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FedEx And UPS Can Have Nightmares Because Of The Delivery Ambitions Of Amazon

The ambition that Amazon has been brewing has been obvious for years now. The largest online retailer in the world has set up its own networks of merchandise warehouses and sorting centers for packaging. Transportation of cargo is also done by airplanes and truck trailers that are owned by the...

A $848 Billion Wipeout In The Chinese Market Started A Selling Spree

The most bullish trades are coming down in China and the investors there are being remined how fats bets placed by them can change for the worse.   A rout in the currency of the country, one of the favored best of investors, has left them high and dry and has impacted markets globally this...

One-Pilot Plane Cockpits Could Happen Sooner Than Later As Proposed By Boeing

After initially starting off with three crew members on the flight deck, the number was reduced to two with the advent of the Being 757 which also permanently altered the design of the cockpits during the 1980s. The planemakers are now contemplating ways to reduce the number of flight deck crew to...

Cheaper Or Even Free Training By Airlines And Flight Schools The Way To Address Pilot Shortage

Danny Perna, the founder of Epic Flight Academy in Florida felt a severe shortage of pilots in 2015 when sirliners from China to the United States were impacted by it. This was, according to him, a first time in 15 years that trained pilots as flight instructors at his school were not being found....

Trends That Would Drive IoT In 2018 And Later Identified By IHS Markit

There would be over 31 billion connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices in 2018 globally according to an estimate by business information provider HIS Markit. The analysis says that the driver for this growth would be the demand for intelligent connected devices within commercial and...

January A Bad Month For Cryptocurrencies Amidst Facebook Ban And Other Teething Concerns

The month of January appears to be a bad one for cryptocurrency investors.   There has been a slip in almost all of the digital coins. Bitcoin is all set to record its worst monthly fall since February 2014. There are two drivers for this – Facebook planning to ban all advertisements related...

Challenge Of Counterfeit Goods Can Be Addressed With A New Product Marking System

The world's most secure marking system is being claimed to have been developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. This system would be able to fight against pirated goods – ranging from pirated pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, designer merchandise and artwork.   And since the...

Earnings Of U.S. Oilfield Service Firms Will Be Hit By Venezuela’s Economic Troubles

The sanctions posed by the United States on Venezuela and on the state-run oil company PDVSA coupled with the economic debacle that the South American nation is going through has resulted in the country the U.S. oilfield service companies that are exposed to the country facing hits to earnings....

Including China And Russia In The WTO Was A Mistake, Says Trump Administration

China and Russia have failed to transform in to market based economies and therefore the United States believes that it had made some mistakes in including the two countries in the world trade organization (WTO, said the Trump administration.   Two reports were sent to the Congress on Friday...

Relations With Beijing Sought To Be Repaired By Google Through Tencent Patent Sharing Agreement

In what is being viewed as an attempt by Alphabet's Google to repair the soured relations with Beijing and to seek a way to register a greater presence in the massive online market of China, the U.S. based search engine has inked a patent-sharing agreement with Chinese internet giant Tencent...

Cloud IT Infrastructure To Draw More Shift From Traditional Infrastructure Spending In 2017:IDC

There is anticipated year-on-year growth of 20.9% in the spending on IT infrastructure products such as server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches, put to use in cloud environments in 2017 at $46.5 billion, claims a new forecast of the International Data Corporation (IDC) in its report...

U.K. Banks To Rein In Lending To Households As Inflation Cuts Into Wages

In the U.K., the average household is having a problem because the rate of inflation is around 3% while the rise in wages is no more than 2.5%.   And what is worse is that the average British household is now being denied cheap loans – which was a source that was used to boost the household...
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