Nowadays, employers not only worry about the health of their companies’ balance sheet but that of employees’ too. Notably, the business sector is more sensitive to the productivity of the employee today more than decades ago. This is because the competition is tighter and the business landscape is much more […]
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would rather not think about 2018. Notably, the year saw the digital currencies shave off huge chunks of their value. For instance, bitcoin lost over 80% of its peak value at the end of 2017. However, the decline of the traditional digital currencies gave way to […]
China has come a long way since it opened its economy to international markets. Today, China and the United States are the two world’s largest economies. Notably, the two are also the biggest buyers and sellers of products and services between them. However, Americans have been buying more from China […]
AT&T has announced that it is offering a free subscription to HBO to more wireless customers. Beginning Friday AT&T customers who are subscribed to the midmarket Unlimited Choice plan will receive HBO at no extra cost. Earlier in the year the telecommunications giant started giving a free HBO subscription to […]
A panel of medical advisers that is independent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted on Friday 10 to 4 in favor of approval for a gout drug from AstraZeneca. All of the 10 who supported the drug, known as lesinurad, qualified the vote by urging the U.S. regulatory […]
Salesforce bot automation, while just a part of a bigger picture in the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) push, has already revolutionized customer relationship management (CRM) for many clients. How Salesforce Bot Automation Transforms CRM One of the biggest clients of Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) is KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which it […]
Olive Garden posted quarterly sales that increased by 3.4% at its established restaurants as customers spent more money at the Italian chain that has been struggling. Darden Restaurants, the parent company, has moved away from heavy discounting that the restaurant relied on to increase traffic. Included in those deep discounts […]
Alibaba Group Holding agreed to acquire Youku Tudou the video service in a deal that is said to be $4.8 billion, as Jack Ma the billionaire is seeking to stream additional content to Internet users in China through control of the site that is compared to YouTube. Net of the […]
Communications company AT&T has announced the rollout of its GigaPower service, a service that provides superfast internet speeds to its users. For $70 per month, customers can get connectivity of 1 gigabit per second. For $50 more, they can also add a basic TV package to their services. The service […]
It has only been a few days since a report was released to show that federal student loans have seen a double-digit increase in defaults, but President Donald Trump’s administration has already revoked federal guidance which had earlier barred student debt collectors from charging high fees on those loans which […]