Good morning. Regrets laced with irony Glenn Beck is sorry. He really is. He swears. He’s sort of like Miss Otis in Cole Porter’s oft-recorded 1934 “Miss Otis Regrets” (I’ll take Bette Midler’s version). She “woke up and found that her dream of love was gone, madam.” And, them, “from under her velvet gown, she drew a gun and shot her lover down, madam.” In this case, […]
Google Map’s updated timelapse feature shows how Mumbai and other Indian cities are booming and building infrastructure. A timelapse of Mumbai, starting in 1984 and ending in 2016 shows green patches in the mega city of more than 10 million people disappearing and being replaced with developments. The 3.4-mile long bridge which connects the city’s Bandra neighborhood with Worli starts to be visible in 2006 and it […]
Investors made the biggest shift in more than three years into funds that help provide protection against rising interest rates ahead of next week’s meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers who are expected to increase overnight borrowing costs for the first time this year. Funds invested in leveraged loans attracted $1.7bn of inflows in the week to December 7 — the greatest weekly haul since 2013 — figures […]
What are Australia’s policy options for responding to the internet threats of 2022? This question was explored in the 360° Cyber Game conducted jointly by RAND Corporation and the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on Thursday. RAND has conducted two of these games before, in Washington DC and in Silicon Valley, and has written up the methodology and results in […]
Photo Zar Mohammad Stanikzai, an Afghan who worked as an interpreter and whose application for a United States visa was rejected this year. Credit Andrew Quilty for The New York Times WASHINGTON — After a protracted political debate, Congress passed a measure on Thursday that would offer sanctuary to a fraction of the Afghan interpreters and translators who have risked their lives to help the military. The […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Sri Lanka’s heavily indebted government signed an agreement in principle on Thursday to sell an 80% stake in a deep-water port on the nation’s southern coast, close to one of the world’s busiest sea lanes, to a Chinese state-owned company, senior officials said. Under the deal, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, China Merchants Port Holdings Co. would pay about […]
December 9, 2016 by: Lauren Fedor and Katie Martin in London Irish fruit distributor Fyffes has agreed to a takeover by a subsidiary of Sumitomo, a deal that will value the London-listed company at €751m and allow the Japanese conglomerate to dramatically expand its European food business. The two companies said on Friday that Swordus Ireland Holding, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo, would acquire the entire share […]
Samsung’s annual year-end reorganization announcement is being delayed. South Korea’s largest business group usually announces reshuffles and structural changes within the second week of December. The changes are indicators of what direction and strategy the conglomerate plans to take the following year. For instance, last year, Samsung Electronics made Injong Rhee, a software expert, the head of mobile division’s research team one. Since then, the company has […]
An international team of scientists has succeeded in making further improvements to the lifetime of superconducting quantum circuits. An important prerequisite for the realization of high-performance quantum computers is that the stored data should remain intact for as long as possible. The researchers have developed and tested a technique that removes unpaired electrons from the circuits. These are known to shorten the qubit lifetime. (via WSJ)
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Friday 06:00 GMT Overview Markets across Asia were mostly higher as investors reflected on record highs for Wall Street and the European Central Bank’s decision to tweak its asset purchase programme. European bourses are expected to open little changed, with spreadbetters predicting the UK’s FTSE 100 will be flat at 6,932 and Germany’s Dax to add 7 points to 11,186. US index futures suggest the S&P 500 […]
Bayern, as ever, is in the vanguard. In recent years, it has become a commercial juggernaut. It rakes in more money from commercial activity than any other club in the world, apart from the Qatari-backed Paris Saint-Germain, and it has established satellite offices in New York and Shanghai to press its interests far from its home base in Bavaria. That success, and that reach, are sources of […]
Breaking News, the popular alert app from NBC News, is shutting down at the end of the year. The entire staff at Breaking News — more than 20 editors, developers and administrative staffers — will stay on payroll at NBC News until Jan. 20, a spokesperson for NBC News told Poynter. Meanwhile, an effort is underway at the company to try to find jobs for as many […]
For the 2014-15 financial year, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and Google all upped the amount of tax they paid in Australia over the year prior. According to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) 2014-15 Corporate Tax Transparency report, with revenue in the region totalling AU$8.3 billion, Apple coughed up AU$146 million in tax — AU$72 million more than the iPhone maker did in 2013-14. Similarly, Samsung, with 2014-15 revenue […]
By Associated Press Published: 23:54 EST, 8 December 2016 | Updated: 23:55 EST, 8 December 2016 TRINGGADING, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president traveled Friday to areas of Aceh province devastated by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake and vowed that torn-apart communities would be rebuilt. Stopping at a collapsed mosque in Tringgading not far from the quake’s epicenter, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo gave out envelopes stuffed with 15 million rupiah […]
Shares in casino operators took a tumble on Friday before recovering some poise, following a response from China’s UnionPay to a report that its daily withdrawal limit from ATMs in the gambling haven of Macau was to be halved as part of Beijing’s battle against capital flight from the mainland. China has moved in recent weeks to staunch capital gushing from the mainland, including tightening scrutiny of cross-border […]
The bromide says all politics are local. But if examined closely, state politics are looking quite national these days. Some independent groups ensconced in offices around D.C. and New York have been running their own shadow campaigns to affect the outcomes of races for governor, legislators, state supreme court justices and more around the country. Overall, independent political groups such as these have taken on a larger […]
More than half of total Starbucks stores in the United States will be turned into either PokéStops or Gyms as part of a special Pokémon GO promotional event that was leaked recently. The official announcement of Pokémon GO‘s special Starbucks event comes just a day after Niantic announced its partnership with Sprint, growing Niantic’s roster of corporate partners as it lures players back into the game. This, coupled with […]
The worst may soon be over for corporate borrowers from the battered US energy industry, according to S&P Global, as a flurry of debt sales suggests investors are confident the Opec supply cut will help put a floor under the oil price. While defaults of energy groups will continue into 2017, analysts with the credit rating agency say they are likely to level out next year and […]
Brisbane-based Oventus Medical has opened a new 3D printing facility at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Clayton, Victoria campus. The facility builds on an existing partnership between Oventus and CSIRO, and will see the publicly-traded company produce its O2Vent device, a customisable, 3D-printed titanium mouthguard designed ensure optimal airflow and reduce the effects of snoring for sleep apnoea sufferers. Oventus has been developing O2Vent […]
Photo Syrian civilians, in eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo retaken by government forces, returned to their homes on Thursday under military supervision. Credit George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BEIRUT, Lebanon — Russian officials said Thursday that the Syrian Army had stopped combat operations in the divided city of Aleppo in order to evacuate civilians, but residents of the rebel-held enclave reported that after a day of intense […]
Investors have valued Athene at about $7.4bn in a stock market launch of the US pensions provider, according to people familiar with the matter. Selling shareholders led by private equity house Apollo Global Management are set to raise $1.08bn as bankers handling the float prepare to price shares in the company at $40 apiece, the people said. That is the middle of a range of between $38 […]
Apple has seen a sharp year-over-year increase in the number US government demands for customer data. It’s the company’s first biannual report this year covering how many demands were made from global law enforcement and intelligence agencies, including the US government, for data the company stores. Apple was embroiled in a legal battle with the FBI earlier this year over locked iPhones. Read more. Apple said it […]
Investors bought firmly into the view that a diverging outlook for interest rates is the key driver for the euro in the wake of the European Central Bank’s extension of quantitative easing, leaving the single currency nursing its biggest one-day drop against the dollar since the UK’s vote to leave the EU. After a knee-jerk 1 per cent leap up in the euro as headlines flashed that […]
