Apple Music first hands on
Apple Music has just launched, so we’re walking through how it works just minutes after it’s available across the globe. Here’s how to find your own music and new music from Apple’s Curators in the new app
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Iran, powers give themselves to July 7 to strike deal
By Parisa Hafezi and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers gave themselves an extra week to reach a final nuclear accord after it became clear they would miss a deadline on Tuesday, with U.S. and Iranian officials sounding upbeat even though obstacles remain. With all sides accepting that Tuesday’s original deadline would come and go without an agreement, Iran and the six powers agreed to extend
Iran, powers give themselves to July 7 to strike deal
By Parisa Hafezi and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers gave themselves an extra week to reach a final nuclear accord after it became clear they would miss a deadline on Tuesday, with U.S. and Iranian officials sounding upbeat even though obstacles remain. With all sides accepting that Tuesday’s original deadline would come and go without an agreement, Iran and the six powers agreed to extend
GE to sell European private equity financing unit to SMBC
General Electric Co said it would sell its European private equity financing business to a unit of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) for about $2.2 billion as the U.S. conglomerate sheds financial assets amid a restructuring. This makes the deal attractive to the core banking unit of Japan’s third largest bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) , which is trying to diversify away from the fiercely competitive corporate lending
GE to sell European private equity financing unit to SMBC
General Electric Co said it would sell its European private equity financing business to a unit of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) for about $2.2 billion as the U.S. conglomerate sheds financial assets amid a restructuring. This makes the deal attractive to the core banking unit of Japan’s third largest bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) , which is trying to diversify away from the fiercely competitive corporate lending
GE Capital CEO sees asset sale pace speeding up in third quarter
GE on April 10 unveiled plans to shed some $200 billion in finance assets, and has since forged agreements for about $23 billion in asset sales. “It took us a while to get these businesses and the data and the transactions in the marketplace,” GE Capital Chief Executive Keith Sherin told Reuters in an interview.
GE Capital CEO sees asset sale pace speeding up in third quarter
GE on April 10 unveiled plans to shed some $200 billion in finance assets, and has since forged agreements for about $23 billion in asset sales. “It took us a while to get these businesses and the data and the transactions in the marketplace,” GE Capital Chief Executive Keith Sherin told Reuters in an interview.
World's poorest gain access to water, but not toilets
By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The poor’s lack of access to sanitation threatens to undermine the health benefits they have gained from access to clean water, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 90 percent of the world population has access to clean water, but 2.4 billion people, most in rural areas, continue to live without toilets, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF and World Health Organisation