Lowe's Companies Inc reports this year's second quarter net earnings at $1.13 billion, an eight percent increase from last year's $1.04 billion.
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What to do with excess contribution in your retirement account?
There are many ways you might have contributed too much to your IRA without knowing it. Maybe the full amount was contributed to both a traditional and a Roth IRA. Perhaps you set up a monthly contribution that automatically pays and forgot to put a stop to it before your contribution limit exceeded. Or, maybe you just screwed up.
Here's How to Retire with a Peace of Mind - Protect Your Retirement By Diversifying your Portfolio
A diversified portfolio allows investors to avoid problems brought by reversals in the stock market by moderating the effect of the decline.
Dropbox latest update: Cloud storage service provider now lets you drag and drop URLs with files
Dropbox syncs files, photos, videos, and music, Microsoft Office, or Adobe files into folders that can be viewed online wherever you are. This week, the company has decided to take it a notch higher.
Rovio seeks to rebound with 'Angry Birds 2' by tailoring an Asian fit game
After a decline in earnings last year, Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment plans to rebound and expand in Asia by developing its game to fit local consumers' preferences.
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FarmLogs CEO Jesse Vollmar has come up with a monitoring solution that would utilize significant data to improve production of crops through cloud computing.
Twitter now wants to forge more content partnerships in the regions of the Asia Pacific and the Middle East. As part of the company's efforts to manage such a feat, the social media giant has tapped their own Singapore-based executive Rishi Jaitly to lead teams to be spread out all across the different sections of the regions, according to Reuters.
Intel Health executive Eric Dishman has to fight his Kidney Cancer for 23 years before it was treated. Now, Intel launched a network that would make cancer treatment plans in just 1 day by 2020.
H&M, considered the world's second largest retailer of fashion items, reports a sales rise of 16% for the month of July. According to the report, it is already their tenth consecutive month of enjoying sales rise of at least 10 percent. H&M in its press release said that it will release its updated third quarter report on September 15 of this year.
Startup companies centered the stage at a two-day demonstration organized at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Hardware technology was highlighted as 20 hardware inventions were featured accelerating ahead of the usual mobile app startup.
Adidas extended its contract with Indiana University for the next eight years, giving IU $6.7 million annually, which is twice the amount compared to their previous deal. The deal worth $53.6 million in total is good until 2024. The ten-year previous contract between IU and Adidas will end after this academic year.
Adverse conditions in the global markets took a toll on Norway's Pension Fund, the world's largest sovereign fund, in the second quarter.
The growth rate of new businesses in the U.S. is particularly slow, but the latest government data shows that the number of women-owned firms has increased quite significantly.
Reacting to the New York Times investigation report on the world's most valuable online retail major, many Amazonians came down heavily condemning the report. New York Times website is flooded with comments from employees at Amazon.
