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Groupon and Jet.com have signed on to partner with mobile shopping app Ibotta, reports Internet Retailer.

Ibotta is a cashback platform that rewards shoppers when they make purchases in partnered retailers' brick-and-mortar stores. This new partnership extends its reach to the e-commerce sphere by allowing Groupon and Jet.com to post products on Ibotta's platform. Читать дальше...

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A campaign ad published to Donald Trump Jr.'s Instagram account struck some people as odd on Friday.

It featured three of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's adult children — Ivanka, Donald, Jr., and Eric.

The ad, ostensibly geared toward young voters, contained the hashtags #millennialsfortrump and #studentsfortrump, with an image of Donald, Jr., Ivanka, and Eric facing the camera with stern gazes.

Below the photo is a call to action... Читать дальше...

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Hermine battered Florida on Friday, then turned its attention to the rest of the East Coast.

The storm uprooted trees, caused power outages for 300,000 homes and businesses, and has killed at least one person.

Hermine was a Category 1 hurricane while it was still in the Caribbean, before being downgraded to a tropical storm as it hit Florida Friday.

While the classification of a hurricane can give you an idea of how strong the winds and flooding may be... Читать дальше...

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One of the biggest stories over the past few years has been the struggling American energy sector.

The mining and logging industries have been continuously bleeding jobs amid the collapse in oil prices. And wages in oil states have significantly lagged behind those in non-oil states since early 2015.

But there have been a few positive signs as of late.

The US oil rig count has been steadily ticking higher in recent weeks following the slight oil-price recovery in the spring. Читать дальше...

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The war in Yemen is surging back to high levels of violence. Since peace talks failed in early August, ending a tenuous, four-month cease-fire, airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have hit a hospital, school, and other civilian targets.

The result has been two-fold: The military escalation is adding to the soaring death toll of Yemen’s 18-month conflict, which the United Nations last week revised up to 10,000, nearly doubling previous estimates.

And the surge... Читать дальше...

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Baidu, the Chinese-based internet services conglomerate, has made several major announcements about its upcoming IoT projects. The company’s plans center on a revamped artificial intelligence (AI) platform, which the company hopes will enable it to effectively increase its presence in the world of the IoT.

Baidu plans to use this revamped AI platform to... Читать дальше...

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The Santa Clara police union is threatening to boycott San Francisco 49ers home games because of Colin Kaepernick's recent protest of racial injustice and police brutality, NBC Bay Area reported on Friday.

In a letter obtained by the news station, the police union told the NFL team that "police officers [may choose] not to work at your facilities," if the team did not take action against Kaepernick.

The quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem,... Читать дальше...

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During the EU referendum campaign, David Cameron suggested that Britain’s border control in France might not survive Brexit.

Now, with an upturn in the number of irregular migrants in the Calais area, there is growing impatience in France at the situation there.

This summer, two leading presidential candidates within the centre-right Republicans party in France – Alain Juppé, and Nicolas Sarkozy – have argued that immigration control should return to British territory. Читать дальше...

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Consumers continue to increase their time spent consuming digital media, while advertisers continue to increase their ad budgets into digital channels.

The influx is not expected to let up in the near future. The US digital advertising industry will continue to experience remarkable growth through 2021 to reach nearly $100 billion in annual revenue, driven primarily by the sustained migration of ad dollars from traditional TV to digital video and the continued increase of social spending. Читать дальше...

I was gonna go to work but then I got high I just got a new promotion but I got high Now I’m selling dope and I know why ‘Cause I got high Because I got high Because I got high

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DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared a "state of lawlessness" Saturday after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists detonated a bomb that killed 14 people and wounded about 70 in his southern hometown.

Duterte, who inspected the scene of Friday night's attack at a night market in downtown Davao city, said his declaration that covers the southern Mindanao region did not amount to an imposition of martial law. It would allow troops to be... Читать дальше...

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Facebook will begin cracking down on businesses with slow mobile web sites, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The social media giant plans to limit where and when advertisements can be placed across its service. A post published on Facebook’s Business News page on Wednesday provides an outline for how developers can optimize their websites... Читать дальше...

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In many parts of the country, they supply our water, fight our fires and help us get to work, but "special districts" are a form of government that receives very little attention.

The lack of media scrutiny and public interest in special districts provides opportunities for insiders to feast on the billions of tax dollars these entities collect each year.

One such group of insiders are the intermediaries who help districts issue their bonds.

The... Читать дальше...

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The US Food and Drug Administration banned antibacterial soaps on Friday because they're not better, cleaner, or safer than regular soap.

"Consumers may think antibacterial washes are more effective at preventing the spread of germs, but we have no scientific evidence that they are any better than plain soap and water," said Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said in the agency's press release.

"In fact, some data... Читать дальше...

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Best Buy reported earnings last week and the stock surged on the surprise positive results.

What happened during the quarter, and is the exuberance warranted?

Online sales growth impresses, but...

Best Buy reported an earnings per share increase of 22% over the same period last year.

The big news was that online sales grew 23.7%, a large increase on top of similar numbers the previous quarter.

The e-sales figures were a good sign... Читать дальше...

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Hillary Clinton's campaign is hurling a familiar accusation at Donald Trump.

Nearly two weeks after the GOP presidential candidate alleged that Clinton was running a "pay-to-play" scheme during her time in the US State Department, the Clinton campaign is now ripping Trump for the same thing.

The new development comes after The Washington Post reported that the Donald J. Trump Foundation paid a fine to the IRS over an illegal $25,000 contribution that the charity made to a group tied to Pam Bondi... Читать дальше...

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If you believe one of the few paths to Election Day victory for Donald Trump runs through Florida, two developments this week make the state ever more important to his potential presidential future: the resurgent strength of Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton’s dwindling lead there.

On Tuesday Rubio scored a decisive victory in his primary race, winning 72 percent of the vote and demonstrating that the first-term senator retains a powerful base of support in the state. Читать дальше...

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's parliament on Saturday ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, the Xinhua state news agency said, which could help put the pact into force by as early as the end of the year.

The standing committee of China's National People's Congress voted to adopt "the proposal to review and ratify the Paris Agreement" at the closing meeting of a week-long session, the news agency said.

The announcement came as leaders from the world's 20 biggest economies... Читать дальше...

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New EU net-neutrality regulations have forbidden telecom companies from blocking ads at the network level, Financial Times reports.

Guidelines published by the Body of European Regulator for Electronic Communications will now be passed on to local regulators, such as Ofcom in the UK, to apply on national telecom companies. This ruling will be celebrated by all companies ... Читать дальше...

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Silicon Valley is the home of some of the biggest tech companies in the world and the area's engineers and investors have used some fairly similar strategies to dominate their respective industries.

If you look at the largest Silicon Valley success stories they serve what may be considered to be a two-sided market with a high probability of network effects that keep competitors at bay.

As a result, the businesses require rapid growth in order to capture market share... Читать дальше...

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For the seventh year in a row, G.I. Joe and G.I. Jane won’t be getting much of a pay raise.

President Obama on Wednesday said he will issue an executive order putting a 1.6 percent lid on payroll increases for service members, according to a report in Military Times.

In a letter to Congress, Obama said: “I am strongly committed to supporting our uniformed service members, who have made such great contributions to our nation over more than a decade of war. Читать дальше...

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The headline averages of the major stock indexes appear to be riding high, sitting near all-time records set just a few weeks ago.

A lot of commentary, however, seems to be weighted to the downside. From perma-bears to market skeptics, commentators seem to be waiting for a shoe to drop and the market to crash.

Even retail investors, as measured by the American Association of Individual Investors, are more bearish than bullish. In fact, bullish sentiment... Читать дальше...

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Smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia grew 6.5% year-over-year (YoY) during Q2 2016, reaching 28 million devices, according to the IDC.

Southeast Asia is a growth hot spot for the smartphone market. Along with India and South America, this region is providing stakeholders in the industry, such as app developers, mobile operators, and device makers... Читать дальше...

Box CEO Aaron Levie has a new hat that seems inspired by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — and it's already looking like a smash hit among his 450,000 Twitter followers.

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On Labor Day, politicians have traditionally paid lip service to the plight of the worker, whom the national holiday is meant to honor.

With working-class struggles taking center stage in this year’s election, we will likely hear from them more than usual talking about the steps they will take to reduce income inequality or end three decades of wage stagnation.

Some of them will go one step further and voice support for unions and collective bargaining... Читать дальше...