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Trump 2020 manager Brad Parscale attacks social media companies

Albin Lohr-Jones | Pool via Bloomberg | Getty Images Brad Parscale, digital director for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, speaks at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 3, 2016. President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale attacked social media companies Monday for allegedly squashing speech in an interview on CBS …

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Trump slams media as ‘true Enemy of the People’ days after CNN targeted

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during an election rally in Murphysboro, Illinois on October 27, 2018.  In the wake of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue and a series of mail bombings addressed to prominent Democrats and CNN, President Donald Trump said Monday …

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Buy Apple stock for ‘massive’ services potential

Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, smiles during a demonstration of the newly released Apple products following the launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, September 12, 2018. Jefferies initiated coverage of Apple’s stock with a buy rating on Monday, estimating the tech giant …

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Trump slams Democratic donor Tom Steyer after he was target in bomb plot

Jahi Chikwendiu | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tom Steyer holds one of his Need to Impeach town hall meetings on March 20, 2018, in Largo, Md. President Trump ridiculed billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer Sunday on Twitter just days after Steyer was targeted in a bomb plot aimed at …

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China tariff effects started showing up in shipping data months ago

China’s latest report on economic growth fell short of expectations, but for those who monitor traffic on the global water highways, the news was not a surprise. In fact, freight and shipping data over the last several months have been pointing to such a slowdown. An investor can get an …

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IBM nears deal to buy Red Hat: Sources

Getty Images IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty arrives for her keynote address at CES 2016 January 6, 2016 in Las Vegas. IBM is near a deal to acquire open-source enterprise software firm Red Hat, sources told CNBC. The deal could be announced as early as Sunday. Bloomberg first …

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Ford CEO says fixing carmaker’s problems starts with identifying them

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jim Hackett, president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Co., speaks during a discussion at the Automotive News World Congress event in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018.  When Tesla delivered a rare and unexpected profit on Wednesday, investors went …

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Bitcoin is shockingly stable during the market sell-off this week

Anthony Wallace | AFP | Getty Images A woman touches an ATM machine for digital currency Bitcoin in Hong Kong on December 18, 2017. As U.S. stock markets went haywire this week, the major cryptocurrency known for giving investors whiplash was surprisingly calm. Bitcoin is up 1 percent for the …

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Oracle founder Larry Ellison discloses big personal stake in Tesla

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2016 conference in San Francisco, on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. Oracle founder, CTO and billionaire Larry Ellison disclosed that his second-largest personal investment is in Tesla. He made the statements at …

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Facebook takes down 82 more pages tied to Iran

Matt McClain | The Washington Post | Getty Images Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook said Friday it has taken down 82 more pages and accounts with ties to Iran that were posting politically charged memes. A combined 1 million users followed at least one of the accounts, which were live …

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