Apple CEO Tim Cook and US President Donald Trump are probably as far removed from each other on the political scale as its possible for two people to be. However, the big boss man in Cupertino appears to be learning a thing or two from ...
The toy firm revealed the news in its 2016 year-end earnings report. Hasbro has revealed plans to cut its gender categories in all of its future revenue reports. The company detailed the decision within its 2016 year-end earnings ...
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Colombia in January will begin importing 39 MMcf/d of natural gas from neighboring Venezuela to meet domestic needs, ending decades of natural gas self sufficiency, the head of Ecopetrol said Monday. The country is negotiating to increase ...
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Less than four years after acquiring GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion, eBay Inc. announced Wednesday it was studying whether to spin off the business in IPO as part of a broadening restructuring. The company disclosed the plans in its ...
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This year is proving to be a pretty good year for many medtech companies. The majority of the largest 40 have seen their stock prices rise by double-digit percentages in 2014, according to a Qmed analysis. Meanwhile, only eight have seen ...
Tags: Medtech Companies, Medical device
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s economy has grown to surpass the peak it reached in 2008, before the global banking crisis caused a deep recession, official figures showed Friday. The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic ...
Like the kid on the playground who watches others hop on and off the spinning merry-go-round, Boston Scientific says it will sit out the current whirl of medtech mergers. Following last week’s second-quarter earnings report, ...
US methanol contract prices are expected to drop sharply for June following rapidly declining spot prices in recent months, sources said Thursday. June contract announcements from Methanex and Southern Chemical Corp. were expected to be ...
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Even in a quarter that saw no product introductions, Apple boosted its sales and profits over the previous year. The company released its fiscal second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, reporting revenue of $45.6 billion and a net ...
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Intuitive Surgical stock fell 11.5% in value on Wednesday after a disappointing quarterly earnings report and the FDA raising cancer concerns over how robotic hysterectomies are performed. The Sunnyvale, CA–based maker of da Vinci ...
Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
Activist investor Carl Icahn fired off word on Tuesday that he beefed up his Apple stock holdings by a half-billion dollars as the share price dipped. "Just bought $500 mln more $AAPL shares," Icahn said in a message on Twitter. "My ...
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The U.S. Postal Service lost less money in its first fiscal quarter than the same period last year as it cut costs and increased revenue from its shipping and packing business. USPS had a $354 million loss in the quarter ended Dec. 31, ...
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Intel expects that its workforce will decline by 5 percent as it heads into a year in which revenue is likely to be flat. Intel announced its expectations for a decline in its workforce in the wake of its fourth quarter earnings report. ...
The axing this week of Yahoo's second-in-command sent a signal that reality is setting in for Silicon Valley sweetheart Marissa Mayer, who leads the struggling Internet pioneer. Hearts soared when Mayer was wooed away from rival Google in ...
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