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Southwest Airlines has announced that it has reached a Tentative Agreement with its flight attendants. As a part of the agreement finalized this past week, wages of the attendants will be increased and the current contract of them will be increased through May 2019.

The airline said that it will be giving bonuses and work-rule adjustments as well to the attendants. Southwest Airlines Vice President of Cabin Services Mike Hafner said that are proud to have the best flight attendants in the industry.

Many instances have taken place that pass on a message that one should keep his personal life separate from his business life. It has been seen that people share details of their business on their social media accounts. It shall however, be noted if any legal hassle takes place then seeing the previous cases, judges declare the account as well a part of business property.

Sometimes, people get so into their business that they start promoting their business on social media forums. But if anything wrong happens and legal proceedings take place then it has been seen that judges consider those accounts as a part of business only.

After Aetna Inc. and Humana Inc. merged, other major health insurers have also come under pressure to sign such deals. According to reports, next deal could be between Cigna Corp. and Anthem Inc. These insurers were said to be interested in buying Humana.

However, Humana was acquired by Aetna on Friday. According to Ana Gupte, an analyst at Leerink Partners in New York, “It paves the way for Cigna and Anthem. Cigna has fewer choices at this point”.

Aetna acquired Humana in a $35 billion cash-and-stock deal. It is the first such deal among the largest companies in the industry. Now, major health insurers are concerned regarding expanding more following the US reform known as Obamacare. The act led to a competition for new customers and cut margins.

Amazon’s Prime members could only be benefited by Prime Day and the day is intended to strengthen loyalty among current members and take on new ones before the event that will be fall on 15 July. The company is reducing the price of Prime membership by £20 to £59 for people who join from now till 8 July.

Next week, the retailer will also celebrate its 20th birthday. It said that customers will be able to find more volume of deals compared to the ones offered on Black Friday. Price-cuts will be covering categories such as toys, electronics, films, video games, garden, sports and beauty.

A video ad has also been launched by the retailer on YouTube, in which it has explained about Prime Day and showed how it created "interpretations of #PrimeLiving".

For so many years, agricultural use of drones could not take place due to the lack of federal guidelines. Things are changing now, as since January, more than 50 exemptions have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration for the farm-related operations.

As per the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, agriculture could be held liable for commercial drone use. The drones are quite inexpensive and could take place of humans in a number of ways in large farms.

They can transmit detailed information about crops and sprayers; they can be directed to problem spots and levying a cap on water and chemicals a farmer needs to use in those areas.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has received green signal from the FDA for its combination drug Orkambi for the treatment of most common form of cystic fibrosis. As per the analysts, the approval will prove extremely beneficial for the company.

If the circumstances are considered of May then it was not sure that that Vertex Pharmaceuticals' combination therapy for the most common form of cystic fibrosis will get approval. But after few days, the drug Orkambi got approved.

The drug has been made by combining Kalydeco with lumacaftor. It is expected that the FDA will widen its approval area for the drug for patients having cystic fibrosis and are six years or older. By expanding the approval, more number of people will be benefitted.