a Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Trims Nintendo Stake Again By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:33 GMT Full Article
a Grubhub reportedly in talks to be acquired by Marc Lore’s Wonder startup By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:16 GMT The European company had acquired Grubhub in 2020 in an all-stock deal for $7.8 billion, creating the world’s largest food delivery company outside China at the time. A deal for Grubhub could be finalized imminently, assuming the talks do not fall apart, the report said, adding that Grubhub is… Full Article
a Asia-Pacific markets fall after Wall Street postelection rally fizzles By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:30 GMT Asia-Pacific stock markets were trading mostly lower Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street as the U.S. post election rally stalled overnight. Asian traders assessed corporate goods data out of Japan, which showed year-on-year producer price growth, or wholesale inflation, in October reached… Full Article
a Just Eat Takeaway sells US unit Grubhub for $650 million By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:42 GMT In This Article: (Reuters) - Europe's biggest meal delivery firm Just Eat Takeaway said on Wednesday it struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million. (Reporting by Michal Aleksandrowicz; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman) Full Article
a SoftwareOne reports "disappointing" Q3 results By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:45 GMT SoftwareOne Holding sales increased during its third quarter by 1.4%, the company said on Wednesday, adding that discussions about taking it private were progressing but were "challenging". Group revenues increased to 236.7 million Swiss francs ($268.06 million), while adjusted core operating… Full Article
a Why investors should stick with stocks despite warnings of a ‘lost decade’ ahead By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:55 GMT Full Article
a Interval Funds Are Hot. Do Investors Understand the Risks? By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:07 GMT Full Article
a Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:13 GMT Humphreys's product dramatically reduces the price and increases the portability of the life-affirming treatment. Read more: Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards Full Article
a Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 bln By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:28 GMT Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. Full Article
a ‘Fart blaster’ tops Christmas toy wishlist as experts predict record sales By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:33 GMT Despicable Me 4 tie-in smells more like popcorn while a waddling duck and an interactive pet monkey also feature A “fart blaster” with a repertoire of 15 sounds that blasts “fog fart rings” and a waddling mother duck are among the toys destined to appear on Christmas lists as experts predict a… Full Article
a Musk, Ramaswamy Picked for US Government Efficiency Effort By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:11 GMT Full Article
a Web Summit: Chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann to face global opponents advised by AI By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:27 GMT Hans Niemann is gearing up to play tens of thousands of players simultaneously at Web Summit. The chess world will try and break a new record at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon this week when Grandmaster Hans Niemann competes online against what he hopes will be tens of thousands of… Full Article
a COP29 host Azerbaijan hits out at West in defence of oil and gas By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:21 GMT President Ilham Aliyev described his country as a victim of a "well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail". Full Article
a Dogecoin Trade Goes From Meme to Reality as Donald Trump Confirms D.O.G.E By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:27 GMT In an X post, Musk said that all Department of Government Efficiency actions will be posted online for maximum transparency. Full Article
a New polls show growing support for Czechia’s populist Motorists party By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:27 GMT The right-wing populist party Motorists for Themselves, part of the Patriots for Europe group, has made significant gains, according to new polling data published by the Median agency. According to a poll conducted for the Czech News Agency, the Motorists could win 6% of the vote in the upcoming… Full Article
a Elon Musk wades into Italian political drama over Albanian migrant deal By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:39 GMT In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about new polls showing growing support for Czechia's populist Motorists party, billionaire Elon Musk slamming Italian judges in row with Meloni, and so much more. Full Article
a AltLayer unveils ‘Autonome,’ a platform to create and deploy autonomous AI agents By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:15 GMT This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the… Full Article
a Australia plans to ban social media for under 16s — and experts have called it a ‘momentous step’ By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:24 GMT One expert says Australia is "on the verge of reclaiming childhood after it had been stolen for 15 years." Full Article
a US Climate Official Tells COP29 Oil Boom Aids Energy Transition By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Full Article
a Former Walmart Executive’s Startup Is Near Deal to Buy Grubhub By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:12 GMT Full Article
a JPL Workforce Update By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:20 GMT JPL statement issued on Nov. 12, 2024: While we have taken various measures to meet our current FY’25 budget allocation, we have reached the difficult decision to reduce the JPL workforce through layoffs. This reduction affects approximately 325 of our colleagues, an impact of about 5% of our… Full Article
a Bitcoin pushes past $90K amid meteoric 24-hour rally By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:30 GMT Full Article
a teardown: the SSD module is proprietary but replaceable, modular front ports, and the M4 Pro model has a beefier cooling rig than the M4 model By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:32 GMT It shouldn’t be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple’s cute new 2024 Mac mini, that’s exactly where we are. It’s possible to pop the SSD out after removing a screw, and then switch in a bigger one. We didn’t run into the software blocks we saw in the… Full Article
a Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 billion By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:37 GMT In This Article: TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. The share transfer is planned for Dec. 1,… Full Article
a ‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:48 GMT There is “no sign” of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to set another new record for global carbon emissions. The new data, released at the UN’s Cop29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, indicates that the… Full Article
a FTSE 100 Live: Pound Sinks Further to Lowest Level Since August By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:02 GMT Full Article
a What Are Republics, Exactly? By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:22 GMT Republican ideals have evolved over millennia. Modern republics face challenges in upholding their foundational principles. Full Article
a Indian Fund Teams Up With UK and Norway to Boost Struggling Power Grid with $300 Million Injection By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:52 GMT Full Article
a China battery giant CATL would build US plant if Trump allows it, chairman says By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:24 GMT China battery giant CATL would build US plant if Trump allows it, chairman says Trump wants to block Chinese EV, battery imports but open to US plants with American workers Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s top battery maker, will consider building a US plant if president-elect… Full Article
a J. Zachary Mazlish on median wages under Biden By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:42 GMT An excellent post, one of the best things written this year in economics. Here is part of the bottom line: Inflation did make the median voter poorer during Biden’s term. In no part of the income distribution did wages grow faster while Biden was President than they did 2012-2020. This is true in… Full Article
a Shopify stock skyrockets ahead of the holiday season By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:00 GMT Full Article
a Japan's 7-Eleven owner eyes going private with $38bn buyout By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:16 GMT TOKYO -- Japan's 7-Eleven convenience store chain owner Seven & i Holdings is considering plans to go private by means of a management buyout, Nikkei learned on Wednesday. In a statement responding to the reports, the retail giant has admitted that it has received such an offer from its founding… Full Article
a Markets Everywhere Are Getting Rattled by Trump’s US Agenda By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Donald Trump’s election victory has catapulted US stocks to fresh records and pushed the dollar to a two-year high. It’s anything but good news for the rest of the world. Most Read from Bloomberg Equities excluding the US are tumbling, with an MSCI gauge at its lowest in three months. An index of… Full Article
a A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims to match GPT-4o's coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac 12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well… Full Article
a German lithium plant hopes to turbo-charge Europe’s EV makers By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:46 GMT Vulcan Energy says its new plant west of Frankfurt, now in its pilot phase, plans to soon produce lithium for batteries used by auto manufacturers including Volkswagen, Renault and Stellantis. Full Article
a Europe lower in premarket as US inflation takes center stage By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:42 GMT European stock indexes traded lower in Wednesday's premarket session, with the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) report firmly on investors' radar ahead of its release at 2:30 pm CET. Analysts anticipate ... Full Article
a Daniel Lurie: San Francisco's moderate next mayor By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:06 GMT The City by the Bay will soon have a new leader, as Democrat Daniel Lurie was elected the next mayor of San Francisco on Nov. 7. Lurie, a political newcomer, beat a fellow Democrat, incumbent Mayor London Breed, to earn the city's top job. He won the mayoral race by a large margin; Lurie led… Full Article
a Mutual Fund Investors Face Unwanted Tax Bills. Are You on the List? By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:11 GMT Full Article
a Europe premarket lower as US inflation takes center stage By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:07 GMT European stock indexes traded lower in Tuesday's premarket session, with the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) report firmly on investors' radar ahead of its release at 2:30 pm CET. Analysts anticipate in... Full Article
a "We Must Do Whatever It Takes!" - Netherlands Reinstates Temporary Border Controls To Curve Illegal Immigration By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:57 GMT "We Must Do Whatever It Takes!" - Netherlands Reinstates Temporary Border Controls To Curve Illegal Immigration Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Netherlands has announced it will reintroduce internal border checks starting Dec. 9 in fresh efforts to manage illegal immigration. The… Full Article
a TV to watch in November, from 'Dune: Prophecy' to 'A Man on the Inside' By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:04 GMT A new comedy from 'The Good Place' creator, a prequel to 'Dune' and the conclusion of one of America's most popular shows Full Article
a How to save a bundle on children’s clothes By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:51 GMT From swap meets to looking after clothes correctly, you can save cash while making your children’s wardrobes more sustainable Charity shops can be a goldmine for bargains – use the Charity Retail Association’s online search page to find ones that stock children’s clothes, or in London, head to one… Full Article
a BT has left my 80-year-old dad without a landline for months By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:29 GMT After hours of calls to BT, engineer no-shows, complaints raised and multiple promises, nothing has happened I am desperate to help my 80-year-old dad, JF, and his partner who have been left without a landline for more than two months by BT. This is especially difficult as my dad has relatives in… Full Article
a Climate change is threatening Florida's Key deer By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:16 GMT As the United States continues to feel the effects of global warming and rising sea levels, there is renewed concern for the Key deer, a species native to the Florida Keys who could be pushed to cataclysmic levels by environmental change. The animal is the smallest deer species in North America —… Full Article
a Dogecoin Craze Grips Korea, Fuels Price Premium on Local Giants Upbit and Bithumb By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:33 GMT DOGE trades at premium on Upbit and Bithumb relative to Binance. - The price differential is still noticeably lower than the previous bull market peaks. Today is just that day as Koreans seem to be jumping into the DOGE market, driving prices higher and creating a noticeable premium on local… Full Article
a Ford is slashing the working hours of some of its German factory employees amid what it calls a 'significantly lower than expected' demand for its EVs By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:53 GMT Ford is getting its workers in Cologne, Germany, to work fewer hours. The carmaker said a "lower than expected demand for electric vehicles" brought on the shift. The carmaker has more than 4,000 employees at its Cologne plant. Ford is slashing the work hours of its manufacturing plant workers in… Full Article
a Bitcoin Rally Cools After Jump of About 30% Since Trump Victory By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:57 GMT A surge in Bitcoin has paused as traders assess the remaining market impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetorical support for crypto. Most Read from Bloomberg The digital asset is up about 30% in the wake of Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory, hitting a record of $89,968 on Tuesday, based on… Full Article
a Japan's Seven & i says receives buyout proposal from founding Ito family By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:15 GMT Full Article
a YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:16 GMT YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts. The small group of creators with access can enter a prompt to change up different elements in a song, such as its mood or genre, and the expansion of YouTube’s Dream Track AI feature will… Full Article
a Thames Water Gets Key Creditor Support to Advance Rescue Plan By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:50 GMT Full Article