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Saudi-Arabiens Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, Spitzname MBS, weiß, wie er sich in die Schlagzeilen bringt. „Ich glaube, dass die Palästinenser und die Israelis ein Recht auf ihr eigenes Land haben“, erklärte er in einem Interview mit dem US-Magazin „The Atlantic“.

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The voice app ecosystem is booming. In the US, the number of Alexa skills alone surpassed 25,000 in January 2018, up from just 7,000 the previous January, in categories ranging from music streaming services, to games, to connected home tools.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• YouTube has told officials in San Bruno, California, that they intend to bulk up security at the company's headquarters, the city's community development director told Business Insider.
• Some of the upgrades come as YouTube seeks to expand its San Bruno campus. 
• The talks follow the April shooting attack on YouTube by a  38-year-old disgruntled  video creator.    

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• Saudi-owned media is calling out Canada's human-rights record in a series of bizarre videos, days after Canada criticized the Kingdom's record on similar issues, and set an escalating feud between the two nations in motion. 
• In a series of videos published by Al Arabiya, the outlet calls into question Canada's arrests of several "prisoners of conscience," and suggests its practices are not up to international human-rights standards. 
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Im Handelskonflikt mit China wollen die USA am 23. August neue Strafzölle in Höhe von 25 Prozent auf Waren im Wert von rund 16 Milliarden Dollar erheben. Die Liste mit betroffenen Produkten sei fertiggestellt worden, teilte der Handelsbeauftragte von US-Präsident Donald Trump, Robert Lighthizer, am Dienstag (Ortszeit) in Washington mit. Am 6. Juli waren bereits US-Zölle in Höhe von 25 Prozent auf chinesische Importe im Wert von rund 34 Milliarden US-Dollar in Kraft getreten.

Ein Tweet, ein tollkühner Plan und viele offene Fragen: Tesla-Chef Elon Musk will sein Unternehmen von der Börse nehmen. „Ich glaube, es ist der beste Weg nach vorne“, schrieb er den Mitarbeitern des Elektroautokonzerns am Dienstag (Ortszeit) in einer Rundmail. Tesla veröffentlichte das Schreiben unter dem maximalen Druck der Finanzmärkte — der schillernde Tech-Milliardär hatte mit seinen Tweets zuvor ein solches Chaos an der Börse ausgelöst, dass der Handel mit der Aktie zwischenzeitlich gestoppt wurde. Читать дальше...

Der US-Entertainment-Riese Walt Disney hat den Gewinn im Frühjahr dank niedriger Steuern, Kinohits wie „Avengers: Infinity War“ und florierender Vergnügungsparks kräftig gesteigert. Im Kabelgeschäft, der umsatzstärksten Sparte, verdiente der Konzern jedoch deutlich weniger, wie die am Dienstag nach US-Börsenschluss veröffentlichten Quartalszahlen zeigten. Disney kämpft mit der starken Konkurrenz durch Streaming-Anbieter wie Netflix oder Amazon, will jedoch bald mit einem eigenen Internet-Fernsehservice zurückschlagen. Читать дальше...

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• The Justice Department said it appealed a "fundamentally misconceived" ruling in which President Donald Trump was found to have violated the US Constitution by blocking Twitter users from his account.
• The DOJ argued Trump's account belongs to him "in his personal capacity," and "not the control of the government," and thereby affords him immunity from obligations to engage with the public.
• The Southern District of New York ruled in May that... Читать дальше...

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• Trump-backed Republican Troy Balderson held a narrow lead over Democratic insurgent Danny O'Connor in Ohio's 12th District special election on Tuesday night, leading the race by nearly 1,800 ballots.
• A victory for Balderson was not unexpected in the deep-red district where Donald Trump won by 11 points in the 2016 presidential election, but the narrow margin is seen as a positive sign for Democrats who are working to reclaim a majority in one or both houses of Congress in November. Читать дальше...

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Tech-driven disruption in the insurance industry continues at pace, and we're now entering a new phase — the adaptation of underlying business models. 

That's leading to ongoing changes in the distribution segment of the industry, but more excitingly, we are starting to see movement in the fundamentals of insurance — policy creation, underwriting, and claims management. 

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• Sen. Claire McCaskill secured the Democratic nomination for her re-election bid in Missouri, in one of the nation's most hotly contested Senate races.
• Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has won the Republican nomination.
• Retaining seats like McCaskill's is critical for Democrats if they are to have any chance of gaining control of the Senate, where Republicans hold a 51-49 advantage and have Vice President Mike Pence to break any ties.

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Insurance companies have long based their pricing models and strategies on assumptions about the demographics of their customers. Auto insurers, for example, have traditionally charged higher premiums for parents of teenage drivers based on the assumption that members of this demographic... Читать дальше...

Salesforce

• Salesforce COO Keith Block has been promoted to co-CEO, serving in the role alongside founder Marc Benioff.
• Otherwise, not much else seems to be changing: Benioff remains chairman of the board, and Block will keep his own board seat.
• Salesforce co-founder Parker Harris will be joining the board, too. 
• Notably, Oracle — Salesforce's biggest rival — has two CEOs, too.

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Of the many technologies reshaping the world economy, distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are among the most hyped. DLTs are most often associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but such coverage sidelines the broader use cases of DLTs, even though they stand to make a far bigger... Читать дальше...

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• Ike Perlmutter, the chairman of Marvel Entertainment and a longtime acquaintance of President Donald Trump, is leading an informal council that is exerting sweeping influence on the Veterans Affairs Department from Mar-a-Lago.
• None of the informal council's three members has ever served in the US military or government.
• They have remained hidden except to a few VA insiders, who have come to call them “the Mar-a-Lago Crowd.”
• The Mar-a-Lago Crowd spoke with VA officials daily... Читать дальше...

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• Rick Gates testified on Tuesday that he stole nearly $3 million from his former boss, Paul Manafort, to finance an extramarital affair ten years ago.
• Gates said his wife knew about the affair, which Manafort's lawyer repeatedly referred to as being part of Gates' "secret life."
• "After all the lies you've told, you expect this jury to believe you?" Manafort's lawyer asked Gates at one point.
• "Yes," Gates replied. He added that he was... Читать дальше...

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• Rick Gates, Paul Manafort's former right-hand man, testified Tuesday that he cheated Manafort out of millions of dollars to finance an extramarital affair a decade ago.
• Gates also testified to several other exchanges with Manafort that appeared to show the two men conspiring to commit bank and tax fraud at Manafort's direction.
• The central facet of Manafort's defense is to throw a wrench through Gates' credibility.
• Manafort's lawyers... Читать дальше...

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Nearly every major messaging platform has spent the past few years rolling out tools to attract new users and give businesses tools to reach those users.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• Chat apps are extinguishing phone calls
• The Big Four telecoms are... Читать дальше...

Oracle

• Oracle founder Larry Ellison said "it's kind of embarrassing" for Amazon that it uses Oracle's databases to power its own business — especially considering Amazon offers its own databases that compete with Oracle's. 
• Ellison was responding to a report from last week that Amazon intends to get off of Oracle's products completely by 2020. 
• While Amazon is a customer of Oracle's, they are also bitter competitors, thanks to the success of Amazon Web Services.
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To keep pace with the ongoing shift toward e- and m-commerce, retailers are turning to chat apps, where smartphone users spend considerable time each day.

One way they’ve been accessing consumers on these platforms is through chatbots, or software programs that use business-to-consumer... Читать дальше...

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• A Spanish jet on a Baltic air-policing mission accidentally fired an air-to-air missile over Estonia on Tuesday.
• The missile has a self-destruct mode, but it's not known if it was activated.
• Estonian authorities are currently searching for the missile, and Spanish and Estonian officials are investigating the incident.

A Spanish air force Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet accidentally fired an air-to-air missile... Читать дальше...

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Social networks are here to stay, and they're constantly evolving. Globally, more than 2.8 billion people — or 37% of the world's population — use social media, but the way those users interact with each other, and the platforms they adopt, vary widely.See the rest of the story at Business... Читать дальше...

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• Theresa May has demanded Boris Johnson for comparing women wearing burqas to bank robbers and letter boxes.
• The former Foreign Secretary has been accused of Islamophobia over the remarks, which he made in a newspaper column.
• Johnson has so far refused to back down, and May said on Tuesday that "some of the terms Boris used describing people’s appearance obviously have offended."

The Tory Islamophobia row has... Читать дальше...

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