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Seattle City Council Repeals 'Head Tax' On Amazon, Etc. Weeks After Enactment

Seattle's city council voted on Tuesday to repeal a newly enacted 'head tax' imposed on the city's largest companies, including Amazon.com, in the face of...

Colgate-Palmolive Unveils Smart Toothbrush

Colgate-Palmolive has introduced the first app-enabled electronic toothbrush with artificial intelligence. The new Colgate ‘Smart Electronic Tooth...

Walmart.com Hiring Hundreds Of Employees To Take On Amazon Prime

Walmart.com is hiring swathes of tech workers in San Bruno and Sunnyvale in California, US in order to challenge the reigning leader of the e-commerce deli...

Walmart App Upgraded For Added Convenience

Walmart has announced it has upgraded the Walmart app, to create a more convenient in-store experience for customers using its pharmacy and money serv...

Amazon Plans $1.5 Billion Air Hub Near Cincinnati For Fleet

Amazon.com Inc. is building a new air hub near Cincinnati to support a growing fleet of planes that can move inventory around the US so online shoppers get...

Alibaba Finance Arm Tours Silicon Valley As It Preps For IPO

A team of executives from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s banking and payments arm recently visited Silicon Valley to size up potential investments and l...

MasterCard, Visa Try To Speed Chip Transactions After Complaints

Following complaints from retailers, MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. have introduced software that they say will speed up slow check-out times for shoppers w...

MasterCard Earnings Beat Estimates As Card Spending Increases

MasterCard Inc., the second-largest US payments network, reported profit that beat analysts’ estimates as card spending increased. First-quarter n...

Newfangled Credit Cards Cause Headaches At Stores Across America

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Seattle City Council Repeals 'Head Tax' On Amazon, Etc. Weeks After Enactment

Colgate-Palmolive Unveils Smart Toothbrush

Walmart.com Hiring Hundreds Of Employees To Take On Amazon Prime

Walmart App Upgraded For Added Convenience

Amazon Plans $1.5 Billion Air Hub Near Cincinnati For Fleet

Alibaba Finance Arm Tours Silicon Valley As It Preps For IPO

MasterCard, Visa Try To Speed Chip Transactions After Complaints

MasterCard Earnings Beat Estimates As Card Spending Increases

Newfangled Credit Cards Cause Headaches At Stores Across America

PayPal Scraps Charlotte Expansion Plan, Citing Anti-LGBT Law

Buying Chicken With a Smartphone: Tyson Goes High-Tech In China

NCR Revenue Fell 3 Per Cent in 2015, Matching The Company’s Expectations