Spain’s soccer league, La Liga, will have a new home in the U.K. and Ireland from next season, after the rights to screen matches were bought by television group Eleven Sports. For the last two decades, Spanish football has been shown live on Sky television, but the broadcaster lost out on the rights to screen […]
Read moreAt ESPN’s inaugural NewFront presentation on Wednesday, the sports channel said a daily edition of its “SportsCenter” program will come soon to the ESPN app. Hosted by Scott Van Pelt and several other “SportsCenter” anchors, the series will feature clips and news, including top plays, highlights and what fans should expect in the coming day. […]
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QUAYSIDE, a 12-acre (4.8-hectare) stretch of flood-prone land on Toronto’s eastern waterfront, is home to a vast, pothole-filled parking lot, low-slung buildings and huge soyabean silos—a crumbling vestige of the area’s bygone days as an industrial port. Many consider it an eyesore but for Sidewalk Labs, an “urban innovation” subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, […]
Read moreInvestors are getting too weighed down by worry and aren’t focusing enough on all the stock market has going for it, according to Credit Suisse. Stocks have been struggling all year to gain footing amid myriad fears over trade tensions, the inflation specter and concern that while earnings have been strong, this might be as […]
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A ‘sinister’ element could be weakening Europe’s growth, Citi economist says
Sluggish growth figures for Europe in the first three months of this year may not all be down to temporary factors, according to a Citi economist. The economy of both the 19-nation single currency area and the 28-nation European Union (EU) grew by 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2018. That still represents growth, […]
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Spain's Basque region militant group ETA announces it has ‘completely dissolved’
The Basque militant group ETA has announced that it has “completely dissolved all its structures,” in a letter sent to Basque institutions and civil society groups. In the letter, dated April 16 but only made public on Wednesday in Spanish online newspaper eldiario.es, ETA says it acknowledges its responsibility in failing to solve the Basque […]
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer was unimpressed by the performance of Snap‘s leaders on the company’s post-earnings (er, post-loss) call with analysts on Tuesday night. “I thought this was a ‘Saturday Night Live’ parody of a conference call,” Cramer said Wednesday morning. “I just didn’t think it had anything like a real conference call.” Cramer said he […]
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Finance minister role could ‘damage the reputation of the euro zone,’ think tank warns
The creation of a euro zone finance minister could “damage the reputation” of the economic bloc, a think tank warned Wednesday. The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) said that a new position spearheading fiscal policy would add little value to the continent. “The creation of a European finance minister should by no means be […]
Read moreIreland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU users’ data to the United States. The case is the latest to question whether methods used by technology firms such […]
Read moreSeveral analysts and banks have suggested in recent weeks that demand for Apple’s most high-end iPhone, the iPhone X, has been waning. Apple proved them wrong in its earnings report on Tuesday evening. Several companies, including Consumer Intelligence Research Partners and Mirabaud Securities, said recently — in different terms — that demand for Apple’s iPhone […]
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