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Amazon.com brings Alexa to Brazil, kicks off pre-orders for devices

Amazon.com Inc will launch its virtual assistant Alexa in Brazil starting this month, with plans for three different devices with the software installed, as it rapidly expands operations in Latin America’s largest economy. “This is a particularly exciting moment for Amazon in Brazil,” Amazon’s international director for Alexa, Michele Butti, told journalists on Wednesday, adding the company has hired a local team to adapt Alexa to Portuguese language. …read more […]

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GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian stocks slide as US tariffs on EU fan growth worries

Asian stocks skidded to a one-month low on Thursday after the United States opened a new front in its trade dispute with Europe by imposing tariffs, adding to already-growing market fears about global growth. Australian shares slumped 2.13% to a five-week low. U.S. stock futures were up 0.25%, but this did little to bolster sentiment after shares on Wall Street suffered their sharpest one-day decline in nearly six weeks on Wednesday, when the three major New York share indexes all lost more than 1.5%. …read more […]

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UPDATE 1-U.S. committee seeks to interview Boeing engineer on safety of 737 MAX

A U.S. panel has asked Boeing Co to make an engineer available for an interview regarding an internal ethics complaint the engineer filed on the safety of the now-grounded 737 MAX jet. The engineer said in the complaint filed this year that during the development of the 737 MAX, Boeing had rejected a safety system to minimize costs, the New York Times had reported https://nyti.ms/2nOUo1J earlier. The engineer, who worked on cockpit instruments and controls, felt the safety system could have reduced risks that contributed to two fatal crashes that killed 346 people in Ethiopia and Indonesia, according …read more […]

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U.S. panel probing 737 MAX seeks to interview Boeing engineer: Bloomberg

The engineer said in the complaint filed earlier this year that during the development of the 737 MAX jet, Boeing had rejected a safety system to minimize costs, the New York Times had reported earlier. The engineer felt the safety system could have reduced risks that contributed to two fatal crashes that killed 346 people, the NYT report had said. The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Peter DeFazio, said this added to his concern that production pressures may have impacted safety on the 737, according to Bloomberg. …read more […]

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Boeing CEO: Preliminary investigations show 737 Max pilots exposed to 'high workload environment'

Pilots who were unable to save two separate commercial Boeing 737 Max airplanes from crashes that killed 346 people were exposed to a “high workload environment,” Boeing’s (BA) CEO Dennis Muilenburg said Wednesday during an address to the Economic Club of New York in Manhattan. …read more […]