April, 2018

• 21 April

  Trump hails ‘big progress’ as Kim vows to extend freeze on tests

  

  Bloomberg US President Donald Trump hailed “big progress” as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to halt nuclear testing, a largely symbolic gesture that appeared aimed at softening the ground for talks between the two leaders. Kim told a ruling party meeting in Pyongyang his regime would suspend tests of atomic bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles after achieving its ...

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• 21 April

  Now, Kim can call S Korea’s Moon whenever he wants

  

  Bloomberg Hello, Pyongyang. This is Seoul calling. For the first time since the division of the peninsula, the two Koreas set up and tested a direct phone line for their leaders, South Korea said. The first call between South Korea President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un was expected take place sometime before their historic April 27 meeting, ...

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• 21 April

  Trump-Russia collusion: Democratic Party files lawsuit

  Bloomberg The Democratic National Committee (DNC) ued Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks claiming widespread interference in the 2016 election as part of a “brazen attack on American democracy”. The civil lawsuit could force President Donald Trump’s 2016 staffers to answer questions under oath about campaign activities. Evidence gathered by the DNC could be made public in court filings and ...

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• 21 April

  Paraguay all set to keep ruling party in presidency

  

  Bloomberg With Paraguay’s economy booming, this Sunday’s elections are less about policies and more about the candidates and their parties. In terms of growth, this landlocked country — roughly the size of California — is one of the few bright spots in Latin America in recent years. Barring an upset, Mario Abdo Benitez, a 46-year old former senator whose father ...

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• 21 April

  Merkel may have met a match in SPD’s Nahles

  

  Bloomberg Angela Merkel has enjoyed a relatively painless start to her fourth term in office. That could be about to change with the German leader’s Social Democrat coalition partners poised to elect a combative one-time party rebel as their leader. Andrea Nahles, who made her mark as a rabble-rousing opponent of former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s labour reforms, is slated ...

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• 21 April

  McDonnell woos past enemies for UK Labour’s push for power

  

  Bloomberg John McDonnell, self-proclaimed enemy of capitalism and the man who would be chancellor of the exchequer, took pride in sowing dissent. He’s such a serial rebel that he used to produce his own version of the Budget as a rank-and-file lawmaker when the Labour Party was in power. In opposition, he and now-leader Jeremy Corbyn, undermined their bosses by ...

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• 21 April

  Scooter apps face regulatory bump in US cities

  

  Bloomberg Bird, a startup that deploys electric scooters with location trackers on city sidewalks and rents them through an app, trumpeted two weeks ago that it was bringing its service to San Francisco. The company, run by a former honcho at both Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., said it was determined to make sure everything went smoothly with city ...

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• 21 April

  Cisco adds AI tools, devices to WebEx chat offerings

  

  Bloomberg Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of the gear companies use to connect employees, said it’s expanding the use of artificial intelligence in its online collaboration and video-conference products to make meetings more useful and efficient. Menial tasks such as scheduling, taking notes and following up on requests will be taken care of by machines in the future, according ...

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• 21 April

  Smart Solutions launches TA Triumph-Adler in UAE

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Smart Solutions and IT Technology (SSIT), the region’s leading one-stop shop for office automation solutions and part of the Al Ahlia Group, is delighted to introduce an extensive range of TA Triumph-Adler products to the UAE market. TA Triumph-Alder’s tailor-made document and output management software solutions are designed to deliver the highest levels of quality, reliability, ...

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• 21 April

  Facebook builds team to design its own chips

  

  Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is building a team to design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chipmakers such as Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., according to job listings and people familiar with the matter. The social media company is seeking to hire a manager to build an “end-to-end SoC/ASIC, ...

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