Business Stories from May 11, 2019 (Change date)
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Potential sale of shuttered GM plant clouded with doubtMay 11, 2019 7:00 am - A potential deal to sell a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio is still leaving the factory's future very much up in the air. One reason is that the buyer looking at ...
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Trump's tariffs on China: What are they? How do they work?May 11, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has heightened tensions with China by escalating his tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods from 10% to 25%. As a tool of nati...
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Uber, Lyft losses keep competitors at bayMay 11, 2019 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A fare war between Uber and Lyft has led to billions of dollars in losses for both ride-hailing companies as they fight for passengers and drivers. ...
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Analysis: Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole timeMay 11, 2019 6:24 am - Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, "Are you crazy?" Yet that's essentially what Amazon has been doi...
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How the Apple store lost its lusterMay 11, 2019 6:23 am - Web Smith's recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration. There was the time he visited the Easton To...
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Why does Facebook fail to fix itself? It's partly humansMay 11, 2019 6:22 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The question comes up over and over, with extremist material, hate speech, election meddling and privacy invasions. Why can't Facebook just fix it? ...
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Inside Facebook, the second-class workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battleMay 11, 2019 6:20 am - AUSTIN, Texas - The thousands of people who do the bulk of Facebook's work keeping the site free of suicides, massacres, and other graphic posts are not Facebook employe...
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Analysis: How Spotify is turning the anti-Apple volume up to 11May 11, 2019 6:19 am - Brussels looks like the next battlefield for music streaming. Spotify Technology wants the European Union to probe Apple over the 30 percent cut of paid subscriptions th...
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Google vows greater user privacy, after decades of data collectionMay 11, 2019 6:09 am - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google is jumping on the latest tech trend: privacy. At its annual conference for software developers, the search and advertising giant showed of...
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Video game 'loot boxes' could be outlawed in many gamesMay 11, 2019 6:00 am - Video games popular among kids would be prohibited from offering “loot boxes” or randomized assortments of digital weapons, clothing and other items that can be purchase...
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