by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
In 1969, a giant earthquake off the coast of Portugal kicked up a tsunami that killed over a dozen people. Some 200 years prior, an even larger earthquake hit the same area, killing around 100,000 people and destroying the city of Lisbon.Two earthqua...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Retailers at risk from the Seattle-based company’s expansion underperformed the S&P 500 Index by more than 10 percentage points in the year through April 25, according to the benchmark. The equally-weighted portfolio, which includes Barnes & Noble I...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Palestine Telecommunications Co. has built a $10 million data center in Ramallah to position the Palestinian Authority as a networking bridge from the Middle East to Europe. PalTel has sold all of the capacity to Palestinian banks and institutions a...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
CLVS earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2019.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Pretty pleased with yourself? Won the war with your waistline, picked the right partner, scaled the career ladder and formed some unassailable political views along the way? Bad news. You can take less credit for your life choices (and even those bel...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
AstraZeneca agreed in March agreed to pay up to $6.9 billion to work with Daiichi on the drug known as trastuzumab deruxtecan, in a direct challenge to Roche. The treatment, also known as DS-8201, demonstrated a clinically meaningful response in pat...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Tracking corporate jets often fuels speculation that makes predicting where a company's next deal may come from harder rather than easier, according to several hedge fund analysts interviewed by Reuters. "Historically, flight tracking services have...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The proposal would “substantially lessen competition” for mobile-phone services in an already concentrated market, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement Wednesday. TPG is Australia’s best -- and probably the last --...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The vetted spots are comparable to iconic Apple locations on Fifth Avenue in New York, Regent Street in London or the Champs-Elysees in Paris, they said. Apple has been prohibited from opening its own stores in the country because it doesn’t meet lo...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The announcements were dotted throughout nearly two hours of product updates from the search giant at its annual Google I/O developers' conference. Google also launched its lowest priced smartphone yet, the Pixel 3a, and demonstrated upcoming capabi...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Sentiment has soured just as China plans to open a Nasdaq-style board, expected as soon as June. It suffered its biggest loss since 2016 on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose higher tariffs on Chinese imports. “The slump...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Siemens' decision to separate and spin off its struggling gas and power business is intended to strengthen the group's remaining businesses, Chief Executive Joe Kaeser said on Wednesday. "It is about further developing a company which is changing fu...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Wirecard AG raised its earnings forecast for the year after first-quarter profit jumped on growing transactions, suggesting allegations of accounting irregularities aren’t affecting the German payments company’s business. Increasing its 2019 profit...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Billed as an international protest in advance of Uber Technologies Inc.’s planned initial public offering this week, drivers in London and nearby cities said they would turn off their apps at 7 a.m. on Wednesday. At issue are long-standing disputes...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Tencent concurrently pulled the plug on the mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a title it was never allowed to make money on after Beijing imposed a months-long freeze on approvals. The game’s testing phase formally ended Wednesday, Te...