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Anindito Mukheriee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during a news conference in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Google employees are calling on the company to cancel Project Dragonfly, an effort to create a censored search engine in China. …
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Manchester United players are paid the highest Premier League salaries
Catherine Ivill/Getty Images Alexis Sanchez of Manchester United celebrates after scoring his sides first goal during The Emirates FA Cup Semi Final match between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium on April 21, 2018 in London, England. Premier League soccer team Manchester United pays its players an average …
Read More »Tesla shares drop 2% after report says China sales sank 70% in October
Ron Sachs | Pool via Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Shares of electric car maker Tesla fell on Tuesday following a report that its vehicle sales in China plunged 70 percent in October from a year ago. Tesla shares lost 2 percent in premarket trading. An …
Read More »Waymo’s Chinese competitor Pony.ai is pacing itself in driverless cars
Dave Zhong/Getty Images for CNBC International Hu Wen, COO of poni.ai, speaks during Fireside Chat on Day 1 of CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel Nansha Guangzhou on November 27, 2018 in Nansha, Guangzhou, China. Chinese start-up Pony.ai is trying to take on Google’s Waymo by taking a …
Read More »Nansha party secretary on “dreams” of Greater Bay Area
Dave Zhong | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Cai Chaolin, party secretary of CPC Nansha Committee, speaks at CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel in Nansha, Guangzhou on November 27, 2018. The Nansha district of Guangzhou, China, has the potential to become a “city where dreams are …
Read More »Guangzhou’s high-tech scene has exploded in the last few years
Dave Zhong | Getty Images for CNBC International CNBC Presents East Tech West – Day 1 NANSHA, CHINA – NOVEMBER 27: Wang Dong, Deputy Mayor of Guangzhou, speaks during Day 1 of CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel Nansha Guangzhou on November 27, 2018 in Nansha, Guangzhou, China. …
Read More »We should all have a little more faith in the UK’s ability to weather storms
Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters The Union Flag flies near the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, June 7, 2017. Winston Churchill once said that the British are “the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” In these turbo-charged political …
Read More »CDC confirms 116 cases of polio-like illness, acute flaccid myelitis
Armando L. Sanchez | Tribune News Service | Getty Images David Kulakowski, 38, and Jessica Kulakowski, 31, watch their son Chase Kulakowski, 3, play in their Dyer, Ind., home on October 15, 2018. Chase contracted acute flaccid myelitis two years ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention so far …
Read More »Google spends $1 billion on property in Mountain View
Brooks Kraft | Getty Images Google employees arriving after bicycling to work at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. Google just made another giant move in its Silicon Valley land grab. The internet company spent $1 billion on a large office park near its headquarters in Mountain View, California, according …
Read More »Trump says US could slap 10% tariffs on iPhones, laptops from China
Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping make joint statements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017. President Donald Trump suggested he could place a 10% tariff on iPhones and laptops imported from China, in an interview with the Wall …
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