Month: May 2019

Walmart Inc-owned e-commerce firm Flipkart is in talks to buy Indian grocery chain Namdhari’s Fresh, CNBC-TV18 reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

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E-commerce giant Amazon has reached out to Israeli retailers to enable them to sell directly to customers in Israel using its online platform.

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Alphabet Inc’s Google, the largest U.S. digital advertising platform, is facing increased competition from sites where people purchase products and places thought to be safe from potentially offensive content, advertising buyers say.

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Wall Street’s main indexes were set to open higher on Wednesday, as Apple Inc’s stellar results and forecast calmed concerns over slowing growth in corporate profits in the run up to the Federal Reserve’s latest policy announcement.

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Hulu on Wednesday said it has reached 26.8 million paid subscribers, a milestone that suggested rapid growth in the first four months of the year.

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GlaxoSmithKline forecast 2019 sales of its fast-growing shingles vaccine Shingrix to be “significantly” more than 1 billion pounds ($1.31 billion) on Wednesday as the British drugmaker outpaced first quarter forecasts.

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Any country using oil as a weapon could cause the collapse of oil producer group OPEC, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Wednesday, according to SHANA, the news outlet of the oil ministry.

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U.S. stock index futures jumped on Wednesday, pointing to a strong open for Wall Street as Apple Inc’s stellar results and forecast allayed concerns about slowing growth in corporate profits.

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Yum Brands Inc beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly sales at established outlets on Wednesday, boosted by strong growth at its KFC chain.

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GlaxoSmithKline Plc reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue and earnings on Wednesday, as sales of the British drugmaker’s fast-growing shingles vaccine surged another 60 percent.

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Yum Brands Inc beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly sales at established outlets on Wednesday, as strong growth at its KFC chain made up for another weak performance at Pizza Hut.

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Anyone who uses oil as a weapon is creating the death and collapse of OPEC, Iran’s oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Wednesday, according to SHANA, the news site of the oil ministry.

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When Warren Buffett takes the stage at Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s shareholders’ meeting on Saturday, the 88-year-old billionaire will be greeted, as usual, by tens of thousands of adoring followers from around the world.

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Educational publishers McGraw-Hill Education Inc and Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc are planning an all-stock merger, McGraw-Hill said on Wednesday.

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Allergan Plc shareholders have voted down a proposal to order the immediate split of the roles of chairman and chief executive, with 61.3 percent of shareholders backing Chairman and CEO Brent Saunders.

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