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New Data Provide a Pre-Tariff Snapshot of a Stable but Slowing Labor Market
The labor market remained sound in March, with job openings declining but layoffs remaining near record lows, while rates of new hiring…
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Gold falls on easing trade war concerns; US data awaited
Gold prices fell on Tuesday (Apr 29) as easing trade tensions between the US and its trading partners dented the metal’s safe-haven…
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US: Stocks open higher as busy week for earnings, data kicks off
[new york] Wall Street’s main indexes opened slightly higher on Monday (Apr 28), as investors braced for a week packed with key economic…
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Mapletree Industrial Trust proposes US$11.8 million divestment of US data centre
Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) is proposing to divest its data centre in Georgia, US, for US$11.8 million, it said on Wednesday (Apr…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Gets Its Hands on Data on Millions of Immigrants
Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department have given DOGE access to a system that contains sensitive data on millions of legal…
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Netflix logs record profit in quarter, withholds user data
Netflix reported first-quarter profit that exceeded Wall Street forecasts, boosted by a recent price increase and a strong slate of…
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Congressmen sound alarm over data privacy following 23andMe bankruptcy
Three congressmen from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are raising concerns over data privacy weeks after the genetic testing…
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DeepSeek a 'profound threat,' that collects Americans' data for China, House panel warns
The Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek poses a major national security threat to the United States through stealing…
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Temu, Shein slash digital ads as tariffs end cheap shipping from China, data show
The online retailers are cutting ad spending on most platforms, according to two digital marketing firms that measure ad spending Chinese…
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UOB says data centres are ‘sheltered’ from Trump tariffs, names Reits to buy
UOB Kay Hian (UOBKH) predicts continued growth in demand for data centres over the next five years – even amid a challenging environment…
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Apple takes top spot for first-quarter smartphone sales, data shows
Apple took the top spot for global smartphone sales in the first quarter on the back of the iPhone 16’s launch and strong demand in…
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EU to probe use of personal data by X's AI chatbot
Ireland’s data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, launched an inquiry on Friday (Apr 11) into the use of…
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IRS data reveals that 6% of federal workers are delinquent on their taxes
Tens of thousands of federal workers have been delinquent on their taxes, including more than 5% of congressional employees and 4% of…
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IBM launches new mainframe in bet that some data stays local
The intense computational requirements of generative AI have increased demand for many kinds of tech hardware International Business…
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Businesses anxious over tariffs, Fed must look at ‘hard data’ in policy response: official
CHICAGO Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee said that businesses are anxious about US President Donald Trump’s tariffs but that…
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Meta plans nearly US$1 billion data centre project in Wisconsin
Meta Platforms plans to spend nearly US$1 billion on the development of a data centre project in central Wisconsin, underscoring a larger…
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Trump tariffs could stymie Big Tech’s US data centre spending spree
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs could hamstring Big Tech’s billion-dollar efforts to build artificial intelligence…
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Airtrunk seeks S$2.2 billion loan to build Singapore data centres
Blackstone-owned data centre firm AirTrunk is seeking a S$2.2 billion green loan for a new greenfield project in Singapore, according to…
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Oracle tells clients of second recent hack, log-in data stolen
Oracle has told customers that a hacker broke into a computer system and stole old client log-in credentials, according to two sources…
Business
Hard data shows US economy is solid, but there is fear around tariffs: Federal Reserve’s Goolsbee
CHICAGO Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Tuesday said while the “hard” data show the underlying US economy is solid, the…
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US dollar struggles for direction before Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, awaits data
THE greenback was roughly unchanged on Tuesday (Apr 1) as investors braced for reciprocal tariffs that US President Donald Trump is due to…
Fashion
Singapore’s mobile data price war: ‘You lose out if you don’t switch’
Remember when mobile data was rationed by the gigabyte? Those days are long gone in Singapore, where a fierce price war has changed the…
Business
US: Stocks plunge on tariff fears, inflation data
Wall Street stocks plummeted on Friday (Mar 28), with all three major indices ending the day sharply lower in anticipation of a fresh wave…
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US: Wall St opens lower after data fans inflation worries
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Friday (Mar 28) as data showed underlying price pressures rose more than expected last month…