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Privacy Enforcement A draft decision was supposed to appear by the end of this year in the first really big enforcement of the EU's tough GDPR privacy law—a case involving WhatsApp that could theoretically cost parent Facebook billions of euros. However, the Irish regulator handling the case...

Boeing Deals Boeing has scored deals for another 50 of its contentious 737 Max aircraft, which have been grounded around the world following two fatal crashes. Kazakhstan's Air Astana wants 30, and another unidentified customer wants 20 more. Turkey's SunExpress bought 10 on Monday, too...

Automation Fears UPS CEO David Abney said yesterday at the Fortune Global Forum in Paris that the logistics giant won't need to shed jobs due to its increasing use of automation—as long as the company keeps growing. The issue has caused friction between management and drivers' unions before...

Flight Shame European airlines are feeling pressure from "flight shame," Air France CEO Anne Rigail said at the Fortune Global Forum in Paris yesterday. Rigail said the phenomenon—where passengers shun air travel because of the carbon emissions—isn't so strongly felt in Asia and the U.S. But...

AmEx Payments American Express is paying companies tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to accept its cards, in a bid to catch up with Visa and Mastercard in the acceptance stakes. AmEx investors have been pressing the firm to close the gap, and the payments show its difficulties in doing...

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“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.” - George Lucas

“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” - Thomas Edison

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TECH ESA says placing astronauts in hibernation is ‘actually not so crazy’ By Associated Press November 18, 2019 | 12:37pm Enlarge Image Shutterstock MORE ON: ASTRONAUTS Astronauts start series of spacewalks to fix cosmic ray detector Astronaut casts Pennsylvania absentee ballot from...

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Thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts are being sold on dark web By Noah Manskar November 19, 2019 | 8:09am | Updated Enlarge Image Attendees visit the Disney+ streaming service booth at the D23 Expo.AFP via Getty Images MORE ON: DISNEY Netflix stock weathering Disney+ streaming launch Hulu...

Kohl’s shares sink after quarterly earnings miss By Reuters November 19, 2019 | 10:40am Enlarge Image Shutterstock MORE ON: KOHLS Stocks surge as Christmas spared tariff price hikes Kohl's cuts profit estimates, sending its shares tumbling New Target to replace Toys 'R' Us in Brooklyn...

When the going gets tough, the truffles quit growing… And that issue is quickly mushrooming into a big problem for purveyors of the world’s fanciest fungus. The white truffle trade is a lucrative business. High quality white truffles are often worth twice their weight in gold… and a single...

Fake News Creates Real Losses The rise of fake news has translated into a $39 billion annual loss in the stock market, new research shows. Alicia McElhaney November 18, 2019 Illustration by II The rise of fake news has plagued the U.S. for years, prompting researchers to measure its...

"You are blessed. Make the most of it." - John McCain

“He conquers who endures.” - Persius

Supreme Court denies Martin Shkreli’s appeal of fraud conviction By Kate Sheehy November 18, 2019 | 11:40am | Updated MARTIN SHKRELI[/paste:font] Pharma felon Martin Shkreli files fraud suit against trial witness Martin Shkreli's fraud conviction affirmed by appeals court Martin Shkreli's...

Tablets are the latest type of tech to play dumb Imagine what would happen if your Moleskine-carrying hipster friend and iPad-idolizing nerd friend ran at each other really fast and became one person. That person would probably be really into so-called paper tablets, which let users sketch and...

The race to mine the moon is taking off — even though no one’s sure if it’s possible A California-based company called OffWorld, whose ultimate goal is to enable “human expansion beyond our home planet,” is preparing for the initial phase of its extraterrestrial plans: mining the moon with a...