Monthly Archives: July 2019

Fox News Poll: Trump approval up, voter ratings on economy best in decades

More voters rate the economy positively today than have since 2001, according to the latest Fox News Poll. Continue Reading Below In addition, approval of the job President Trump is doing on the economy stands at 52 percent (41 percent disapprove). That’s just one-point off his high of 53 percent last summer, and up from […]

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Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica tourism plunging

Travelers' are experiencing mounting fears over some of the popular summer destinations such as Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. Click Here: Sports Water Bottles Continue Reading Below The deaths of several American tourists in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica’s alcohol-related deaths of 19 people have raised safety concerns among vacationers who plan to […]

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Managing Fakes is Good Business in China

When Chinese consumers buy luxury goods online, a primary concern is receiving a fake product. This is driven, in part, by the long history of counterfeits available on the Chinese market. Because of this, some Chinese consumers prefer to buy luxury products in brand stores when they travel to Paris or Milan. However, with the […]

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CBS goes dark for DirecTV, AT&T customers: A look at other recent carrier disputes

CBS programming went dark for AT&T customers in 14 major markets last Saturday amid a business dispute between the two corporate giants, marking the latest instance of an impasse between telecom companies that resulted in a blackout for some viewers. Continue Reading Below The blackout affected DirecTV and AT&T U-verse customers in New York, Los […]

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Google, Intel, Micron CEOs meet with Trump on Huawei and US economy

Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and President Trump met with a host of CEOs from the world’s biggest tech companies on Monday. Continue Reading Below The attendees included; Sundar Pichai of Google, Chuck Robbins of Cisco, Robert Swan of Intel, Steven Mollenkopf of Qualcomm, Broadcom's Hock Tan and Stephen Milligan of Western Digital […]

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Is CHAO the Xiaohongshu for Men?

Launched in early 2019 by question-and-answer platform Zhihu, CHAO is staking out a claim to be the “Xiaohongshu for men.” While it’s tempting to dismiss it as yet another outlet for young Chinese guys to consume gaming and tech content, there are good reasons for luxury brands to pay attention to the platform’s growing community […]

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What’s Behind China’s Beauty Addiction?

In China, selfie culture has created such unattainable beauty standards that body and face ideals in that country have been changing because of it. Prof. Jaehee Jung wrote in a study published in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal that “the beauty industry is booming in China” and according to her, young Chinese women […]

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Trump to look at Amazon, Pentagon and $10B war cloud contract following ‘tremendous’ complaints

President Trump on Thursday said he will look into the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, as lawmakers and other companies express concerns about the bidding process. Continue Reading Below “I’m getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the Pentagon and with Amazon, they’re saying it wasn’t competitively bid,” Trump told reporters. “We’re […]

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Trump to nominate Eugene Scalia for labor secretary

President Trump announced late Thursday he would nominate Eugene Scalia to be the next secretary of labor. Continue Reading Below "Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience….working with labor and everyone else," […]

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Netflix blames content slate for rare subscriber growth miss

A weak slate of Netflix content releases, not competition from other services, was likely to blame for a shortfall in subscriber growth that sent the streaming giant’s shares plunging in after-hours trading on Tuesday, according to company executives. Continue Reading Below Netflix posted a rare decline in its U.S. subscriber base in the second quarter, […]

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