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Visa to buy fintech provider Plaid in $5.3 billion deal

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Visa has announced it will pay more than $5 billion to acquire financial technology company Plaid, which produces software for startups to connect to users' bank accounts. Some of Plaid's clients include payment app Venmo, investing app Robinhood and cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco. The deal is worth $5.3 billion, the companies said. Visa said three-fourths of the world's online consumers used a financial […]

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Business & Lifestyle

1 in 4 Medicare recipients undergoes cardiac rehab after heart event

(UPI) -- Only one in four Medicare recipients undergo cardiac rehabilitation following a heart attack or other heart-related health event, a study has found. In research published Tuesday in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, researchers found that about 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program. Of those who did, only 24 percent initiated the program within 21 days of the acute cardiac event or surgery, and only 27 percent completed the full course of […]

todayJanuary 14, 2020 4

National

American imprisoned in Egypt dies after hunger strike

CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- An American citizen imprisoned in Egypt for more than six years under a controversial anti-protest law died Monday following a hunger strike protesting his conviction, the State Department said. Mustafa Kassem, a 54-year-old diabetic, died of heart failure following a lengthy hunger strike, said non-profit Pretrial Rights International, which represented Kassem. Assistant Secretary for Eastern Affairs David Schenker confirmed Kassem's death during a press briefing in Washington. "His death in custody was needless, tragic and avoidable," […]

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Business & Lifestyle

Raytheon tapped for self-evaluating machine learning system

WALTHAM, Mass. (UPI) -- Raytheon Co. announced on Monday it has begun work on a machine-learning technology allowing machines to teach machines through artificial intelligence use. The $6 million contract is one of four, valued at a total of $20.9 million, between the U.S. Defense Research Projects Agency and Raytheon BBN Technologies, SRI International, BBN Technologies, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging and BAE Systems. The new deal calls for the development of systems able to communicate information and the conditions of […]

todayJanuary 13, 2020 7

Business & Lifestyle

Melanoma cells may develop new ‘skin’ to resist cancer treatments

LONDON (UPI) -- Researchers may have found how some skin cancer cells become resistant to currently available chemotherapy. In a study published Monday in the journal Cancer Cell, researchers from Queen Mary University of London describe how melanoma cells fight anti-cancer drugs by changing their internal skeleton, or cytoskeleton. The discovery could open up new treatment options to combat skin and other cancers that develop resistance to treatment, they say. "In a nutshell if you are a cancer cell, what […]

todayJanuary 13, 2020 7

Decision 2020

Cory Booker drops out of presidential race with ‘no path to victory’

NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) -- Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker announced Monday he's leaving the 2020 presidential race. "It's with a full heart that I share this news-I'm suspending my campaign for president," he tweeted. "To my team, supporters, and everyone who gave me a shot -- thank you. I am so proud of what we built, and I feel nothing but faith in what we can accomplish together." Booker's exit comes just weeks before the primary season begins in […]

todayJanuary 13, 2020 5

World

Queen, Prince Harry to attend summit to discuss surprise stepback

LONDON (UPI) -- Members of Britain's royal family will hold a historic summit Monday to deliberate how to handle the decision by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to step back from official duties. Queen Elizabeth II will attend the meeting with Prince Harry, his brother Prince William and father Prince Charles. Markle may join the summit by telephone from Canada. The event follows the surprise announcement last week by Prince Harry that he, the Duchess of Sussex and their 7-month-old […]

todayJanuary 13, 2020 5

National

Four bodies recovered from Montana plane crash

BILLINGS, Mont. (UPI) -- Authorities in Montana said they have recovered four bodies from the wreckage of a Cessna plane that crashed over the weekend. The Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office said in a statement it was notified of an overdue aircraft in the Billings area Saturday evening, prompting a search that continued throughout the night for the small passenger plane. A radar track located the plane's last known location as near Dunn Mountain, north of Billings, and Yellowstone Country Sheriff […]

todayJanuary 13, 2020 9

National

Pelosi keeps open possibility of subpoenaing impeachment witnesses

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday did not rule out the possibility of subpoenaing witnesses for President Donald Trump's impeachment, depending on whether the Senate pursues testimony for its trial. During an appearance on ABC News' This Week, Pelosi, D-Calif., said that she will determine during a caucus meeting Tuesday whether to send articles of impeachment to the Senate as early as this week, adding she would not exclude the possibility of issuing fresh subpoenas for testimony […]

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