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News Hour: Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey snapped up more than half a million of the company’s shares for about $9.5 million, a regulatory filing on Friday showed. Dorsey bought 574,002 Twitter shares in multiple...

News Hour: Samsung and Apple maintained their leadership in the smartphone market in early 2017 while Chinese-based Huawei’s strong growth cemented its number three position, a market tracker said on Thursday. Research firm IDC said overall...

News Hour: Asian investors on Friday wound down after a strong week, with profit-taking weighing on most markets and attention turning to the release of US growth data later in the day. Regional equities have seen...

News Hour: Magnetis Gestora de Recursos Ltda, Brazil’s first fintech asset manager, expects demand for affordable access to automated investment advice to surge in coming years as interest rates decline and economic uncertainty persists. Luciano Tavares,...

News Hour: Didi Chuxing, China’s top ride-hailing firm, is set to become the country’s second-most valuable privately owned company, with a valuation of more than $50 billion, through a fundraising round of up to $6 billion,...

News Hour: Apple Inc has held talks with payments industry partners about launching a money-transfer service, technology news website Recode reported on Thursday. The service will allow iPhone owners to transfer money digitally to other iPhone...

News Hour: A South Korean court on Wednesday ruled that the ride-hailing group Uber Technologies Inc illegally used private vehicles for commercial purposes, in the latest legal setback for the U.S. firm in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy....

News Hour: PepsiCo Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit as the company benefited from demand for its healthier drinks and snacks and kept a tight leash on costs. The company’s shares, which had risen 9.1 percent...

News Hour: Shares of Twitter Inc soared in premarket trade on Wednesday after the microblogging service reported better-than-expected user growth. Despite stiff competition from Facebook Inc and Snap Inc, Twitter’s monthly active users, one of the...

News Hour: In conjunction with the Restaurant Leadership Conference (RLC), Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, and Spendgo, provider of personalized customer engagement solutions for stores, mobile apps and...