четверг, 27 октября 2016 г.

Australia's Gina Rinehart raises offer for Kidman estate

Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart and her Chinese partners raise their bid for the country's largest private landholding, the Kidman estate.

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Tata shares fall after ex-boss warning

hares in several Tata firms have fallen, a day after ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry warned the group risked up to $18bn of writedowns.

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среда, 26 октября 2016 г.

Barclays reports rise in profits

Barclays reports a jump in quarterly profits but sets aside another £600m to meet PPI claims.

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Deutsche Bank reports profit despite 'tough' environment

Embattled Deutsche Bank reports a surprise profit for the third quarter of the year.

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Samsung operating profit plunges 30% in wake of Note 7 fiasco

The world's largest smartphone maker Samsung sees its operating profit plunge by 30%, pulled down by the recall of its Note 7 flagship phone.

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Drivers 'face rising insurance bills'

Motorists are facing higher car insurance premiums than a year ago, a report from the AA suggests.

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Big Bang

Thirty years ago in a single day Big Bang deregulated the City of London, creating a financial sector many believe can withstand anything Brexit can throw at it.

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Big Bang: The day that made London a financial powerhouse

Thirty years ago today the City changed forever after radical new rules were introduced.

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Falling behind?

Does the falling value of the pound mean that the UK economy has fallen behind France?

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Ask Andy: What is GDP?

As the latest set of gross domestic product (GDP) figures come out, Andy Verity explains what it actually means.

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Tesla reports first quarterly profit for three years

Electric car maker Tesla reports net income of $21.9m (£17.9m) for the third quarter after 13 consecutive quarterly losses.

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Boeing set to deliver more planes in 2016

Shares in Boeing rise after the plane maker said it would deliver more aircraft than expected this year.

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Windows 10 update and Surface Studio PC unveiled

Microsoft details a new version of Windows that adds 3D-creation tools and a new all-in-one desktop PC.

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Apple 'leaks its own Macbook Pro laptop revamp'

Code hidden within the latest MacOS operating system appears to reveal a new laptop.

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вторник, 25 октября 2016 г.

Comedy writer penned a perfect response to his son's permission slip

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If one of your students is a comedy writer's kid, expect nothing less than mild public humiliation should you screw up.

When The Daily Show writer Daniel Radosh's son Milo came home with a permission slip requiring parental consent to read Fahrenheit 451, Radosh sent back a note highlighting the absurdity of such a request.

tfw your kid's school makes you sign a permission slip so he can read Fahrenheit 451 📚 🔥 http://pic.twitter.com/t9lmD8vKTu

— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) October 24, 2016

According to the original permission slip, Milo is in a book club that will begin reading Fahrenheit 451, the dystopian Ray Bradbury novel about book burning and censorship. The note mentioned plot points that might be viewed as problematic for other parents. For this comedian, however, it wasn't the novel's subject matter that stuck out.  Read more...

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Hit Korean movie 'Sunny' getting U.S. remake from producer Brett Ratner (Exclusive)

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Brett Ratner's company RatPac Entertainment and fellow producer/financier CJ Entertainment have hired Heather Hach (What to Expect When You're Expecting) to write an English-language remake of the hit 2011 South Korean dramedy Sunny, Mashable has exclusively learned.

Written and directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol, the original Sunny follows a middle-aged woman who tries to fulfill her friend's dying wish of reuniting their group of high school friends. The film alternates between two timelines — present day when the women are middle-aged, and the 1980s when they were in high school.

Sunny won several awards in South Korea, where it performed well enough to merit a limited release in the U.S. Read more...

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'Harry Potter' birthday party is way more intricate than you'd expect

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Harry Potter may have come out 19 years ago, but this party was 29 years in the making.

Liz Edmonds, a.k.an3rdychik on Imgur, shared photos of her intricate Harry Potter-themed 29th birthday party, complete with, well, way more Wizarding World references than you are expecting.

The party was thrown together by her friends as a surprise for Edmonds, and she was totally blown away.

"I've never had a surprise birthday party, let alone a Harry Potter themed party. I'm stationed in Germany and leaving to go back to the US 5 days before my birthday," she wrote on ImgurRead more...

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97-year-old Pearl Harbor Vet is living his dream of seeing the Cubs in the World Series

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Die-hard Chicago Cubs fan and 97-year-old Jim Schlegel still has his ticket stubs from Games 6 and 7 of the 1945 World Series.

So when his granddaughter Helen Schlegel found out the Cubs were heading to the World Series for the first time in 71 years, she knew the biggest Cubs fan in her life had to be there to witness history.

Helen promptly set up a GoFundMe page to share her grandfather's story and  managed to score two tickets to Game 3. 

The plan was to raise $10,000 through the GoFundMe campaign with the intention of purchasing tickets. After the campaign raised over $800 in one night it caught the eye of Marcus Lemonis of CNBC's The Profit. Touched by the story, Lemonis tweeted his desire to take Schlegel to the game as his guest. After connecting with his granddaughter, he decided to give Jim his two front row tickets for free so that he could bring his own guest.  Read more...

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The Weather Company enters the chatbot game for Facebook Messenger

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When IBM bought The Weather Channel for $2 billion in 2015, analysts were fairly uniform in their responses: What are they thinking?

Now, IBM is beginning to make clear how it is using this vast amount of weather and climate data that the company has collected for years on a second-by-second, worldwide basis. 

On Tuesday, IBM announced that The Weather Channel has launched a Watson-powered "cognitive weather bot" for Facebook Messenger. 

The Weather Channel bot gives users a new way to access and share personalized weather content including current conditions, severe weather alerts and five-day forecasts.  Read more...

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Kim Kardashian settled her lawsuit against MediaTakeOut for saying she faked the Paris robbery

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The internet is Kim Kardashian West's domain, so tread carefully, as MediaTakeout learned the hard way.

Kardashian West sued the gossip website for publishing articles that suggested she staged the robbery in Paris as a publicity stunt or insurance fraud scheme. 

Now, following an apology and retraction from MediaTakeOut, Kardashian West has settled the lawsuit, a representative for the social media star and entrepreneur confirmed to Mashable

The website deleted the offending posts, which cited "people on social media" as reliable sources, and issued a retraction on Monday.  Read more...

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