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Tech companies and nearly two dozen US states clashed with the United States government in federal court Friday over the repeal of net neutrality, a set of Obama-era rules aimed at preventing big internet providers from discriminating against...

ADVISORY COLUMN: SMALL BUSINESS

  ADVISORY COLUMN: PERSONAL FINANCIAL ADVISER QUESTION: I have $300,000 to put into the market. What do you think is good for a 53 year-old man? -Peter FINANCIAL ADVISER: The stock market is what I believe you are referring to. The best course...

Coffee processor Salada Foods Jamaica Limited is offloading its spice company, which sold compressed pimento leaves to flavour the fire for jerk meats but has been idle since 2017. Salada owns 70 per cent of Pimora Company Limited, whose net assets...

Dr Guna Muppuri founder of junior market company Indies Pharma Jamaica Limited announced that shares valued at over $2.8 billion held by him and connected parties were moved to a holding company. It reflected the largest movement in shares of the...

Telecoms gear provider Nokia reported Thursday a rise in fourth-quarter earnings, thanks to strong demand for new-generation mobile networks, the so-called 5G systems that have been the focus of a high-stakes dispute between the United States...

After years of belt-tightening and spin-offs that ate into revenue and profits, General Electric Company, GE, reported fourth-quarter net income of US$761 million, sending shares up 10 per cent in premarket trading. The company also reached a US$1....

OP-ED CONTRIBUTION: LEGAL AFFAIRS Jamaica was recently ranked on the World Bank’s Doing Business index at No. 6 in the world for ease of starting a business. Foreign entities seeking to do business in Jamaica may wonder whether it is...

After gliding through years where stocks mostly just rose, a generation of investors last year suddenly confronted a hard financial truth: stocks are risky and can plunge at any moment. For older investors, the nearly 20 per cent drop in the S&...

CB Group has taken under its wing a start-up company named Benchmark Quality Management Solutions Limited, run by past employee Dr Velton Gooden, who says he is bringing to the table quality management systems of an international quality – at...

Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively tra

Greece has raised money on international bond markets for the first time since emerging from its bailout programmes last summer, getting €2.5 billion (US$2.87 billion) Tuesday in a five-year bond auction. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos...