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Bumble Bee Foods to pay $6M in fees for horrific death of worker

Bumble Bee agrees to pay $6 millions in fees for the horrific death of an employee in 2012. Three years ago, Jose Melena, 62, was burned alive inside the Bumble Bee Foods industrial oven.

Aug 13, 2015 10:42 PM EDT

Hard hit by plunge in Motorola sales, Lenovo to slash 10% workforce

The Beijing-based Lenovo Group has decided to cut 10% white collar jobs numbering 3,200 after the sales fell by one-third in Motorola handsets.

Aug 13, 2015 8:32 AM EDT

Ohm Battery promises peace of mind by solving key problem areas in car battery technology

A next-generation car battery is in development that could solve several issues related to modern car batteries.

Aug 13, 2015 4:51 AM EDT

Chris Payne out as Tinder CEO after only five months; Sean Rad is taking back the position

Christopher Payne is out as Tinder CEO. Cofounder Sean Rad will take over and Greg Blatt is appointed as Tinder Executive Chairman.

Aug 13, 2015 4:42 AM EDT

Funding Circle lines up $1B funding for small business lending globally

Funding Circle is prodiving hassle-free funding to small business units at low cost of borrowing globally. It also offers risk management solutions to the entrepreeurs. It has already surpassed $1-bn mark in lending and decided to lend 1-bn funds to small businesses.

Aug 13, 2015 4:40 AM EDT

Legionnaire's Bacteria Forced GSK to Stop North Carolina Plant Operation

GlaxoSmithKline closes it North Carolina plant due to a Legionella bacteria's discovery in the cooling tanks of Zebulon plant after routine inspections. It will resume operation after the problem has been solved and confirms no expectation of a disrupt in medicine supply.

Aug 13, 2015 4:35 AM EDT

iRobot's robotic lawn mower gets U.S. regulatory approval, brings grass cutting to new heights

iRobot Corp Inc recently got approval from the Federal Communications Commission to manufacture and sell their new automated lawn mower.

Aug 13, 2015 4:27 AM EDT

Ford Targets Emerging Markets with Frugal India Build, In a Bid to Compete With its Rivals in 5th Largest Auto Market

Using India-based engineering, Ford aims to penetrate the India market in a bid to compete against its Asian rival auto companies that are outselling them in the arena.

Aug 13, 2015 4:16 AM EDT

Kraft Heinz terminates 2,500 jobs in the U.S. and Canada to save costs

Kraft Heinz is cutting 2,500 jobs around the United States and Canada. Seven hundred of it will include its labor force in Northfield, Illinois.

Aug 13, 2015 4:14 AM EDT

US banks lead the equity trading revenues in Q2

Morgan Stanely, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs account for 40% market share in equities trading. Many US banks registered encouraging growth in trading revenues.

Aug 13, 2015 4:10 AM EDT

Continued oil price crash reached lowest level

U.S. crude oil price falls down to its level in more than six years. Over-supply of crude seen as one of the reasons for the oil's low price including the China's yuan devaluation. While most crude oil consumers enjoy the benefits of getting lower fuel, oil industries suffer from low profits forcing them to cut on expenditures and employment.

Aug 13, 2015 4:06 AM EDT

Starbucks and 28 other US companies to create jobs for disconnected youth

More than two dozen companies in the US join Starbucks in assuring Americans to create 100,000 jobs for the unemployed youth by 2018.

Aug 13, 2015 3:46 AM EDT

General Electric to sell Healthcare Financial Services biz to Capital One for $9bn

GE has decided to sell its healthcare financial business unit to Capital One for $9bn. This is part of its business plan to offload $100-bn worth assets by 2015 end. GE to remain focused on its core business operations.

Aug 13, 2015 3:03 AM EDT

European banks lead other foreign banks' excess reserves at Fed, valued at $1 trillion

Foreign banks prefer to park their excess funds with the US Fed. The unprecedented rise of excess reserves at US Fed has become a cause of concern for the government.

Aug 13, 2015 2:54 AM EDT

Verizon develops technology making Internet 1,000 times faster

Good news for movie buffs. Verizon has successfully tested a new broadband technology allowing users to download a movie in a matter of seconds.

Aug 13, 2015 2:43 AM EDT

Analysts bet on Macy's, Alibaba, Cisco and News Corp; quarter earnings to be announced

Macy's, News Corp, Alibaba and Cisco are scheduled to report their quarterly revenue on Wednesday. Analysts are eyeing the movement of four companies in the stock market.

Aug 13, 2015 2:00 AM EDT

Judge Rules NYC Responsible Banking Act Unconstitutional as it Conflicts with Existing Federal and State Statutes

Responsible Banking Act that sought to be socially responsible to their low-income neighborhoods was deemed unconstitutional by the federal court.

Aug 12, 2015 11:03 PM EDT

Ford Motor Company moves production of F-650 and F-750 truck from Mexico to Ohio

Ford is moving its production of F-650 and F-750 commercial truck from Mexico to Ohio to save expenses.

Aug 12, 2015 10:54 PM EDT

Verizon dumps annual contracts; Here's how to save money with your phone bills

The nation’s largest wireless company is ditching its two-year service contracts, offering a new system that allows customers to buy phones upfront or pay for it through a two-year monthly program. This brings plenty of benefits, especially when it comes to saving more money for a phone.

Aug 12, 2015 10:50 PM EDT

Brands will surely get noticed at 2016 Olympics in 7 new ways

It is still a year before the 2016 Summer Olympic Game to be held in Rio de Janeiro, but different marketers of all sorts began the countdown. David Berkowitz, CMO of MYR said that his firm has released a report from Marketer's Road to the Olympics emphasizing the different marketing strategies to showcase brands.

Aug 12, 2015 10:47 PM EDT

Traders and hackers earned $100M on stocks from stealing news

Two hackers and a group of traders had earned $100M illegal profit on the stock market taking advantage of 80,000 cracked advance press releases from three online news websites for five years.

Aug 12, 2015 10:24 PM EDT

Warren Buffett buys aerospace supplier - his biggest acquisition ever

Warren Buffett makes his biggest acquisition ever, buying aerospace supplier Precision Castparts for $37.2 billion, including its debt. Buffett says the company's CEO Mark Donegan made quite an impression during their first meeting, prompting him to make an offer.

Aug 11, 2015 11:29 PM EDT

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