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Time for a change! Ariana Grande surprised her 43.5 million Instagram followers on Sunday when she broke the norm and released her signature ponytail, letting her hair down to reveal her…
By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) – Tech giants such as Google Inc and upstarts like Shopify Inc are rapidly expanding their presence in and around BlackBerry’s hometown of Waterloo, Ontario, even as the smartphone maker further pares back some of its teams. Canada’s newest tech darling Shopify, which went public this year and is valued at $2.75 billion, will soon announce a major expansion in the region, according to three
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Passengers on European short-haul flights are to be offered high-speed internet access using a combined satellite and air-to-ground network to be built by Britain’s Inmarsat and Deutsche Telekom. The platform will cater for travellers in Europe, which includes some of the highest density air-traffic routes in the world, and provide levels of speed and coverage comparable to home broadband services, the companies said at a joint press
(Reuters) – Skype, Microsoft Corp’s online telephone and video service, said some users are unable to make calls on Monday because their settings show that they and their contacts are off line, even when they are logged in. In an updated blog post, Skype also said some messages to group chats are not being delivered and that users who are not already signed in may face difficulty while accessing their
By Leila Abboud PARIS (Reuters) – French data privacy regulators took a step towards sanctioning Google by rejecting the company’s request to drop a case against it for refusing to clean up information from its search engine results. Under Europe’s so-called right to be forgotten, individuals can ask search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing to remove information that appears under a search of their name if it is
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The St. Louis Fed chief told CNBC the decision to leave rates unchanged last week was a “close call.”
Current market perceptions of China are “thoroughly divorced” from the reality on the ground, according to the latest China Beige Book survey.
U.S. home sales slid in August by the most since January as tight supplies and rising prices discouraged potential buyers. The National Association of Realtors said Monday that sales of existing homes …
Macy’s Inc. plans to hire about 85,000 seasonal workers for temporary jobs ahead of the holidays to meet expected higher demand. That is about the same as a year ago. The announcement comes as other retailers …