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By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hundreds of taxis from across Europe jammed central Brussels on Wednesday in protest against the driver-hailing app Uber, closing tunnels and disrupting commuters’ journeys. Taxis drove slowly through the Belgian capital towards Schuman roundabout, which houses the European Union institutions, stopping at major intersections on the way and blocking two main routes. Transport union FGTB-UBT said about 1,200 taxis, hailing from France, Britain, Switzerland,
Apple Inc. faces significant challenges selling its larger and more powerful iPad Pro to businesses because companies are reluctant to switch software vendors and use an expensive device that lacks specialized business apps, analysts said. The enterprise market, which is how Apple refers to its business customers, represents 10 percent of its $183 billion annual revenue, he said. Apple has at least one client so far: General Electric has given
The latest cuts, on top of 55,000 layoffs previously announced under Chief Executive Meg Whitman, will mostly be in HP’s faster-growing corporate hardware and services operations, to be spun off as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, on Nov. 1. Up to 30,000 of the layoffs will be in the enterprise business and up to 3,300 in HP Inc, the company that will continue to make personal computers and printers, HP
(Reuters) – News Corp said it would buy Unruly Holdings Ltd, a UK-based video advertisement technology company, giving it the technology that analyzes historical sharing behavior to predict the potential for video ads to go viral. Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp will pay 58 million pounds ($89.60 million) in cash to Unruly and another 56 million pounds if the company meets certain performance targets. News Corp, whose revenue is largely dependent
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