“Good afternoon Mr Smith, and congratulations on reaching 500,000 air miles. Lunch will be served an hour after take off — we’re preparing your filet mignon just the way you like it. I’d like to apologise for the slight delay to your flight to Miami last week, and let you know we’re scheduled to arrive […]
Read moreTwo teenagers were killed and a third was injured when a Tesla Model S crashed and caught fire in Florida, according to NBC Miami. All three occupants in the vehicle involved in the crash Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale were 18-year-old males, the report said. “Our thoughts are with the families and friends affected by […]
Read moreShares of Roku popped on Wednesday, ahead of the company’s first-quarter financial report after the bell. The stock price rose as much as 6 percent, hitting a high of $35.81 a share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Roku to lose 15 cents per share in the first quarter on revenue of $127.6 million. Roku […]
Read moreAs the cryptocurrency market matures, bitcoin could be pushed out by competitors the same way the video cassette tape format Betamax lost out to rival VHS as home entertainment technology evolved during the 1980s, according to one tech investor. “Bitcoin could turn out to be Betamax,” North Island Chairman Glenn Hutchins told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” […]
Read moreSears Holdings is taking its relationship with Amazon one step further. The department store chain announced Wednesday at its annual shareholders’ meeting in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, that it will offer full-service tire installation for orders from all tire brands on Amazon, including its own DieHard. The rollout will begin in the coming weeks for those […]
Read moreDisney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger deserves praise for the company’s string of successful blockbuster films that crushed expectations and helped drive revenue, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday. The Dow component “is a hit machine,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” adding that other entertainment businesses haven’t been as successful in repeatedly producing big […]
Read moreFormer pro running back Ricky Williams’ NFL career was anything but conventional, so it should come as little surprise that his financial advice is also unorthodox. Williams has spent a chunk of his post-football life studying everything from holistic medicine to astrology and he tells CNBC Make It that the studying the cosmos actually informed […]
Read moreLondon’s Metropolitan Police force has been accused of racial discrimination over its use of a “gangs database” that an advocacy group has claimed breaches human rights. Amnesty International said Wednesday that the Met’s “Gang Violence Matrix,” a database holding information of approximately 3,800 people, listed a disproportionate amount of minorities. Seventy-eight percent of those listed […]
Read moreEarly results in Malaysia’s general election are trickling in, with Prime Minister Najib Razak taking an early lead. According to Reuters, who cite the local state news agency, Razak’s ruling Barisan Nasional coalition has won 24 parliament seats so far, while the opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan has taken 17. Malaysia’s former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, […]
Read moreOnline dating firm Match isn’t worried about Facebook encroaching on the business for one key reason — people don’t want to mix their online dating life with the friends-and-family-first Facebook, according to Match CEO Mandy Ginsberg. “The vast majority of singles would not want to use Facebook for dating primarily due to concerns with data […]
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