If there is no doctor in the house, Amazon’s Alexa will soon be able to summon one. Amazon and telemedicine provider Teladoc Health are starting a voice-activated virtual care program that lets customers get medical help without picking up their phones. The service, for health issues that aren’t emergencies, will be available around the clock…
(Reuters) – Retailer Target Corp said on Monday it would spend $300 million more in the next year improving starting salaries and healthcare for its vast army of employees as it looks to be an attractive workplace in a tight U.S. labor market. Retailers and restaurants have been struggling with worker shortages over the last…
A Russian military convoy threatening Kyiv is far bigger than initially thought, with satellite images from Monday showing it occupying much of a 40-mile (64-kilometer) stretch of road north of the Ukrainian capital. Explosions and gunfire were heard in embattled cities in eastern Ukraine as Russia’s invasion met unexpectedly stiff resistance. The Russian military assault…
NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where competition for finding and hiring staff is the fiercest, could see starting wages as high as $24 an hour this year. The Minneapolis-based discount retailer said Monday that it will adopt minimum wages that range from $15 to…
By Devik Jain (Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures dropped on Monday as investors assessed the fallout from a new set of sanctions imposed by the Western countries on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. World stocks slid, oil prices jumped and Russia’s rouble tanked to record lows after the Western allies blocked Russian banks off…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Monday barred airlines from 36 countries including Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy and Canada from using Russian airspace in a retaliatory move after sweeping sanctions targeting its aviation sector.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fierce economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies on Russia’s central bank and other key sources of wealth are likely to drive Russian inflation higher, cripple its purchasing power drive down investments , U.S. officials said on Monday as new sanctions took effect. Russia’s central bank has been trying…
(Reuters) -Chevron Corp said on Monday it would buy biodiesel maker Renewable Energy Group Inc in an all-cash deal valued at $3.15 billion as the oil major looks to boost its clean-energy business. Chevron will pay $61.5 for each share of Renewable Energy, representing a premium of over 40% to the company’s last closing price….
(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc said on Monday its total exposure to Russian assets was $5.4 billion at the end of December, compared with an earlier disclosure of $5.5 billion at the end of September. The bank’s total third party exposure in Russia was nearly $8.2 billion as of Dec. 31, it said in a regulatory…
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan starting Tuesday, because of a “system malfunction” that a domestic supplier suspects is a cyberattack. Kojima Industries Corp., based in Toyota city in central Japan, said Monday the problem could be a cyberattack as an error was detected…
