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Amazon drops free-shipping minimum in race for holiday sales Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart and other rivals vying for customers' Christmas shopping.

Facebook opens its first small biz pop-up stores inside Macy’s Facebook is bursting out of the ones and zeros into the physical realm with nine brick-and-mortar pop-up stores that will show off goods from 100 small business and online brands. The merchants will be part of The Market @ Macy’s...

Amazon opens yet another retail store, this time in Berkeley, Calif. Halloween’s over, and that means retail is in full holiday mode. For Amazon, that also means a couple of new shipping offers and, apparently, the launch of a bunch of new brick and mortar locations. (TechCrunch)

Gates Toilets The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $200 million on sanitation research, and on Tuesday Bill Gates showed off 20 new toilet and sludge-processing designs at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing. This is serious stuff. As Bloomberg notes: "Every dollar invested in...

Paid Vacation If an employee in the EU dies without having claimed all the paid vacation time they were owed, their heirs can claim a payout from the employer. That's the gist of a ruling issued this morning by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU's top court, which was deciding a...

Fraudster (64) jailed and required to pay £1.9m confiscation order Posted on 5th November 2018 in In Court Adrian Eyre jailed for seven and half years A 64-year-old company director has been jailed for seven and half years at Bristol Crown Court for masterminding an elaborate £7m investment...

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COMPANIES AND EARNINGS ByJohn Butters | November 5, 2018 During the month of October, analysts lowered earnings estimates for companies in the S&P 500 for the fourth quarter. The Q4 bottom-up EPS estimate (which is an aggregation of the median EPS estimates for all the companies in the index)...

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$8.33 billion in sales expected for Sprint Corp. this quarter Wall Street analysts expect Sprint Corp. to post $8.33 billion in sales for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Twelve analysts have made estimates for Sprint’s earnings. The highest sales estimate is...

Win $2 million to solve Alzheimer’s: New prize will reward fresh ideas A Texas billionaire is funding a new competition that will give $4 million to seven individuals who present promising ideas about the cause of Alzheimer’s disease and say they’ll work to prove it. Called the Oskar Fischer...

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“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” - John Dewey

Bohemian Rhapsody The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody topped the U.S. box office on the weekend—surprisingly, given less-than-rhapsodic reviews for the film, though Rami Malek's performance as Freddie Mercury went down well with critics. The movie took $50 million from U.S. and Canadian...

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"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride,,and never quit ..you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards." - Paul Bear Bryant