by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Chevron Corp's first-quarter profit fell 27 percent from a year earlier due to lower crude oil prices and weaker margins in its refining and chemicals businesses, but topped forecasts and signalled it is committed to buying smaller rival Anadarko Pet...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
A new work believed to be by British street artist Banksy appeared near London's Marble Arch on Friday, where climate change protesters have camped out for days. The work features a child clasping a symbol of Extinction Rebellion, the group behind t...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
HAPSMobile, a joint venture created by Japan’s SoftBank Corp. and California-based AeroVironment, is jumping into the race to provide global broadband access from above, alongside SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb and Telesat. Unlike those four companies, HAPSM...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The largely unexplored Essequibo river snakes through Guyana’s vast rainforest for more than 1,000km – and after kayaking its length, Pip Stewart felt fitter than ever. The 34-year-old was part of the first team to paddle the entirety of South Ameri...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. rose as much as 2 percent on Friday, after reporting first-quarter earnings that beat expectations, helped by continued growth in its advertising and cloud-computing businesses. The stock was on track for its highest cl...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The announcement came after the online retailer Thursday reported first-quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates, demonstrating the company’s focus on cloud-computing, advertising, and other high-margin businesses continues to pay off. Amazo...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Intel also cut its overall annual sales and earnings targets and said this quarter will be worse than analysts estimated, sending shares tumbling in extended trading. Intel shares fell almost 8 percent in pre-market trading on Friday. Asian semicon...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
After the markets shut on Thursday, Glencore said the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating whether the company and its units have violated some provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and/or CFTC Regulations. Glencore added th...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
An 8-year-old girl battling leukemia turned her love of art and design into a way to help other kids also fighting cancer. Mary Andersen, of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) nearly two years ago. D...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The 1.5-tonne rocket hovered 40 meters above the ground before descending back to its concrete launch pad after 30 seconds, to the relief of 26-year-old chief executive Hu Zhenyu and his engineers - one of whom cartwheeled his way to the launch pad i...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Britain will ban Huawei from all core parts of 5G network but give it some access to non-core parts, sources have told Reuters, as it seeks a middle way in a bitter U.S.-China dispute stemming from American allegations that Huawei's equipment could b...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Central Banks Are the World's Newest Climate Change Activists
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
A woman who admits to lying about having cancer and muscular dystrophy explains why she deceives people.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Sony sees an operating profit of 810 billion yen ($7.3 billion) for the year ending March 2020, down from last year’s 894 billion yen and compared with the 843 billion yen average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Operating income came to...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Spears and poisoned blowguns at hand, the Waorani people say they are ready to strike down invaders of their Amazon homelands, just like their forefathers did. The prize is their corner of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, ancestral lands where explorati...