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Vodafone To Add Over 2,000 British Jobs To Improve Services

Mobile operator Vodafone will create 2,100 new customer service jobs across Britain in the next two years as part of an investment drive to improve operations in its home market. The world's second biggest mobile operator, which competes with BT's...

U.S. Crude Slumps Below $50 After Stocks Build

Oil prices fell on Thursday, extending the biggest falls this year as record U.S. crude inventories kept sentiment weak, pointing to a global glut despite supply cuts. Crude oil stocks in the United States, the world's top oil consumer, surged...

Trump To Meet With U.S. Community Bankers On Regulatory Costs

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President Donald Trump will meet with Main Street community bankers on Thursday to learn more about their difficulties in complying with the tougher Dodd-Frank financial regulations enacted after the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The listening session is aimed at helping the...

Toshiba’s Westinghouse Brings In Bankruptcy Lawyers; Disclosure Deadlines Loom

U.S. nuclear firm Westinghouse Electric Co LLC has hired bankruptcy attorneys, in a sign that owner Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is more seriously weighing a Chapter 11 filing as an option to help it rein in a multibillion dollar financial...

Russia’s Putin To Meet Exxonmobil President: Kremlin Spokesman

Russia's President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to meet president of oil major ExxonMobil (XOM.N) Darren Woods on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. The meeting was set to take place at the end of the day in Moscow, Peskov told...

Alphabet Lawsuit Against Uber Cements End Of Uneasy Marriage

When Uber Technologies Inc was raising venture capital in 2013, it was one of the hottest deals around – and no one was more eager to write a check than Bill Maris and David Krane of Google's venture...

Murdoch’s Fox Seeks EU Okay For $14.4 Billion Sky Takeover Bid

Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) has asked EU antitrust regulators to approve its $14.4 billion takeover bid for European pay-TV company Sky (SKYB.L), a filing on the European Commission showed on Friday. The EU competition enforcer will decide by...

American Express Escalates High-Fee Card Competition

American Express Co (AXP.N) will begin to offer this month $200 a year in Uber rides, plus other new perks, on its Platinum charge cards as it fights to protect its high-end market from JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N)...

Exclusive: SEC Advisory Committee To Question Snap’s Transparency For Investors

An investor committee that advises the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will next week review if Snap Inc's decision to deny shareholders voting rights might also reduce the social media company's public disclosures on executive pay and other governance...

Yahoo Says About 32 Million Accounts Accessed Using ‘Forged Cookies’

Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), which disclosed two massive data breaches last year, said on Wednesday that about 32 million user accounts were accessed by intruders in the last two years using forged cookies. The company said some of the latest intrusions...