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.
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
Espanyol have reached a preliminary agreement to sell Spanish winger Lucas Vazquez back to Real Madrid.
Paul Nicholls hailed Kauto Star a “once in a lifetime” horse after the dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner had to be put down due to injuries sustained in a paddock accident.
As Walt Mossberg wrote at Recode, it’s an impressive if slighty confusing first cut at a full-featured music streaming service. Perhaps Apple has better taste in music than I do (Apple probably has better taste in music than I do).
As Walt Mossberg wrote at Recode, it’s an impressive if slighty confusing first cut at a full-featured music streaming service. Perhaps Apple has better taste in music than I do (Apple probably has better taste in music than I do).
Marvel is tearing down its entire comic book universe with the current Secret Wars event. A purported leak of some 45 comic book covers might show us what remains after Secret Wars runs its course. A good one-fourth of the 45 covers here are Spider-related — including a visibly pregnant Spider-Woman and Venom as a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
A return to Canada for a second shot at the E.P. Taylor Stakes remains the main end of season target for Odeliz following her first win in Group-race company.
Marcos Rojo believes Angel Di Maria is the most talented player at Manchester United and has backed his Argentina team-mate to show that this season.
We were all surprised when Nvidia launched its 980 Ti in early June. Although strategically a sound marketing idea, considering the rumoured release of AMD’s 300 series lineup, it left us wondering where on Earth this monster child would sit. If you take a gander back to the days of the 700 series, however, what follows will come as little surprise. Back then, the GK110 Kepler architecture, boasting Titan Black,
