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Verizon announced Sunday it’s offering an unlimited data plan, which seems to be part of a growing trend in competition as new FCC leadership takes over. Verizon, which is the largest wireless provider in the U.S., added 591,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, according to The Chicago Tribune. T-Mobile, a big rival in the telecommunications industry, reportedly gained double the amount of customers in that time period. T-Mobile started its new unlimited data plan in August. “It offers a ‘fightback’ moment for the company,” Jennifer Fritzsche, an analyst at Wells Fargo, said of Verizon. “This announcement sends a very strong message around the strength in the Verizon network.” (RELATED: Verizon CEO: Hillary Would Be Another 4 Years Of Obama) The plan contradicts prior statements from the company’s leadership. The Verizon CEO was originally against unlimited data plans, saying it was an unsustainable model. “Everything we’ve done is to …

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- A + A KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 1): The Prime Minister today congratulated Angkatan Koperasi Kebangsaan Malaysia Berhad (Angkasa) president Datuk Dr Abdul Fattah Abdullah on being elected as International Cooperative Alliance Asia Pacific (ICA-AP) vice-president for the term 2022- 2026. Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob through a post on his Facebook page said the election showed the confidence and trust of the international cooperative leaders in the leadership and wisdom of the cooperative movement in Malaysia, which is seen as progressive, systematic and viable. “Congratulations! Malaysia created history when it won the ICA-AP vice-president seat at the 15th ICA-AP regional assembly, which was organised in a hybrid manner in Seoul, South Korea ” read the post. Abdul Fattah, who is also ASEAN Co-operative Organisation (ACO) president, is the second person from Malaysia to be elected as ICA-AP vice-president after the late Royal Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul …

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Janese Swanson is an American innovator and software developer who has advocated for girls’ education in STEM throughout her decades-long career. She codeveloped the first of the Carmen Sandiego educational games and is the founder of Girl Tech, a first-of-its-kind company that created products to spark young girls’ interest in technology. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women, a series of interviews with brilliant women in the design industry. advertisement advertisement Doreen Lorenzo: When did you first realize you had an interest in design? Janese Swanson: I was interested in education, technology, and design from early on. I come from a family of engineers and artists, so as a child I loved getting things like typewriters and tape recorders and taking them apart to see how they worked then trying to put them back together. My father was an air traffic controller and trumpet player in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, and my …

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As the dust settles from the COP26 climate summit, the results are becoming more clear. Despite its resulting document—the Glasgow Climate Pact—being the most ambitious international agreement to date, scientists still warn we are heading towards 2.4℃ warming, far surpassing the 1.5℃ goal of the Paris Agreement (though consider that pre-Paris warming was expected to be closer to 4.0℃). While the commitments fell short, every nation agreed to return to COP27 in Cairo with more aggressive goals, keeping the 1.5℃ goal alive—barely advertisement advertisement For nearly 200 countries to reach multiple important agreements, all the while harboring entirely different goals and necessities, is no small feat. In this light, the Glasgow pact is a good step that can be improved going forward. More progress than reported While this COP did not produce the headline-grabbing commitments we have seen in the past, the participants made real progress. For example, …

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FILE PHOTO: Imelda Evangelista, 55, points to the spot where her son, Ariel Evangelista, and his wife, Chai Lemita-Evangelista, were shot dead by police officers in Barangay Calayo, Nasugbu, Batangas. The Evangelista couple was among the nine activists killed in simultaneous police-military raids in the Southern Luzon region on Sunday, March 7, 2021. INQUIRER/GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE MANILA, Philippines — Various left-leaning groups have welcomed the Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Investigating Team’s recommendation to file murder charges against police officers involved in the death of a labor leader during the so-called Bloody Sunday raids in Calabarzon last March. According to senatorial aspirant and Bayan Muna chairperson Neri Colmenares, the indictment of police officers behind the operation where Emmanuel “Manny” Asuncion was killed is a small victory for human rights. A total of nine persons died in the Blood Sunday raids. However, Colmenares maintained that the fight for …

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President Joe Biden’s pick for the empty seat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Gigi Sohn, is set to have her confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, where she is likely to face stiff Republican opposition and questions regarding her activist past. “Ms. Sohn has been before my House committee many times as an activist witness,” Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I have serious concerns regarding her placement on the FCC and look forward to having her appear before the committee.” Sohn co-founded and served as president of tech policy think tank Public Knowledge, which receives funding from prominent left-wing billionaires, including Pierre Omidyar and George Soros in addition to being a strong advocate for net neutrality. Sohn has received criticism from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), a broadcast network industry trade group with a …

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Dorothy Frame, an employee at Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, is suing a labor union that forced her to pay dues in violation of her Catholic beliefs. In response to a religious accommodation request, union officials sent “remedial church readings” to a catholic employee and her priest. https://t.co/buWb2kllPN — National Right To Work Foundation (@RightToWork) November 24, 2021 While Frame is not a member of the Laborers’ International Union (LIUNA), she is required to pay dues which are used to promote the union’s pro-abortion stances, according to a statement from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which is providing her free legal aid. (RELATED: Labor Unions Spent Nearly $2 Billion On 2020 Election Cycle, Study Finds) “LIUNA officials have put their arrogance and callousness on full display by forcing Ms. Frame to choose between losing her job and severely compromising her religious beliefs,” said National Right to Work …

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Breaking up is hard to do, but not for Exact Sciences ( NASDAQ:EXAS ) and Pfizer ( NYSE:PFE ) . Recently the partners let a partnership that was a lot more important to the diagnostics provider than the pharmaceutical giant come to an abrupt end. Shares of Exact Sciences soared in 2020, but the stock has been under a lot of pressure this year. Underperforming sales of Cologuard, a non-invasive test for colon cancer, are partly to blame. Here's why the end of this relationship could work out well for Exact Sciences and its shareholders. Image source: Getty Images. Pfizer quit on Cologuard a while ago In 2018, when Exact Sciences hired Pfizer to co-promote Cologuard, Pfizer was a very different company. Shortly after signing the agreement with Exact Sciences, Pfizer's former CEO Ian Read handed the leadership role to Albert Bourla. Read was a big fan of diversification, but Bourla is streamlining Pfizer into a new drug development powerhouse by stripping away all …

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Many companies use the term " artificial intelligence" (AI) to generate hype, but few of them successfully integrate AI to grow their business. AI will soon be everywhere, and companies that heavily rely on it today could prosper for the next decade. Both Upstart Holdings ( NASDAQ:UPST ) and UiPath ( NYSE:PATH ) have used AI to drive their businesses. With their huge success so far and their massive market opportunities, buying these two AI powerhouses before the new year could be a smart move. Image source: Getty Images. 1. Upstart: Redefining credit Upstart is using artificial intelligence to redefine how banks determine creditworthiness for loans. Instead of relying mainly on Fair Isaac 's ( NYSE:FICO ) FICO score, Upstart provides banks with a score that relies on thousands of data points to evaluate potential loan customers. It has 31 banks giving out loans based on the company's determinations, and that count has nearly tripled over the course of …

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Image source: The Motley Fool. Analog Devices, inc ( NASDAQ:ADI ) Nov 23, 2021 , 10:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning, and welcome to the Analog Devices Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Earnings Conference Call, which is being audio webcast via telephone and over the web. I'd like to now introduce your host for today's call, Mr. Michael Lucarelli, Vice President of Investor Relations. Sir, the floor is yours. Michael Lucarelli -- Vice President of Investor Relations Thank you, Stephanie, and good morning everybody. Thanks for joining our fourth quarter and fiscal 2021 conference call. With me on the call today are ADI's CEO, Vincent Roche; and ADI's CFO, Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah. For anyone who missed the release, you can find it and relating financial schedules at investor.analog.com. Now on to the disclosures. The information we're about to discuss …

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