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A recently developed vaccine shows great promise in the prevention of rotavirus, a deadly infectious disease which causes severe gastroenteritis in children and is responsible for hundreds of daily fatalities worldwide. Among this vaccine‘s major advantages are its heat-stable quality, meaning it doesn’t require refrigeration, its high affordability and the fact that it specifically targets viral strains encountered in sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s most rotavirus affected region. The […]

Done betting, Alibaba is getting down to work in Southeast Asia as it bids to lead the region’s promising e-commerce space and maximize its early mover advantage over Amazon. Alibaba became the first major international player to enter Southeast Asia, a region with more than 600 million cumulative consumers, when it bought a majority stake in Lazada, the Rocket Internet-backed venture, nearly one year ago. Amazon, Alibaba’s key foe in India, is […]

The first quarter of 2017 is almost over and Xbox is keeping the game train going with its free game offering for April. Xbox Live has announced its April Games with Gold featuring four hit games: two Xbox One and two Xbox 360 games playable via backwards compatibility. These games are: Ryse: Son of Rome, Darksiders, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, and The Walking Dead: Season Two. These limited-time games will […]

Ford said that slowing new car demand in the US and rising costs could halve its first-quarter earnings per share compared with last year’s record first quarter. The Detroit carmaker’s shares slipped in New York on Thursday after the company said in a statement that it now expects pre-tax profits of $9bn in 2017, down from $10.4bn last year. It expects profits to rise again in 2018. […]

At the start of the year, I was part of a panel that aimed to offer career guidance to graduating students at a local secondary school in Singapore. The panel dished out the usual advice about the need to have passion, work hard, and always strive to do better. A student then posed a question that struck a chord: “How can I ensure the skills I learn […]

24 March 2017 Saudi Arabia – In the hustle and bustle of the modern age, smartphones have become very important devices helping people of different age groups and backgrounds with their day-to-day lives. These days, it is almost impossible to manage without smartphones. Unlike its predecessors, smartphones are not limited to basic communication as they have conquered the business world, becoming a key source of information, including […]

By Sumeet Chatterjee | HONG KONG HONG KONG HSBC (HSBA.L) plans to add as many as 1,000 new employees to its Chinese retail banking and wealth management arm this year, the business’s regional head said, most of them in the Pearl River Delta, the heart of the bank’s growth strategy in China. If that target is hit, the new additions will mean HSBC will have hired twice […]

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Alibaba has joined forces with AusPost, Blackmores, and PwC to explore the use of blockchain technology to combat food fraud. The Chinese ecommerce giant said the goal is develop a “Food Trust Framework” to help improve integrity and traceability on its global supply chains. Australia was chosen to be the test bed for the new framework. Alibaba believes blockchain, best known as the technology behind bitcoin, is […]

A person who sticks to a healthy lifestyle — doesn’t smoke, doesn’t eat processed foods, stays fit with regular workouts, steers clear from carcinogens — and who has no known family history of the disease can get the big C. But why? 66 Percent Of Cancers Due To DNA Errors Scientists at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center shed light on this topic with their new study suggesting that […]

Before she became Facebook’s Head of News Partnerships, Campbell Brown had to deal with a low-tech filter bubble. As a host on CNN, she was competing every night with the likes of left-leaning MSNBC and right-leaning Fox News. Battling low ratings, she left her 8 p.m. slot in 2010 with a rare hat tip to her partisan competitors. “I hosted a show on CNN, and I had […]

The wheels on America’s tech IPO train continue to turn. Enterprise data analytics firm Alteryx, the next tech firm in line to go public, has priced its shares at $14 ahead of its listing on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow (Friday). That pricing — which comes in at the top of the firm’s range — will see Alteryx, which is listing under AYX symbol, raise $126 million from the nine […]

Federal investigators are looking at whether the $81 million stolen from a Bangladesh central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year has links to North Korea. This is due to similarities in the code used in the online heist and in an earlier breach of Sony Pictures, according to two insiders quoted by Bloomberg and who asked to remain unidentified since the […]

Scientists have developed a new method that can be used to construct custom hybrid structures using DNA and proteins. The method opens new opportunities for fundamental research in cell biology and for applications in biotechnology and medicine. (via WSJ)

Two prominent economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, made national headlines when they reported in 2015 the spike in mortality among midlife white Americans since 1999, higher than the death rates of blacks, Hispanics, and Europeans. This time, Case and Deaton said the steady rise of deaths among white working-class Americans could have its roots to the not-so-rosy opportunities for the less-educated as they enter the job market. […]

Vodafone NZ has announced that it will be seeking approval to acquire 70 percent of Farmside, the rural broadband and satellite arm of small carrier TeamTalk, for NZ$10 million in cash as well as the option to acquire the remaining 30 percent for NZ$3 million. Vodafone NZ CEO Russell Stanners said the offer, subject to approval by TeamTalk’s shareholders, would allow the former to deliver improved services […]

23 March 2017 Doha, Qatar – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced today that is has officially opened its new scientific office in Qatar. The new opening comes as part of the company’s overall expansion efforts across the region, and commitment to drive robust partnerships in Qatar with an aim to develop stronger healthcare outcomes. The opening ceremony included Her Excellency, Bahia Tahzib-Lie, Ambassador of the […]

By Jane Chung and Geert De Clercq | SEOUL/PARIS SEOUL/PARIS South Korea’s KEPCO (015760.KS), the likeliest suitor for Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) troubled nuclear business, is holding off from making an approach because of question marks over the scale of damage at the unit and political uncertainty in both South Korea and the United States, people with direct knowledge of the matter say. Japanese TV-to-rail conglomerate Toshiba has […]

MOSCOW — It’s 2017, and the new Cold War is in full swing. The West is winning, for now. U.S. sanctions have impoverished Russia. But the two sides are poised at a critical juncture. The Russians have come up with new technology to drill for gas that could send their economy skyrocketing again, putting the West on the back foot. And so, the CIA sends President Donald […]

Do you need software-defined storage (SDS) for your enterprise virtualization, analytics, and enterprise sync and share workloads? If so, then Red Hat has the program for you: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2. Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 looks to be one hard-working storage ant. Red Hat likes to say its open-source Gluster SDS Scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is for the modern enterprise workload. It’s not wrong. You […]

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ are inching closer to their March 29 debut and as the expected launch nears, more details on the devices are emerging online. Close on the heels of the color options for the impending Samsung flagships surfacing online, the alleged batteries of the two handsets have made an appearance. The supposed batteries of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ have surfaced […]

Investors rushed to participate in Volkswagen’s return to European bond markets on Thursday, with the German carmaker’s first benchmark issue following the emissions scandal attracting huge demand. The €8bn euro-denominated bond attracted €24bn of orders by late afternoon, when books were closed ahead of final pricing. Bankers said the deal was launched with a spread 15 basis points tighter than initial indications. “There was a lot of […]

Most website visits these days entail a database query — to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Most website visits these days entail a database query—to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses. But online database queries can reveal a surprising amount of […]

So-called actor Shia LaBeouf is fleeing (with his controversial anti-Trump art exhibit) to Liverpool – in the north of England – claiming America isn’t “safe enough” for his work. As PageSix reports, the “He Will Not Divide Us” webcam exhibit has been adopted by the Liverpool-based Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, the group said Tuesday. “Events have shown that America is simply not safe enough for […]

Dubai, 22nd March 2017 After analyzing information on more than 31 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world, Kaspersky Lab has found that every fourth (28%) is unsecured and poses a risk to users’ personal data. That means all the traffic transmitted over those networks, including personal messages, passwords, documents and much more, can be easily intercepted and used by attackers. According to Kaspersky Security Network[1], 25% of […]

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