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Air strikes in east Syria kill 12 civilians: monitor.

Air strikes on one of the last villages still held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed 12 civilians, including four children, a monitor said Monday. The strikes were carried out late Sunday on the village of Susa in Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “Twelve civilians from a same family, including four children, were killed,” Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. The Britain-based monitoring organisation, which has a broad network of sources on the ground, said the strikes were likely conducted by the US-led coalition that launched air raids against IS in Syria and Iraq in 2014. There was no immediate comment from the coalition. The Islamic State group has lost nearly all the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria and is clinging to a scattering of small villages and pockets of land in the border area. The coalition admitted on Thursday to ...

Walmart Throws Down Gauntlet to Amazon.

Walmart on Tuesday outlined plans to grow its critically important e-commerce business in the U.S. by 40 percent over the next fiscal year. The company intends to leverage a series of key acquisitions and its more than 4,600 brick-and-mortar locations to mount a direct challenge to Amazon for millennial customers. Walmart -- the largest retail operation in the world and the leading U.S. challenger to Amazon -- presented its objectives at its annual meeting with Wall Street analysts, where CEO Doug McMillon said the company is committed to turning itself into a digital powerhouse. "No doubt we are in a transformational period of history," McMillon said at the meeting. "Business is transforming, and Walmart is transforming too." Not Your Father's Big Box Walmart plans an aggressive expansion of its online grocery business, with 1,000 new locations in the U.S., McMillon said. The company also has been experimenting with delivery to customers in the...

Evolution of the 4th Utility: Fixed Broadband.

In-home broadband has become "the fourth utility" in United States households, many of which have multiple connected devices and viewing screens. More than 85 percent of U.S. homes have broadband service, according to Parks Associates , 93 percent of those have DSL, fiber or cable high-speed, fixed-line Internet services. The demand for high-speed fixed broadband is a key contributor to ongoing revenue and profitability for operators, particularly due to declines in pay-TV and landline voice subscribers. The competitive market has changed vastly over the past two years, as have the services available. AT&T acquired DirecTV and launched an online pay-TV service (DirecTV Now) that it bundles with broadband, satellite TV and mobile. Charter acquired TWC and Bright House to become Spectrum, which serves roughly 30 percent of the U.S. residential fixed broadband market -- about 23 million consumers, similar to the size of Comcast's customer base. Google halted expa...

Globant CTO Diego Tartara: Building Trust Moment by Moment.

Diego Tartara is CTO Latin America at Globant . In this exclusive interview, Tartara lays out a road map for companies that want to treat their customers to exceptional digital journeys. Globant CTO Diego Tartara CRM Buyer: What does it mean to create a digital journey for a customer? Diego Tartara: It has to be a full end-to-end cycle. It starts from the actual need and goes all the way to the usage of the product or brand. The journey is not only the touchpoints with the digital tool. It has to do with the end-to-end relationship between a specific user and a brand or product. CRM Buyer: What are the factors that go into creating an effective and innovative digital journey? Tartara: There are several components. The first is identifying your customer. That's actually done by performing customer analysis, segmentation, observation and interviews. What we try to understand is the client's actual need and how we can solve that need. Technology is al...

Zac Efron Reveals He Cried When Micheal Jackson Told Him He Was A Fan.

Zac Efron Reveals He Cried When Micheal Jackson Told Him He Was A Fan BY NJIDEKA AGBO 01 JANUARY 2018 | 1:59 PM Even in his death, Michael Jacksons impact continues to live on. Zac Efron, popularly known for his roles in High School Musical and Baywatch , in an interview on The Graham Norton Show , revealed he became emotional when he talked to the late pop star, Micheal Jackson during a phone call. Although they never met, Efron said while having dinner with Kenny Ortega, director of High School Musical, in Paris during the promotion of High School Musical movies, when a call came in. In his words, “His phone rang, and I remember I got this look, like … ‘You want this phone call.’ I was like, ‘Okay,’ so I came over and was like, ‘What’s going on?’ He goes, ‘It’s Michael Jackson.'” Zac Efron As Troy Bolton In The 2006 Musical Series, High School Musical. Photo credit: AFP/GETTY Efr...

Pope Francis urges peace and understanding for migrants.

Pope Francis on Monday used his New Year homily to urge peace and understanding for migrants and refugees. “Let us not extinguish hope in their hearts or smother their expectations of peace,” the leader of the world’s estimated 1.2 billion Catholics said, marking the Church’s World Day of Peace before millions of worshippers braving a rainswept Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican. Taking up the theme of the ongoing migrant crisis, the pontiff said they were “ready to risk their lives in their search for a peaceful future “which is a right for everyone” and which everyone should strive to ensure for all.

Everton Vs Manchester United Today At 6:30pm - .

Manchester United's seasonhas hit something of a roadblock in recent times, with a four-gamestreak without a win seeing them eliminated from the League Cup while also puncturing their hopes of putting distance between themselves and the contenders for the final Champions League spot. Having fallen behind Chelsea into third place on Saturday due to their 0-0 draw with Southampton at Old Trafford, their New Year's Day trip to Everton takes on a new significance. Jose Mourinho and his men will be hoping that they can start 2018 off on the right foot in order to draw a line under their poor run over the latter part of December. The full verdict on Romelu Lukaku's head injury has yet to be delivered but the Belgian is likely to miss a couple of weeks of action after being stretchered off on Saturday following his clash of heads with Wesley Hoedt. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is out for another month after the gamble of rushing him back from ACL surgery failed quite spectacularly, the Swe...

Sydney seaplane: Tributes paid to family killed in crash.

Tributes have been paid to the UK family killed in a seaplane crash near Sydney on New Year's Eve. Colleagues of Richard Cousins, 58, chief executive of one of the world's largest catering companies, Compass Group, described his "great humanity". He died alongside his fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, 48, her 11-year-old daughter Heather, and his sons, Edward, 23, and William, 25, a campaigner. Australian pilot Gareth Morgan, who also died, was known as "a gentle guy". All six died when the seaplane - which belonged to a firm running sightseeing tours - plunged into a river 30 miles (50km) north of Sydney. 'Deeply shocked' The family, from Tooting, in south-west London, were reportedly flying back to Sydney from an exclusive waterfront restaurant in Jerusalem Bay on New Year's Eve. The crash happened in Hawkesbury River, near the suburb of Cowan, at about 15:10 local time (04:10 GMT) on Sunday, police said. The cause is not y...