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Alexa and Google Home’s dirty little secret: 97% of voice apps are only used for one week

As much as we may tire of mobile apps, they have one advantage over voice apps: We remember them.

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Alexa and Google Home’s dirty little secret: 97% of voice apps are only used for one week

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Exxon boosts capital budget but takes $2 billion charge from XTO deal

Exxon Mobil Corp boosted its 2017 capital budget on Tuesday on a bet that oil prices have stabilized, but posted its lowest quarterly profit since 1999 as it took a $2 billion charge against the value of natural gas reserves from its buyout of XTO Energy. The world's largest publicly traded oil producer wrote down the book value of part of its North American natural gas and crude reserves, some of which were acquired in 2009…

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U.S. airline, travel agency shares nosedive amid immigration ban turmoil

U.S. airline and online booking agency shares slumped for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, and some industry executives have begun speaking out against the Trump administration's ban on travel from seven majority

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Fed likely to keep rates steady as it awaits Trump economic plan

By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday in its first policy decision since President Donald Trump took office, as the central bank awaits greater clarity on his economic policies. Trump has promised a large infrastructure spending program, tax cuts, a rollback of regulations and a renegotiation of trade deals but has offered few details or a timeline for their roll out…

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