The best time to upgrade your smartphone It isn’t easy being a smartphone fan, especially if your timing’s bad: no sooner has the ink dried on that two-year contract for the Uber Mega X than it’s rendered obsolete by the slightly thinner, slightly faster Uber Mega Y. And that got us thinking: are there patterns here? Should we be buying Samsung’s in spring and Sony’s in summer? Is August ever
It’s been a week since we heard the sad news of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s passing. Iwata was a games industry genius, an incredibly kind-hearted man and a figure who inspired such feeling in people that thousands turned up to his two-day funeral. An outpouring of genuine, heartfelt sorrow, thanks and love took over social media, with many telling stories to illustrate how much Iwata meant to them, and others
Getting the most out of running photos Morning, running fans. I’ll admit to you now – I’ve not tested anything new in the last week, as I’ve been in New York for work (although here’s a tip: if you’re in the Big Apple, don’t go stereotypical and roll around Central Park over and over again – head south to Prospect Park in Brooklyn. It’s lovely). I’m feeling good though, as
Google Inc’s strong quarterly results, which unleashed a massive surge in its shares on Friday, has investors feeling upbeat heading into next week’s tech-heavy slate of earnings reports. Among the numerous tech companies releasing earnings next week are International Business Machines, Microsoft Corp and Apple, all of which are expected to show growth. Wall Street analysts expect earnings of the S&P technology sector to grow by 2.7 percent for the
The Greek government ordered banks to open on Monday, three weeks after they were shut down to prevent the system collapsing under a flood of withdrawals, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looked to the start of new bailout talks next week. The decree to re-open the banks came hours after new ministers were sworn in following a cabinet reshuffle in which Tsipras replaced dissident members of his ruling Syriza party
China must learn lessons from its stock market rout, the country’s vice finance minister said on Saturday, signaling his intent to focus on supervision and the development of new frameworks to make it possible to weather any future market turbulence. China’s stock market plunged by nearly a third at one stage earlier this month from a mid-June peak, wiping around $4 trillion from share values as investors were spooked by
The lawsuit, brought by Fort Worth Employees’ Retirement Fund and other investors in offerings made before the 2008 financial crisis, accused JPMorgan of misleading them about the underwriting, appraisals and credit quality of the home loans underlying the certificates. The lawsuit said that after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc failed, the certificates were worth at most 62 cents on the dollar. JPMorgan agreed to a $13 billion settlement with the Justice
LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) (FCHA.MI) is considering whether to sell its auto parts maker Magneti Marelli after receiving interest from potential buyers, according to sources familiar with the matter. A recent offer, by a group including a U.S. buyout fund and valuing the business at less than 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion), was rebuffed in June as FCA would not agree to sell for less than 3
The lawsuits by the city of Los Angeles and by Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, accused Wells Fargo of steering black and Hispanic borrowers into higher-cost loans, a process sometimes called “reverse redlining”. Los Angeles and Chicago are the second- and third-most populous U.S. cities.
Google’s class A shares chalked up their largest single-day percentage change in more than seven years on Friday. The rise in Google’s market value was more than the total market capitalization of Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N), the world’s biggest construction equipment maker. Google’s shares hit a record high of $703, valuing it at $471.50 billion and cementing its position as the world’s second most valuable company after Apple Inc (AAPL.O).
