Nick Thompson was on his way to the subway when he got an email from his boss, New Yorker Editor David Remnick. The subject line? “Morning piece.” It was 8:17 a.m. on Sept. 8, and Remnick had just watched libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson ask “what is Aleppo?” live on national television. “I wrote back and said, ‘great!’” said Thompson, the former digital editor at The New […]
The Trump administration just fired the first shot in the US-European currency, and thus trade, wars when Trump’s top trade advisor Peter Navarro accused Germany of using a “grossly undervalued” euro to “exploit the US and its EU partners“, the FT reported noting the comments are “likely to trigger alarm in Europe’s largest economy.” News of the statement sent the EURUSD spiking in the moments after its […]
Tighter restrictions on skilled worker visas to the U.S. could come via both executive action by President Donald Trump and via Congressional moves, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday. Indian IT services firms are already girding for possible changes to the H-1B program, which they use to send tens of thousands of workers to the U.S. annually. While a significant shakeup of the visa program […]
By Ginger Gibson and David Shepardson | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Days before a group of Republican lawmakers were due to discuss their party’s controversial proposal to tax all imports, Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) sent an urgent message to its U.S. dealers – tell the politicians the tax would seriously hurt car buyers. Some of Toyota’s 1,500 dealers heeded the call and contacted members of the House of Representatives’ […]
Lady Gaga is gearing up for her big performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 5, and has just revealed new details regarding her set. Gaga announced the show will include music spanning her entire career, and not just from her latest album Joanne. Lady Gaga Super Bowl Halftime Show As we grow nearer to the big day when the New England Patriots face off […]
The publication of Michael Lewis’s book Flash Boys in 2014 thrust the arcane world of ultra-high frequency trading firms into the popular consciousness, prompting debate over everything from the industry’s morality to the possible risks it posed to financial stability. What was undeniable was how several of these companies were staggeringly profitable, generating hundreds of millions of dollars by trading at speeds made up of fractions of […]
WASHINGTON — Iran conducted its first missile test since President Trump took office, American and Israeli officials said Monday, posing an early test of whether the Trump administration will make good on its promises to strictly enforce all aspects of the Iranian nuclear deal and a side agreement on missile testing. The Iranian missile traveled about 600 miles, but its re-entry vehicle reportedly exploded before the flight […]
Sri Lanka,30 January 2017 GAC Sri Lanka has partnered with Hemas Transportation to build an integrated logistics facility in Muthurajawela Industrial Zone in the western part of Sri Lanka. It will comprise a state-of-the-art distribution centre, a container yard and a 15-acre warehouse. A groundbreaking ceremony, graced by the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, the Honorable Ranil Wickramasinghe, was held today. The facility is expected to be […]
Monash University has implemented a multi-petabyte deployment at its eResearch Centre, giving the Melbourne-based advanced computing facility the capacity to store and manage massive workloads of data. The university implemented a software-defined solution that uses Red Hat Ceph Storage on Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 and R730xd rack servers that it expects will accelerate application performance, simplify systems management, and address the university’s growing data storage requirements. The […]
In what those with a flair for the dramatic might be allowed to call “mutiny”, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who is the current acting Attorney General, has given orders to the Justice Department not to defend Trump’s executive order. Her just released statement is below: On January 27, 2017, the President signed an Executive Order regarding immigrants and refugees from certain Muslim-majority countries. The order has […]
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Anna Irrera | NEW YORK NEW YORK Day traders love making bets on tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump, but some of the most prominent quantitative strategists from hedge funds and banks are not quite ready to make big, bold trades on his social media musings. The president’s active Twitter presence has lifted volatility in financial markets, which is good for day traders […]
Newsrooms around the world are experimenting with unmanned drone aircraft to add context to their visual reports. But drones require a high level of skill and safety awareness and, as of 2016, an FAA license to operate commercially. The Poynter Institute is offering a groundbreaking training initiative to give journalists the skills and strategies they need as these powerful tools make their way into newsrooms across the […]
While Uber is dealing with fallout from its response to Trump’s Friday immigration order, when it tweeted it would pause surge pricing, which was taken as a form of “strike breaking,” whilst simultaneously profiting off the situation, and its actions were seen as seeking to grab market share from striking taxi drivers, leading to a #DeleteUber meme spreading across social networks, it has a more tangible problem […]
GENEVA U.S. President Donald Trump needs to acknowledge that the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding is torture and therefore absolutely prohibited, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture said on Monday. “Without any doubt, waterboarding amounts to torture,” Nils Melzer said in a statement, adding that a U.S. revival of torture would be catastrophic because other countries would also “get back into the torture business”. “I urgently […]
Doha – January 30, 2017 Ultra Luxury, a brand new exhibition, debuting in November 2017, aims at catering to the growing luxury markets in Qatar and GCC. Ultra Luxury will provide a platform for global luxury brands to meet and showcase their products and services to a highly targeted and sophisticated group of VIP visitors. The exhibition will take place over 4 days at the Doha Exhibition […]
European, Asian stocks and S&P futures all drop after traders were left with a sour taste from the potential fallout of Donald Trump’s order halting some immigration and ahead of central bank decisions from the U.S. and Japan. Markets in Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam are all shut due to the Lunar New Year public holiday, leading to a quiet Asian session. Oil […]
©2017 National Public Radio, Inc. NPR report titled “What makes a good pitch? NPR editors weigh in” by Alison MacAdam as originally published on training.npr.org on January 27, 2017, and is used with the permission of NPR. Any unauthorized duplication is strictly prohibited. Pitching is hard. Every one of us has gotten excited about an idea, prepped it, pitched it … and been shot down. It’s disappointing […]
Monday 08:30 GMT Overview The dollar and Wall Street equity futures are under pressure after data last week showed slower than expected US growth and as traders digest President Donald Trump’s executive order to clamp down on people entering the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The sour tone is suppressing stock markets in Europe, though not lifting government bond prices or supporting gold to any great […]
London Business School’s leading thinkers give us their views on the challenges and opportunities that businesses will encounter in 2017. Disruptive opportunities “2017 will be the year of disruption,” says Costas Markides, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and executive education faculty director. “Every industry will be affected by some kind of discontinuity or disruption – whether it’s the invasion of new business models or the arrival of […]
GE Healthcare and its partner Advanced Technology Company to provide advanced diagnostic imaging and digital technology Aligned with the National Development Plan to modernize Kuwait’s healthcare infrastructure 30 January 2017 Kuwait City, Kuwait – A partnership between GE Healthcare and Advanced Technology Company (ATC) has been selected as the key medical technology provider for five new Ministry of Health hospitals in Kuwait as part of the Ministry’s […]
DUBAI A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men believed to be al Qaeda militants in central Yemen, local officials said early on Monday, hours after American commandos carried out the first military operation authorized by President Donald Trump. The officials said the pilotless plane targeted a vehicle travelling in Baihan in the province of Shabwa, in which two suspected al Qaeda members were travelling. Both men […]
Those jilted fans, however, might find some solace in knowing that two former Chargers heroes are finalists for the Hall of Fame, which traditionally gains four to eight new members in a vote on the Saturday before the Super Bowl. Continue reading the main story Running back LaDainian Tomlinson is nearly a sure thing, while Coach Don Coryell is a long-overdue thing. And how appropriate a thing […]
Update: One day after the prime minister welcome Muslims into the country, it appears Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard calls mosque shooting a “terrorist act”, and Greg Fergus, an MP in Quebec blamed “years of demonising Muslims” for the massacre… Quebec MP says deadly shooting at mosque is “a terrorist act that is…the result of years of demonising Muslims” https://t.co/H9PEImfv7Z pic.twitter.com/mBhzq0I3CR — Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) January 30, […]
