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News Hour: Tokyo stocks moved slightly higher in early trading on Friday as a weaker yen boosted exporters, but gains were capped by Wall Street declines after a key vote on US health care reform was...

News Hour: Fast food startup Eatsa is being sued by disability rights advocates for not including accessibility features for the blind. Eatsa lets customers order from tablets and pick up their food minutes later from cubicles,...

News Hour: Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies is rethinking its car leasing strategy in India, its second-biggest market, as drivers have returned dozens of leased cars early after the company cut incentives, people familiar with the...

News Hour: Uber Canada on Thursday urged the Canadian government to retain a tax advantage available to ride-services companies, a day after the country’s Liberal administration proposed removing the measure. The new national budget unveiled on...

News Hour: Micron Technology Inc forecast current-quarter revenue and profit far ahead of analysts’ estimates as prices for memory chips climb amid tight supplies and demand surges for storage chips used in smartphones. Shares of the...

News Hour: Twitter Inc is considering whether to build a premium version of its popular Tweetdeck interface aimed at professionals, the company said on Thursday, raising the possibility that it could collect subscription fees from some...

News Hour: Amazon.com Inc on Thursday won a more than $1.5 billion tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over transactions involving a Luxembourg unit more than a decade ago. Judge Albert Lauber of the U.S....

News Hour: A police investigation into alleged unsanitary and corrupt practices has badly damaged the reputation of Brazil’s meatpacking industry and could wipe more than 10 percent off its global market share, Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi...

News Hour: India’s top software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services will step up local hiring in the United States and has no plans to cut investments there as it continues to expect robust growth from its...

News Hour: Shares of Snap Inc jumped 9 percent on Wednesday after the owner of messaging app Snapchat received a second analyst “buy” rating following a red-hot public listing this month and with Wall Street skeptical...