In a bid to challenge the likes of Apple and Fitbit in the health space, two new fitness-focused smartwatches and a pair of wireless earbuds equipped with its voice assistant Bixby hahs been launched by Samsung. The three products launched are the Samsung Gear Sport smartwatch, the Gear Fit 2 Pro fitness band and the IconX 2018 wireless Bluetooth…
A global powerhouse worth $280 billion on China’s Valentine’s Day was created by matching the country’s top coal miner with one of its biggest utilities as Beijing announced its latest arranged marriage. But the union may spark jealousy elsewhere even as couples across the country celebrated the Qixi Festival. A bigger rival with an outsized…
Worries of fresh tension between Washington and Pyongyang were raised after North Korea fired a missile over northern Japan which resulted in world stocks tumbling and safe-haven assets soaring on Tuesday. A rally in the euro to above a key level chipped in to put regional stocks on track at one point for their biggest…
Portraying German Chancellor Angela Merkel as slow to tackle the country’s diesel-car crisis, soft on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and out of touch with voters, her main election opponent stepped up his attacks on her record. Merkel, whose Christian Democratic-led bloc leads the SPD by as many as 17 percentage points in national polls,…
In order to fund the development of technology that connects human brains with computers, Neuralink Corp., the startup co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has taken steps to sell as much as $100 million in stock. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the San Francisco-based company has already gotten $27 million in…
While warning about demographic challenges to growth, the global recovery is improving, but like an increasing number of financial and business leaders, said European Central Bank President Mairo Draghi on Friday. Noting its highest against the U.S. dollar since January 2015 after Draghi’s initial remark, the euro spiked 1 percent to a high of $1.1940. “The global recovery is…
Taking extra long holidays during summer is ne reputation that Europeans have. Leaving businesses closed or operating on summer hours, the term “fellesferie” refers to two or three weeks of vacation time workers collectively take in July in Norway. construction holidays called “bouwvak” for several weeks is taken by employees in the building industry in…
In what was her fullest defense yet of the regulations enacted after the Great Recession, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that without impeding economic growth and any changes to these rules should remain modest, reforms put in place after the 2007 to 2009 crisis have strengthened the financial system. “The balance of research suggests…
A management role in the business of Toshiba Corp’s memory chip unit is not being sought by Western Digital Corp (WDC.O), part of a group offering to buy the Japanese conglomerate’s chip unit, reported Reuters quoting several people familiar with the matter. With the aim to cover losses from its bankrupt U.S. nuclear business Westinghouse,…
The lira could be a big winner if Janet Yellen and friends add any fuel to the rally in emerging-market currencies at Jackson Hole. The likes of Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Societe Generale SA are bullish about Turkey’s currency even as it is on course for its seventh monthly gain. That’s because the lira…
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