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Man Utd Under-21s win Premier League title

Goal.com 

Warren Joyce's side have claimed the title with two games to spare after victory at White Hart Lane thanks to a 93rd minute winner from Guillermo Varela in a five-goal thriller

30 dead, hundreds wounded as Taliban attack rattles Kabul

Zee News (zeenews.india.com) 

Thirty people were killed and hundreds wounded when a Taliban truck bomb tore through central Kabul and a fierce firefight broke out Tuesday, one week after the insurgents launched their annual spring offensive.

Airbnb adds new recommendations features

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb is adding recommendations to its online accommodations service, building on its knowledge of travelers' preferences, coupled with tips from locals.

Airbnb adds new recommendations features

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb is adding recommendations to its online accommodations service, building on its knowledge of travelers' preferences, coupled with tips from locals. The company, which lets out-of-town visitors find people renting out homes and rooms, says it wants to help travelers get off the beaten path by showing alternatives to well-known, often-crowded, attractions.

Airbnb adds new recommendations features

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb is adding recommendations to its online accommodations service, building on its knowledge of travelers' preferences, coupled with tips from locals. The company, which lets out-of-town visitors find people renting out homes and rooms, says it wants to help travelers get off the beaten path by showing alternatives to well-known, often-crowded, attractions.

The Verizon Strikers’ Shrinking World

The New Yorker 

A picket line is to a Democrat what a revival meeting is to an evangelical, so when Verizon workers went on strike last week, in one of the biggest labor actions in a decade, both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton made sure to come out for the thirty-nine thousand workers represented by the union.

Trump campaign plane flying with expired registration

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

The Republican presidential candidate's airplane lost its registered status in January after failure to pay a $5 fee to the FAA. The aircraft in violation is not Trump's Boeing 757, the renovated commercial jet that the billionaire sometimes uses as a backdrop for his rallies. If the FAA learns that a registration has expired by the plane is still being flown, the agency typically sends a warning letter to the owner, according to aircraft operators who asked not to be named because they didn't want to be associated with the Trump case.



Trump campaign plane flying with expired registration

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The Republican presidential candidate's airplane lost its registered status in January after failure to pay a $5 fee to the FAA. The aircraft in violation is not Trump's Boeing 757, the renovated commercial jet that the billionaire sometimes uses as a backdrop for his rallies. If the FAA learns that a registration has expired by the plane is still being flown, the agency typically sends a warning letter to the owner, according to aircraft operators who asked not to be named because they didn't want to be associated with the Trump case.

RANKED: The 10 highest-grossing animated movies of all time

BusinessInsider.com 

DreamWorks

Feature-length animated films have evolved not only in technology and execution, but in popularity.

Since the 1990s, we've seen an explosion of animated blockbusters that take top slots at the year's box office, from "Toy Story 3" to "Frozen." One big example of that is an all-time great that's celebrating its birthday.

DreamWorks' "Shrek," which turns 15 this week, proved that animated movies didn't have to play by the Disney rules of catering to just kids to be a box-office hit. Читать дальше...

Dancing to the top of television ratings

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — A night of Disney tunes led ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" to the largest audience of its current season and to the top of the television rankings.

Dancing to the top of television ratings

JournalStar.com 

NEW YORK (AP) — A night of Disney tunes led ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" to the largest audience of its current season and to the top of the television rankings.

Dancing to the top of television ratings

TheRepublic.com 

NEW YORK - A night of Disney tunes led ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" to the largest audience of its current season and to the top of the television rankings.

Visa: new technology for chip cards to speed checkout times

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

Visa is upgrading its software to process chip-embedded credit and debit cards to function faster — addressing a source of grumbling from businesses and customers who are often forced to wait for transactions to go through. Though the wait can be just seconds, in today's economy of swipes and scans, the cards have been a nuisance for high traffic retailers, for example, a coffee shop during the morning rush. "While chip cards have been adopted and generally accepted by customers, there have been... Читать дальше...

Yahoo's core business keeps shrinking (YHOO)

BusinessInsider.com 

Thomson Reuters

Yahoo just reported its first-quarter earnings after the bell today.

The results slightly beat expectations and the stock is trading roughly flat in after hours.

Here are the most important numbers:

  • EPS: $0.08 per share vs. $0.07 per share (non-GAAP)
  • Revenue: $1.09 billion vs. $1.08 billion (down 11% year-over-year)
  • Revenue ex-TAC: $859.4 million vs $846.3 millioin (down 18% year-over-year)

"I'm pleased that we delivered Q1 results in line with our expectations.

Illinois drivers may soon have to pay per mile

The Globe and Mail 

Illinois needs to find $43 billion over the next 10 years to fix crumbling roads and bridges, but more fuel-efficient cars are decreasing the amount of revenue going into the state’s gas tax

Chargers kicking off signature drive for stadium ballot initiative on Saturday

NBCSports.com 

The Chargers need to get nearly 67,000 signatures from registered voters in San Diego in order to put an initiative for public funding of a new stadium on the ballot this November. They will kick off the process of getting those signatures this weekend. The team announced Tuesday that their Citizens’ Initiative campaign to provide…





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