Articles filed under Bloomberg
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More women than ever are putting off retirementSep 25, 2016 7:11 am - More older Americans are working longer. Women, new research suggests, are much of the reason why. Working into your late 60s and even 70s is hardly as rare as it used t...
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Marriott's next battle: the Expedia warSep 24, 2016 7:20 am - The bidding war for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. made global headlines as Marriott International fended off China's Anbang Insurance Group Co. to become the ...
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For EBay CEO, beating Amazon means trying not to be AmazonSep 24, 2016 7:18 am - EBay Chief Executive Officer Devin Wenig took the stage in a Las Vegas convention center with arms raised like a prize fighter after winning a stunning upset. This was t...
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Self-driving cars may force error-prone human motorists off the roadSep 24, 2016 7:15 am - New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driv...
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Google shows up late in crowded digital-assistant fieldSep 24, 2016 7:13 am - Google unleashed its digital assistant for the first time, arriving late to the intensifying race among the largest technology companies to create a more personal and lu...
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An 'interview' with Google's new digital assistantSep 24, 2016 7:10 am - Alphabet's Google unit introduced a new digital assistant Wednesday. Bloomberg News put the system through its paces by asking questions, some of which were suggested by...
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BlackBerry selling a new device - but it's not a phoneSep 24, 2016 7:10 am - BlackBerry Ltd. found a customer for its fleet-tracking device, taking a first step into the crowded market for monitoring cargo trucks and trains. The Waterloo, Ontario...
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Bill Ford: Robot-car ethics need urgent societal reviewSep 18, 2016 7:15 am - The great-grandson of Henry Ford called on the auto industry and public institutions to address ethical issues emerging in a world where robot cars will make life-and-de...
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A tiny power plant you could swallow to fight cancerSep 17, 2016 7:30 am - Human beings benefit from more than four billion years of evolution in bioenergy. But come on. We can do better than that. So a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon U...
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Viacom, Mattel, Hasbro agree to stop online child trackerSep 17, 2016 7:21 am - Children visiting websites for SpongeBob SquarePants, Barbie and other popular kids' brands will no longer have their personal data illegally tracked for marketing purpo...