Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Parents outraged over alleged Hatchimal holiday toy fails and other top stories.

  • Parents outraged over alleged Hatchimal holiday toy fails

    Parents outraged over alleged Hatchimal holiday toy fails
    Parents outraged over alleged Hatchimal holiday toy fails ABC , WHAS 6:10 AM. EST December 30, 2016 (Photo: @Vickiredmond / Twitter) Some parents are complaining that one of this holiday season's hottest toys is not working.Brittany Baker, of Salamanca, New York, purchased a Hatchimal -- an egg-shaped toy that is meant to "hatch" a high-tech stuffed animal -- for her 4-year-old daughter for Christmas. She claims the Hatchimal will not hatch."She said that she was bei..
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  • Could Amazon stop a Ron Swanson with a gun? A new patent for drone protection shows the retailer is trying

    Could Amazon stop a Ron Swanson with a gun? A new patent for drone protection shows the retailer is trying
    We’ve all thought about it after learning about Amazon.com’s ambitious effort to fill the skies with its unmanned delivery drones. What happens if someone tries to take one of these flying merchandise-hauling contraptions down?The idea was famously touched upon in an episode of NBC political comedy “Parks & Recreation,” when stanchly libertarian Luddite Ron Swanson (played by Nick Offerman) shoots a delivery drone with a hunting rifle. Last year, a Kentucky man did just that to a neighbor’s dro..
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  • People are dying because of an audacious cash policy that India says will modernize its economy

    People are dying because of an audacious cash policy that India says will modernize its economy
    Usha Boinavad, a farmworker in western India who underwent a heart operation as a teenager, began suffering from chest pains this month. A doctor advised the 26-year-old to seek heart valve surgery in the nearest major city, 200 miles away.She immediately ran into another problem: cash. The procedure would cost at least $1,500, far more than what she and her husband had in their bank account. But with India in the grip of a severe currency shortage since the government invalidated 86% of the ..
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  • Run-DMC sues Wal-Mart, Amazon for $50M

    Run-DMC sues Wal-Mart, Amazon for $50M
    The rap group Run-DMC filed a $50 million lawsuit in New York accusing Wal-Mart, Amazon, Jet and other retailers of selling products that traded on the group’s name without permission. A founder of the group and owner of the Run-DMC brand, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, was listed as the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York. The complaint said the defendants are “advertising, selling, manufacturing, promoting and distributing multiple products” in the..
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  • Companies rush to link jobs to Trump

    Companies rush to link jobs to Trump
    NEW YORK — Nearly a month before Donald Trump won the White House, Japanese conglomerate SoftBank pledged to invest billions of dollars in the U.S. economy. But that didn’t stop the company and its shrewd chief executive, Masayoshi Son, from portraying those plans this month as the direct result of Trump’s election victory — an example of how SoftBank and many of its corporate counterparts are scrambling for ways to curry crucial, early favor with the president-elect. Story Continued Below A g..
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  • Apple Has a Lot to Lose if Its Favorable Chinese Manufacturing Deals Unravel

    Apple Has a Lot to Lose if Its Favorable Chinese Manufacturing Deals Unravel
    China not only provides Apple with low labor costs and incredible scale, but many valuable local government incentives. Some of them could disappear if trade tensions rise. Eric Jhonsa. Follow. Dec 30, 2016 6:00 AM EST. There already were good reasons ...
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  • World's highest bridge opens to traffic in southwest China

    World's highest bridge opens to traffic in southwest China
    A bridge suspended above a Chinese river by more than half a kilometre has now opened to the public – becoming the highest of its kind in the world. The Beipanjiang Bridge is raised 564 metres above the Beipan River in mountainous southwest China, making it the highest bridge ever built. Designed by a team of Chinese engineers, the bridge has a 1,341-metre span that carries four lanes of traffic over the Beipan River. It connects the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan, and is expected to reduce jo..
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  • China's yuan suffers biggest one-year loss since 1994

    China's yuan suffers biggest one-year loss since 1994
    SHANGHAI China's yuan strengthened against the dollar on Friday, but was on track for its biggest annual loss since 1994, which would make it the worst performing major Asian currency this year.The yuan CNY=CFXS, which has reached an 8-1/2 year low, was on course to shed nearly 7 percent against the dollar in 2016.Many market watchers expect the yuan to recoil further next year if President-elect Donald Trump's policies stoke stronger U.S. economic growth and higher interest rates.UK-based Fat..
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  • Amazon had its best holiday season ever

    Amazon had its best holiday season ever
    BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "E-Commerce Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Amazon had its most successful holiday shopping season to date in 2016, according to a batch of statistics that the company released. In particular, the stats illustrate the popularity of the company’s Prime membership service and Echo devices, as well as its rapidly expanding logistics capabilities: Amazon reported that it shipped more than 1 billion ..
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  • A Japanese CEO resigned after an employee's 'death by overwork.' Why it won't be enough.

    A Japanese CEO resigned after an employee's 'death by overwork.' Why it won't be enough.
    Tadashi Ishii, chief executive of Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising agency, will step down over the "death by overwork" of a young employee. (Reuters) On Wednesday, a Japanese chief executive made a laudable move that would be stunning to many American employees if their CEO did the same. Tadashi Ishii, the chief executive of Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising agency, said he would resign in January to take responsibility for alleged violations of Japanese labor law following the suicide..
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