The content race is on. Just this week Apple announced plans to invest $1 billion to buy and produce original programing next year. In 2016, HBO spent a reported $2 billion on content, and in 2017, Netflix plans to spend a whopping $6 billion. There’s lots to watch, but is the viewer ready? Recode Managing […]
Read moreHundreds of security forces marched through a northern Indian town on Saturday to maintain calm after supporters of a quasi-religious sect leader protested his rape conviction with violence that left at least 30 people dead. Authorities appealed to thousands of followers of the guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insaan, […]
Read moreBelgian soldiers shot dead a man in the center of Brussels on Friday evening after he came at them with a knife shouting Allahu Akbar (God is great), in a case authorities are treating as a terrorist attack. The man, a 30-year-old Belgian of Somali origin, died after being rushed to hospital. The soldiers were […]
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Man with knife assaults two police officers outside Buckingham Palace
A man with a “large knife” who assaulted two police officers outside Buckingham Palace on Friday night has been arrested, British police said. The officers suffered minor injuries and were taken to a hospital for treatment. The man, who is in his mid-twenties according to the police, was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm […]
Read moreFacebook has recently hired former New York Times public editor Liz Spayd on a consulting basis to help manage the company’s efforts around giving users more “transparency” into how the massive social network makes decisions. A Facebook spokesperson said that her job would be to help expand early moves to chronicle what it does related […]
Read moreJim Cramer may not be a chartist, but he understands why charts are so important for predicting the market’s major moves. “You must consider them as if they are footprints at a scene of a crime. These footprints trace out what big money managers might be doing with their buying and selling of stocks,” the […]
Read moreNorth Korea early on Saturday fired an unidentified projectile into the sea off its east coast from its eastern Kangwon province, South Korea’s military said. The South Korean military official confirmed to NBC News that Pyongyang fired a projectile into the East Sea. The official also said that the launch was immediately reported to President […]
Read moreJeffrey Cohn runs a program that trains and grooms future CEOs — and he said that Uber’s board isn’t doing the best job of it at the moment. The ride-hailing start-up has been without a CEO since June, when founder Travis Kalanick stepped down following a wave of bad publicity. Since then, the board has […]
Read moreInvestors are pulling billions from the stock market, and for widely followed strategist Jim Paulsen, that’s a good sign. For 10 straight weeks a total of $30 billion has left U.S. stocks, according to a recent report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. It marks the longest streak of outflows since 2004. “I really like […]
Read moreRide-hailing pioneers Uber may be stemming losses and increasing bookings. But the company is still embroiled in bad PR and lawsuits on several fronts. Those distractions, combined with a vacuum in management there, leave Uber at serious risk of losing business to competitors like Lyft. On Friday, Uber’s former director of product design, Ethan Eismann, […]
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