British firefighters said on Friday they were investigating the cause of smoke on an underground train at Oxford Circus station in the centre of London’s main shopping district, although police said the incident was not being treated as suspicious. “We are continuing to investigate smoke issuing at platform level at #OxfordCircus tube station,” London Fire […]
Read moreTech stocks could be set to continue outpacing other industries, an analyst has told CNBC. “Tech companies are beating earnings way better than any other group in the S&P, so we do think that’s going to continue,” Mike Bailey, director of research at FBB Capital Partners, told CNBC on Friday. The analyst’s enthusiasm corresponds with […]
Read moreThe search engine giant Google has unveiled a new doodle on its home page commemorating the birth of hip hop 44 years ago. By clicking on today’s Google doodle you are transported to an interactive player that allows you to choose records, fade between them, choose the pace of the beat and even scratch. For […]
Read moreRevenues from Snap Inc’s video recording sunglasses Spectacles fell in the second quarter, adding to the disappointment felt by investors after it reported revenues and user growth that missed expectations. On the earnings call for the June quarter, Snap’s Chief Financial Officer Drew Vollero said: “other revenues were $5.4 million, substantially all of which was […]
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Future pilots could operate multiple planes from the ground, UBS analyst says
Jobs being threatened, or at least dramatically altered, by automation is a hot topic – and airline pilots are no exception to the trend. One vision of the future role of pilots, put forward on CNBC’s Squawk Box Thursday by UBS analyst Jarrod Castle, was that: “We’ll go from two pilots down to one with […]
Read moreChina should remain neutral if North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday, sounding a warning for Pyongyang over its plans to fire missiles near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. The comments from the influential Global Times came after U.S. President Donald Trump stepped up […]
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EUROPEAN markets have started the day with losses of 1% or so, following a 2% decline in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index and the 1% loss in the S&P 500 index on Thursday. The Vix, a much used measure of market fear, jumped to 16, its highest level since the Presidential election. These are significant […]
Read moreThe hacker who stole TV show scripts from HBO has leaked an email showing a company executive offering $250,000 as a “bounty payment” to the cyber-thief, according to two news outlets. Last week, details of a data breach at HBO came to light. Scripts from shows such as “Game of Thrones” were leaked online ahead […]
Read moreFrom hacking agriculture to developing inexpensive tools for tuberculosis patients, Microsoft researchers in India are trying to solve myriad social problems in the subcontinent. India is a research and development hot-bed for large tech companies like Microsoft for several reasons: It has an increasingly middle-class young population and it has significant challenges present in society […]
Read moreSouth Korea’s stocks rallied to record highs last month and analysts turned increasingly bullish, but that may have just gotten derailed by the rising spat between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The benchmark Kospi index climbed to a record intraday high of 2453.17 in late July, which at that point was […]
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