March2018
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Accenture Plc trimmed its yearly forecast for profit margins, driving its stock down 6 percent
Mar 22, 2018Consulting services firm Accenture Plc trimmed its yearly forecast for profit margins, driving its stock down 6 percent on Thursday and overshadowing quarterly results that comfortably topped Wall Street targets. Accenture now expects fiscal 2018 operating... -
BMW not to mass produce electric cars until 2020
Mar 22, 2018BMW will not mass produce electric cars until 2020 because its current technology is not profitable enough to scale up for volume production, the chief executive said on Thursday. Munich-based BMW unveiled its first battery electric... -
Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
Mar 22, 2018A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as... -
British scientists developed a lightweight and highly sensitive brain imaging device to be used as helmate
Mar 22, 2018British scientists have developed a lightweight and highly sensitive brain imaging device that can be worn as a helmet, allowing the patient to move about naturally. Results from tests of the scanner showed that patients were... -
Novartis teams up with Harvard to develop next generation biomaterial systems to deliver immunotherapies
Mar 22, 2018Novartis announced that it is teaming up with scientists from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to develop biomaterial systems for its portfolio of immuno-oncology therapies. The... -
Dollar, shares buffeted by trade war worries
Mar 22, 2018The threat of a global trade war and a steady message from the Federal Reserve on U.S. interest rates pushed the dollar to its lowest in over a month on Thursday and took Europe’s main share... -
Two killed as suspect in attempted assassination of Palestinian PM arrested in Gaza
Mar 22, 2018Hamas-run security forces in Gaza detained a main suspect in last week’s assassination attempt against Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah after a gunbattle on Thursday in which two security officers were killed, a security official said.... -
Assad closer to Ghouta victory, as some rebels prepare to quit
Mar 22, 2018The Syrian government moved closer to ending rebel resistance in eastern Ghouta as civilians streamed out of one of its besieged, bomb-battered towns on Thursday and insurgents prepared to surrender another. The army assault on eastern... -
Killing of aid workers in Nigeria a setback for troubled crisis response
Mar 22, 2018Islamist insurgents arrived in the northeastern Nigerian town of Rann on March 1. Ignoring the camp for 55,000 people displaced by the region’s conflict, they stormed the nearby military base. Inside, the gunmen executed eight security... -
Scotland’s female leaders tell Twitter: Clamp down on online abuse of women
Mar 22, 2018Scotland’s three most powerful female politicians have called on Twitter to do more to stop online abuse and harassment of women. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson and former Scottish Labour leader Kezia...
