Sony Is Building an AI-Based Taxi Service to Take on Uber

Within hours of each other on Tuesday morning, Sony announced a new ride-hailing service in Japan and Uber announced it would be expanding in the country. Sony's platform will be based on its artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The new service will be a joint venture between Sony (sne, +1.52%),
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Although the number of repurchase suits appears to have been slowing down, James Brody, Chair of the Mortgage Banking Group at Johnston … First, Brody reports that “There is good news for correspondent lenders who have received such demands from CMI, in that CMI recently lost its motion for
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The U.K.'s housing crunch is indeed serious: A study just released from Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies notes that home ownership among British young people has “collapsed,” having halved within 20 years. With the exception of London, the country's most expensive market, property prices continue
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — In a rising tide of fintech apps, RealyInvest is emerging as a new way for beginning investors to access the high-priced world of premier commercial real estate right from their smartphones. RealyInvestors can purchase fractional shares of REITs
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Fianna Fáil's finance spokesperson said he had a brief conversation with Minister for Finance Eoghan Murphy around the proposed sale of 20,000 mortgages by Permanent TSB to vulture funds. The two men are set to meet to have a more detailed discussion later this week. Michael McGrath will move a
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From top: AIB and Permanent tsb remain in state hands;; Michael Taft It is curious how little debate there has been regarding Ireland's banking system (apart from being scandalised by continuous scandals). The bank guarantee was brought in practically overnight while the Dáil debate over the
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(Reuters) – Home Depot Inc's quarterly profit beat market estimates for the sixth straight quarter as the No.1 U.S. home improvement chain drew in more shoppers who spent more on average amid an improving housing market. The company also increased its quarterly dividend by 15.7 percent to $1.03
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A Japanese company is set to build a skyscraper made of 90% wood in Tokyo, which will make it the world's tallest wooden skyscraper upon completion. Sumitomo Forestry (smfrf, +0.00%), the Japanese wood products company, is planning to build the skyscraper to commemorate its 350th anniversary
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PHOENIX — A new bill that would legalize the use of recreational marijuana in the state of Arizona could benefit the state's real estate market. According to the Phoenix Business Journal, Arizona could see an uptick in its real estate market if HCR 2037 passes on the upcoming 2018 ballot. With the
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“THE Vagina Monologues” (TVM), an empowering stage play that pushes to reclaim words that society has programmed to label “taboo” and calls attention to the gender-based issues on discrimination and violence, returns to Cebu on Feb. 25 in time for its 20th global anniversary. The play was created
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“Households with higher debt levels may also sharply curtail their consumption in response to an adverse shock such as rising unemployment or large falls in house prices, amplifying any economic downturn.” Ms Bullock, however, judged the overall level of mortgage stress among households was
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Previously, Clout worked with SBL's CEO, Tammy Phillips, at Morgan Stanley, where she was managing director of equity finance services. Prior to SBL, Clout was managing director and head of sales and marketing at OTAS Technologies. Danielle Jopson is responsible for client on-boarding and
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Freddie Mac Pfd Z (FMCKJ) placed on investor's radar this week as the lagging Chikou 26 day line has dropped below Ichimoku's Tenkan line, creating an environment ripe for a reversal. If the current close price (as depicted by the chikou span) is lower than the price of 26 periods ago, that would
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U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is the latest top official to sound the alarm that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, but there's no sign that Donald Trump is listening yet. The president's silence has some experts worried that Trump and his administration aren't taking the threat from Russia to this
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New York – A strong home-improvement market pushed Home Depot's profit higher in the fourth quarter, topping expectations. The Atlanta company's profit rose 5.6 percent to $1.78 billion, or $1.52 per share, for the three months ended Jan. 28. Earnings, adjusted for pretax expenses, were $1.69 per
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The housing market is looking pretty hot right now, an important contributor to economic growth and the stock market. This week is likely to bring fresh evidence that demand for houses is strong, with the release of data from the National Association of Realtors on Wednesday. Sales of previously-owned
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The editor of women's fashion and lifestyle magazine Grazia is understood to have left the publication, but the title's owner, Bauer Media, has refused to … Press Gazette understands staff have been warned not to speak to anyone outside the company on the matter of Pearlman's apparent departure.
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Punjab National Bank shares continued downtrend for fifth consecutive session Tuesday after detecting Rs 11,400 crore worth of scam involving billionaire jewellery merchants Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi. The stock price hit a fresh 52-week low of Rs 111, falling 4.6 percent intraday and taking total
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Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan during the bank's annual news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on February 2. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski … LONDON — Deutsche Bank is planning to cut up to 500 trading and investment-banking jobs, according to multiple reports. Bloomberg, the Financial Times,
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