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Reuters / Brendan McDermid

• The effects of tax reform could stir up some turmoil in what's expected to be an otherwise very strong earnings season, according to Goldman Sachs.
• The two areas to watch are required corporate write-downs of deferred tax items and the hundreds of millions of dollars S&P 500 companies will owe in taxes on overseas cash and earnings.

Fourth-quarter 2017 earnings season is set to kick off at the end of the week and Goldman Sachs is expecting a rocky ride... Читать дальше...

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting businesses, governments, and consumers and transforming how they interact with the world. Companies are going to spend almost $5 trillion on the IoT in the next five years — and the proliferation of connected devices and massive increase in data has started an analytical revolution. Читать дальше...

Reuters / Brendan McDermid

• The effects of tax reform could stir up some turmoil in what's expected to be an otherwise very strong earnings season, according to Goldman Sachs.
• The two areas to watch are required corporate write-downs of deferred tax items and the hundreds of millions of dollars S&P 500 companies will owe in taxes on overseas cash and earnings.

Fourth-quarter 2017 earnings season is set to kick off at the end of the week and Goldman Sachs is expecting a rocky ride... Читать дальше...

The French Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the US high-tech company Apple, accusing them of fraud in connection with their manufacturing practice for the so- planned depreciation, which deliberately slowing the operation of older models, "Iphone," reported French media quoting court sources.

A belated happy new year!  This isn’t the first post I was expecting to write in 2018, but for reasons which will become apparent, I’ve decided to take a more relaxed and spontaneous approach to the blog this year. There will still be coverage of new releases and guest posts, but since it goes down well, I’m going to be writing more of the content myself, including informal book reviews and pieces like this.  The travelogue on my recent trip to Vietnam is going to be for ...

Actress Gillian Anderson gets star on Walk of Fame Video provided by AFP

Bryan Coquard must endure the disappointment of missing the Tour de France for a second year after Vital Concept failed to earn a wild card invitation to this year’s race, but the Frenchman has insisted that he has no regrets about joining the nascent Pro Continental team.

The Philippines will file a formal diplomatic protest with China, which, according to Manila, violates an earlier promise not to militarize artificial islands in the South China Sea, according to media reports.

Now that President Trump has dissolved his shady voter fraud commission, a Supreme Court case being heard Wednesday represents fraud alarmists’ next best chance to boost their voter purge campaigns.

One in five employees of Finland's Armed Forces has admitted to having faced sexual harassment while on the job in a survey carried out to continue the conversation about sexual abuse and ways of reducing it.

US President Donald Trump's mixed reception from football fans on his political home turf in the US south on Monday underscored the risk in his unrelenting and contentious focus on core supporters.

Fighting sexual harassment, fake news, and myriad other global challenges, this cohort of innovators is the latest to be trained and featured by the innovation conference.

Only a year ago, Nintendo was in the midst of a severe corporate crisis. Its flagship console, the Wii U, had been comprehensively wrecked by its competitors, Sony's Playstation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One. Hemorrhaging money, the company was considering moving out of the hardware market altogether, and focusing on developing games for consoles and mobile devices.

The disturbing viral video critiques food-porn culture, its creator says.

Democrats punted the immigration fight in December, but with another shutdown deadline looming, Dreamer activists are warning them not to do so again.

As Amazon builds up its distribution network, it’s hit on a trick long practiced by the likes of Walmart: using the federal government to help pay its workers. A new study by Policy Matters Ohio found that more than 700 Amazon employees receive food stamps, or more than 10 percent of the tech giant’s 6,000-strong workforce in the state. Some of those recipients may be part-time help, but the fact that they need federal aid to survive suggests that they would be happy to work more. “Why is this giant... Читать дальше...

It says nothing good about the state of surveillance reform that Congress is considering flipping the Fourth Amendment on its head. In a bid to put a patina of reform on a key spying program, Congress is poised to make it harder for the FBI to spy on those whom the agency has probable cause to believe have committed a crime. But while this provides a layer of protection against invasive searches to those suspected of wrongdoing, there is no such protection for anyone else, which means it would... Читать дальше...

National Public Radio has never really established an audience among teens. It is, overwhelmingly, the radio station that parents choose, and that they often inflict on their teenage children while driving them around—which is, of course, something the parents of teenagers do for several hours per day. The natural mistrust of All Things Considered, on the part of teenagers, is the reason I got very nervous when I saw that Google and Pocket were spotlighting an article from NPR entitled “Why Teens... Читать дальше...

There’s a common question that’s asked any time a company rolls out a new set of SDKs or APIs: “How do I get started?” That’s not the real question, of course. At heart, it’s a placeholder for a more complex set of questions that boil down to this: It’s not a question of starting coding but a question of whether the platform can meet business needs. Anyone can code a Hello World app, but not every platform can deliver a line-of-business application.

According to a recent report by cloud and datcenter vendor Rackspace, “Nearly three quarters of IT decision-makers (71 percent) believe their organizations have lost revenue due to a lack of cloud expertise. On average, this accounts for 5 percent of total global revenue, or $258,188,279 per organization.”

Durban - ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said a rerun of the KwaZulu-Natal elective conference would unite disgruntled factions in the province.

Ramaphosa made the comments at the gravesite of the ANC’s founding president, John Langalibalele Dube, at Ohlange Institute in Inanda.