John McAfee, the creator of eponymous antivirus computer software, has settled a lawsuit against Intel over his right to use his name on other projects after the chipmaker bought his former company. U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan dismissed McAfee’s September 2016 lawsuit and a countersuit by Intel on Wednesday, five days after a […]
Read moreTrader Joe’s has Two Buck Chuck. Amazon? A new wine label called Next with bottles costing $20, $30 and $40 a pop. The company recently announced that it helped develop this new wine brand produced by King Vintners, a subsidiary of Oregon’s King Estate Winery, and had started selling it on Amazon.com. In a press […]
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FREE-TRADE agreements have seemed out of fashion as President Donald Trump has set about scotching some of America’s. But on July 5th Cecilia Malmström, the EU trade commissioner, and Fumio Kishida, the Japanese foreign minister, announced they had achieved consensus on a Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (JEEPA). In front of the cameras, they swapped Japanese […]
Read morePresident Donald Trump has called on his foreign allies to take action against North Korea’s missile threat. Speaking in Warsaw in Poland Thursday, where Trump is meeting with his NATO partners, the U.S. president said that North Korea is behaving in a “very, very dangerous manner” and that something needs to be done about it. […]
Read moreTroubled commodity trader Noble saw its shares surge in Thursday afternoon trade, but it wasn’t clear what drove the sudden rush into the beaten down stock. The stock rose as much as 38.30 percent to a high of 65 Singapore cents ($0.47)in late afternoon trade, before retracing slightly to end up 36.17 percent, or 17 […]
Read moreIsrael’s high-tech industry is brimming with products that have made the jump from military application to civilian markets, both software and hardware, from cybersecurity to drones and from navigation to imaging. And the bigger the military reputation, the more impact the technology is likely to have. One of the most iconic names currently in the […]
Read moreTwitter Inc and Snap Inc are seeking online rights to video highlights from Twenty-first Century Fox Inc for next year’s soccer World Cup, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The companies have offered tens of millions of dollars for rights to video highlights for the Russia-hosted tournament that air in the United States, Bloomberg reported, citing two […]
Read moreU.K. Foreign Minister Boris Johnson has praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter, suggesting he would like a degree of freedom. “I think actually that Donald Trump’s approach to politics has been something that has gripped the imagination of people around the world. He’s engaged people in politics in a way that we haven’t […]
Read moreVirgin Australia has launched a play for the lucrative Chinese tourist market, with flights to Hong Kong beginning from Thursday. Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday that Hong Kong was the perfect gateway to China. “You’re geographically situated in a position where, within a five-hour flight time, you can access […]
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Trump to say 'fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive'
U.S. President Donald Trump will praise individual freedom and sovereignty on Thursday in what seem to be comments directed squarely at the Europe Union. Excerpts of the speech in Warsaw, Poland, were released by the White House on Thursday morning and show that President Trump will condemn government bureaucracy. “On both sides of the Atlantic, […]
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