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 […]
The continuing conflict in Syria was high on the agenda at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Three films – Cries from Syria, City of Ghosts and Last Men in Aleppo – examined different aspects of the conflict, with one of them rewarded with one of the festival’s main prizes. With diplomatic efforts to end the almost six-year war stalling, and UN estimates of the death toll […]
Is “mobile-first” really the key takeaway for SEO in 2017? The message for SEO in 2017 is loud and clear: Design your website in a fashion that makes mobile users the priority. If you listen closely, you can almost hear Google whisper, “Or be left behind, mwah ha ha…” Now, where you may have been focusing very little (if at all) on mobile up to this point, […]
Last fall, I taught a media studies class based on ESPN at the University of Illinois. The class examined ESPN’s considerable impact on all the touchpoints of media: Broadcasting and journalism; advertising and branding; digital and innovation; documentaries and storytelling and impact on pop culture, to name a few. The opening lecture focused on the roots of ESPN, and how ludicrous the notion of an all-sports network […]
By Sinead Carew | NEW YORK NEW YORK In an ordinary world, a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting, jobs data and a hefty number of earnings reports next week would provide investors with welcome distraction from speculation about the U.S. president’s policy plans. But the current world is less than ordinary. In the second week after Donald Trump’s inauguration, issues such as his controversial immigration policies will likely […]
By Jonathan Stempel and Jennifer Ablan | NEW YORK NEW YORK Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on Friday expressed optimism that the United States will move ahead as a nation, even as it works through political differences and gets used to the new Trump administration. The world’s two richest people were speaking to students at Columbia University after U.S. President Donald Trump started to unwind the work […]
A monotonous diet of corn can cause hamsters to become cannibals that eat their young alive. In a new study, researchers in France wanted to know why the critically endangered European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) saw an alarming drop in population. Declining Hamster Population One theory blamed pesticides and industrial ploughing. The hamsters’ underground lairs being destroyed is also considered as a possible reason for the drop in […]
It’s not easy being a tablet maker if Android is your operating system of choice and the premium end of the market are your target, because Apple controls so much of that tablet business. But there is a market, and ASUS, which has produced some very good tablets in the past, is prepared to stick with it. That’s good news, as the ZenPad 3S 10 has a […]
Did American football star O J Simpson murder his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman in June 1994? Not according to a United States criminal court, in which he was cleared of the double murder in October the following year after a lengthy, much-publicised, televised trial. Not everyone accepted this verdict, not least the families of the victims, who launched a civil case that resulted […]
Photo Iraqi immigrant Hameed Khalid Darweesh, center, was released from detention early on Saturday afternoon at Kennedy International Airport in New York. Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times If an online travel agency had not temporarily blocked a credit card payment, forcing him to rebook a later flight, Hameed Khalid Darweesh probably would have landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York before President […]
Mary Tyler Moore wasn’t born in Minnesota. She never lived there. But the determined young journalist she played for seven years in the 70s did. So on Wednesday, when news of her death broke, The Minneapolis Star Tribune was ready with the story. In the hours between first hearing news that Moore, 80, was gravely ill and then that the award-winning actress had died, the Star Tribune […]
By Christine Murray | MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY Billionaire Carlos Slim said on Friday that Mexico should not fear Donald Trump, seeing opportunities for his country in the U.S. president’s economic policies, and praising Mexicans for uniting behind their government in talks with the northern neighbor. In a rare news conference, the telecommunications and construction mogul called Trump a negotiator, “not Terminator” and said his repeated attacks […]
American actor and Top Gear host Matt LeBlanc, who was in Dubai over the weekend to film a segment for the 24th season of the BBC’s beleaguered motoring show, is in the hot seat. While details of the Top Gear shoot in the UAE remains under wraps, sources with knowledge of the production said that LeBlanc will be featured as part of a plot where Top Gear’s […]
They were among an estimated 110,000 people in line to be processed for resettlement in the United States during this fiscal year. In fact, they thought they had already made it through the rigorous vetting procedure and, after years of waiting, were on the verge of having their hopes realized. Continue reading the main story Now, all are suddenly, indefinitely waiting again, barred from entry to the […]
BERLIN Germany’s motor industry watchdog raised suspicions Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) was using prototype vehicles to lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in tests in 2015 soon after VW’s manipulation of diesel emissions tests was uncovered, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported on Saturday. It quoted the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) as telling VW in a November 2015 email it would choose test models randomly and appoint new external experts […]
Google is rumored to launch its Android Wear 2.0 beta build on Feb. 9, and now an image of LG Watch Style has leaked on Twitter, which will come running on the latest OS. It is speculated that LG intends to launch two smartwatches – the LG Watch Style and the LG Watch Sport in the near term. The latest leak comes courtesy of well-known leakster Evan Blass who […]
“There’s no way I would be at 23 without her; there’s no way I would be at 1 without her,” Serena Williams said of Venus Williams in the on-court ceremony after their match. Photo Venus, left, and Serena Williams embraced after the Australian Open final. Credit William West/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “There’s no way I would have anything without her. She’s my inspiration,” Serena Williams continued. […]
This year’s results highlight the connection between corruption and inequality The writer served as Executive Editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014 Revelations of tax-evasion and money-laundering networks on a global scale in the so-called Panama Papers helped make the world appear more corrupt last year, according to graft watchdog Transparency International. The Berlin-based organisation said there were more falling scores than rising ones on […]
From the Slope of Hope: Being an equity bear has been brutal for, oh, nearly eight years now. With the S&P up about 250% since bottoming in March 2009, equities have been, on the whole, raging higher, with some sectors in particular benefiting tremendously from the Trumpgasm. One area, though, seems to be recognizing a bitterly cold chill of reality, and that is retail. Not everything retail […]
Donald Trump is a threat to press freedom and the norms of political reporting, said Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. But his presidency presents at least one upside for journalists: There’s probably going to be a lot of leaks in the Trump administration. “I think that people inside agencies and government offices, many of them are people of good conscience,” Sullivan said. “Many of them are […]
The activity tracker Poof claims to be the smallest device that tracks a pet’s daily activity. The device tracks progress, rest, food intake and calories burned. Poof says that the devices are the “smallest, lightweight and most affordable trackers” available on the market. It also claims that the device has the longest battery life of any pet trackers. Its ‘Pea’ and ‘Bean’ trackers pair with the free […]
Careful not to make the same mistake that other companies have committed amid recent hacking trends, Facebook has introduced a new security feature to protect its users from unauthorized access to their accounts. This involves a security key that serves as the second factor to the Facebook login process. The overall concept is similar to the two-factor authentication method offered by email services such as Gmail. It is […]
In The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump described hyperbole as an “innocent form of exaggeration” that was a “very effective form of promotion”. In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, the US president stretched this definition to the limit with his claim that he would make relations with Mexico “better than ever”, despite his demand that the country pays billions of dollars for a border […]
