Business
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Barrick Gold Corp to partner with Cisco Systems to incorporate digital technology to improve productivity and efficiency
Sep 12, 2016News Hour: Barrick Gold Corp, the world’s biggest gold producer, said on Monday it would partner with Cisco Systems to incorporate digital technology in all aspects of its mining business, aiming to improve productivity and efficiency.... -
OpenText Corp agreed to buy Dell-EMC’s enterprise content division for $1.62 billion
Sep 12, 2016News Hour: Canadian business software maker OpenText Corp said it agreed to buy Dell-EMC’s enterprise content division for $1.62 billion as it looks to expand its services to larger businesses. The Dell-EMC enterprise content division (ECD)... -
$305 million raised by SolarCity to fund its projects
Sep 12, 2016News Hour: Solar panel installer SolarCity Corp, which is being bought by Tesla Motors Inc for $2.6 billion, said on Monday it had raised $305 million to fund its projects. A private investment fund affiliated with... -
LinkedIn launched “Lite” version of its website for mobile browsing in India
Sep 12, 2016News Hour: LinkedIn Corp, the operator of the world’s largest online business networking service, has launched in India a “Lite” version of its website for mobile browsing. The company, which is being acquired by Microsoft Corp,... -
Audi agreed to deepen collaboration with Chinese internet technology groups to offer more digital services
Sep 11, 2016News Hour: Volkswagen’s luxury car unit Audi has agreed to deepen collaboration with Chinese internet technology groups to offer more digital services in the world’s largest car market. Audi and FAW-Volkswagen, VW’s joint venture with FAW... -
Singapore join UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative
Sep 10, 2016News Hour: Singapore became the newest member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative as it hosted the initiative’s Fifth Global Dialogue. Singapore joins 58 other partner stock exchanges, including the London and New... -
Twitter shares drop as pressure mounted to ignite growth
Sep 10, 2016News Hour: Twitter shares were down nearly six percent at the close of trading on Thursday as pressure mounted to ignite growth or find a suitor for the global one-to-many messaging service. The company’s shares ended... -
China’s producer prices fell at slowest rate for more than 4 years
Sep 10, 2016News Hour: China’s producer prices fell at their slowest rate for more than four years in August, the government said on Friday,another sign of stabilization in the world’s second-largest economy. The news comes a day after... -
54 years old trade embargo of the US has cost Cuba $4.7 billion
Sep 10, 2016News Hour: Cuba said on Friday the United States’s 54- year-old trade embargo has cost the island $4.7 billion since April 2015 despite the former Cold War enemies’ historic rapprochement, reports BSS. Washington and Havana announced... -
Oil prices fell heavily on profit-taking
Sep 10, 2016News Hour: Oil prices fell heavily on Friday on profit- taking, losing nearly all of the previous session’s sizeable gains. But the market netted gains for the week amid hopes of an OPEC-Russia deal to tackle...
