Older, white, educated voters helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Now, they are trending toward Democrats in such numbers that their ballots could tip the scales in tight congressional races from New Jersey to California, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll and a data analysis of competitive districts shows. […]
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Facebook now lets you know if your data was shared with Cambridge Analytica
Facebook has announced it will inform users if their data was wrongly shared with political data firm Cambridge Analytica. From today, the social media giant will show a “protecting your information” link at the top of each user’s news feed. Following that link, users will be directed to a section […]
Viacom asks CBS to raise its bid by $2.8 billion
Viacom has asked CBS to sweeten its merger bid by about $2.8 billion or almost a quarter more than CBS’s offer, people familiar with the matter said, indicating the wide gap in the U.S. media firms’ price expectations. National Amusements, the Redstone family company that controls CBS and Viacom, has […]
Hungary’s populist leader wins ‘supermajority’ for a third consecutive term in office
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has secured a third successive term in office after his right-wing Fidesz party won by a landslide in parliamentary elections. With around 93 percent of the ballots counted, Hungary’s National Election Office said Orban’s ruling administration had secured almost half of the vote on Sunday. […]
China blames US for trade frictions, says negotiations currently impossible
China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the United States was to blame for trade friction and that it was impossible for negotiations to take place under current conditions. Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang made the comments at a regular new briefing, adding that the United States’ measures had raised the […]
Russian military says Israel was behind the airstrike in Syria
The Russian military said on Monday that two Israeli F-15 warplanes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported. Interfax cited the Russian Defense Ministry as saying the Israeli warplanes had carried out the strikes from Lebanese airspace, and that Syrian air […]
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says Facebook users’ data could be stored in Russia
The number of Facebook users affected by the recent data sharing scandal could exceed 87 million and records could be stored in Russia, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie said on Sunday. Wylie said that Aleksandr Kogan, whose quiz app harvested the data of tens of millions of Facebook users, could […]
BlackBerry CEO predicts China will protect intellectual property as it develops more of its own
The Trump administration has taken issue with what it has deems intellectual property theft by China, but the tussle over those rights could be rendered inconsequential with time. Trade policies in China that have come under increased scrutiny of late — amid an elevation in U.S.-China trade tensions — include […]
Hopes are high for China to announce market access reforms on Tuesday
Chinese President Xi Jinping has an opportunity this week to announce significant reforms that could de-escalate trade tensions with the world’s largest economy. The leader is due to deliver a speech at the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual summit that’s been dubbed the “Asian Davos,” on Tuesday and global […]
CEO gives her top tip on negotiating your salary
Negotiating salaries is never an easy topic to confront, but it’s an important one to all employees looking for a promotion — or the next step in their career. While salary is a key attribute of a job move, the CEO of China’s largest restaurant group suggests young professionals should […]