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IBM First in Patents for 23rd Consecutive Year
January 13th, 2016
Thousands of Cognitive Computing and Cloud Platform Patents Dominate List, Reflect Momentum Behind Company’s Growth Initiatives IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has once again topped the list of annual U.S. patent recipients, receiving 7,355 patents in 2015, marking ...
Asia markets close lower, Nikkei 225 slips 2.71%
January 12th, 2016
Asia’s major markets closed mostly lower, with investor sentiment in the region remaining fragile as oil prices continued to slide and China concerns weighed. The Australian market erased its morning gains to slip into negative territory, with the main ASX ...
Commission concludes Belgian “Excess Profit” tax scheme illegal; around €700 million to be recovered from 35 multinational companies
January 11th, 2016
The European Commission has concluded that selective tax advantages granted by Belgium under its “excess profit” tax scheme are illegal under EU state aid rules. The scheme has benefitted at least 35 multinationals mainly from the EU, who must ...
US oil boom reduces Middle East influence on oil price
January 7th, 2016
The US oil boom has changed the world’s geopolitics of energy, reducing the influence of the Middle East on oil prices, the American Petroleum Institute (API) said on Wednesday. “The American energy renaissance” is the key reason why the ...
Banks Get Relief on Accounting Headache
January 7th, 2016
New treatment to alter lenders’ debt-value adjustments The banking industry’s least-favorite accounting rule is being scrapped. Accounting rule-makers on Tuesday changed a provision that in recent years has resulted in huge—and often head-scratching—swings in bank earnings. James Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase & ...
Could Mike Tyson’s bitcoin wallet be a contender?
January 7th, 2016
Former boxing champ Mike Tyson is taking his interest in the bitcoin market a step further with the launch of a digital “wallet” for the digital currency bitcoin. Last year Tyson used his fame to sponsor an ATM that ...
Seven big investment banks in UK paid just $30 million tax in 2014
December 29th, 2015
Seven of the biggest investment banks operating in London paid little or no tax in Britain last year, despite reporting billions of dollars in profits, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows. In recent months, the seven investment and ...
The Cashless Society Cometh: European Nations Such As Sweden And Denmark Are ‘Eradicating Cash’
December 28th, 2015
Did you know that 95 percent of all retail sales in Sweden are cashless? And did you know that the government of Denmark has a stated goal of “eradicating cash” by the year 2030? All over the world, we ...
Ukraine set to lose preferential trade with Russia after failed last-minute talks in Brussels
December 22nd, 2015
Following a failed round of negotiations in Brussels, Russia will inevitably suspend the free trade agreement with Ukraine within the Commonwealth of Independent States, once a trade deal between Kiev and European Union goes into effect in the new ...
Russian central bank issues new payment cards to take on Visa and MasterCard
December 21st, 2015
Thirty-five Russian banks have agreed to participate in the launch of a new national payments card intended to challenge the dominance of Visa and MasterCard. So far, seven of the banks have tested the basic functions of the new’ ...