Top South African ruling party officials pulled out of events to commemorate the centenary of the birth of national icon Nelson Mandela on Friday morning, amid intense negotiations over President Jacob Zuma's exit from office. The African National Congress's leadership is trying to wrap up a deal for
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The company said it expects “to be GAAP profitable for the full year 2018,” referring to generally accepted accounting principles. Still, Twitter missed Wall Street targets for people using the service, reporting 330 million monthly active users for the quarter, a 4 percent increase from a year earlier but flat
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Tesla's fourth-quarter net loss more than quintupled as the company continues to spend money at a torrential rate to ramp up production of its new mass-market electric car.
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When junior Thomas Mullen's parents told him to take an accounting class, he warned them the inevitable drop in his GPA would be their fault. An economics and applied math double major, Mullen agreed to take accounting — a “very important life skill” according to his parents — and signed up for
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Less than two months after taking over the leadership of South Africa's ruling party, Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a key test of his authority: President Jacob Zuma just won't go away. Zuma initially defied a decision by top leaders of the African National Congress that he should quit, but his exit seemed
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