... -
Toyota to spend $1.33 billion in its Kentucky plant
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp said it is spending $1.33 billion in its Kentucky plant as part of a plan to invest $10 billion in the United States over the next five years. The... -
Roche’s Alecensa kept people with lung cancer alive longer than Pfizer’s Xalkori
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: Roche’s Alecensa kept people with a specific lung cancer alive longer without their disease progressing than Pfizer’s Xalkori, the Swiss drugmaker said on Monday, as it seeks to move in on the U.S. company’s... -
Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd will invest 70 billion yuan in a health park in China
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd will invest 70 billion yuan ($10 billion) in a health park in China’s southwest, the firm said in a statement sent to Reuters on Monday, as some of the... -
Oil price rose towards $56 a barrel supported by another shutdown at Libya’s largest oilfield
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: Oil rose towards $56 a barrel on Monday, supported by another shutdown at Libya’s largest oilfield, tension over Syria following the U.S. missile strike and signs that an OPEC-led supply cut is helping to... -
Swiss researchers developed a wireless camera system to monitor vital signs in premature babies
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: Swiss researchers said on Monday they have developed a wireless camera system to monitor vital signs in premature babies, a move that could replace uncomfortable and highly inaccurate skin sensors. The skin sensors currently... -
Edward Snowden: These families ‘helped keep me free’
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: It was nearly midnight when Vanessa Mae Rodel, a Filipino asylum seeker living in Hong Kong, heard a knock at the door of her tiny apartment. She wasn’t expecting any visitors, but opened the... -
Assad allies vow reprisals against attacks on Syria
Apr 10, 2017News Hour: Allies of Damascus have threatened reprisals against any party that carries out “aggression” against Syria, two days after US missile strikes hit a Syrian airbase. “The aggression against Syria oversteps all red lines. We...
