We’re told to never judge a book by its cover, but it’s apparently fine to judge what lies inside Mars by listening to the echoes of meteorite impacts. We know very little about the interior of the Red Planet. We know that once it had a global magnetic field and active volcanoes, but it’s unclear if the core is still molten or not. If it is, plate tectonics and earthquakes
By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Whoever was behind the latest theft of personal data from U.S. government computers, they appear to be following a new trend set by cybercriminals: targeting increasingly valuable medical records and personnel files. This data, experts say, is worth a lot more to cybercriminals than, say, credit card information. Cyber investigators from iSight Partners said they had linked the OPM hack to earlier thefts of
By Matt Spetalnick and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Cyber investigators linked the breach to earlier thefts of healthcare records from Anthem Inc, the second largest U.S. health insurer, and Premera Blue Cross, a healthcare
By Georgina Prodhan BERLIN (Reuters) – Tohid Tasoujian is a co-founder of online fashion store Taxi Moda and one of a growing breed of Internet entrepreneurs in sanctions-hit Iran. Digikala went on to attract a $10 million investment from a European fund last year, making headlines as this valued the company at $150 million, while Cafe Bazaar’s co-founder Hessam Armandehi is a poster child for Iran’s high-tech scene.
By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – A new United Nations fund set up to help developing nations tackle climate change will take bigger risks than many international lenders to promote innovative green technologies, the head of the fund said on Friday. Hela Cheikhrouhou, executive director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), told Reuters that donor pledges of $10.2 billion so far were a good start but only a fraction of
By Sarah Young and Pamela Barbaglia LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone, the world’s second-biggest mobile telecoms company, said on Friday it was in talks with Europe’s largest cable operator, Liberty Global, about an exchange of “selected assets” but was not discussing a full-blown merger. “Vodafone is not in discussions with Liberty Global concerning a combination of the two companies,” the company said in a statement responding to media speculation on Friday.
Traders see a 53-percent chance that the first Fed rate hike will come at the Fed’s second-to-last meeting of the year, based on CME FedWatch, which tracks rate hike expectations using its Fed funds futures contracts. Before Friday’s report on May jobs, traders appeared convinced that the Fed would need to wait until at least December and perhaps into next year before removing any of its monetary policy accommodation. An
A new study shows more financial advisors are getting on the passive-investing bandwagon, now favoring ETFs over traditional mutual fund investments.
Wal-Mart says board Chairman Rob Walton will step down and be succeeded by Vice Chairman Greg Penner, who is Walton’s son-in-law. The world’s largest retailer says the change will take effect at the end …
OPEC again agreed to cede no ground to rival producers, keeping its faith that U.S. shale drillers and other higher-cost rivals will capitulate first.