After bowing to a blockbuster $352 million global opening, Disney's live-action fairy tale remake Beauty and the Beast continues to devour the box office. It's stunning first-week performance puts it on pace to reach $500 million as it enters it's second weekend, all but assuring a $1+ billion cume.
This week’s Apple Loop includes a new look at the iPhone 8 design, facial recognition without Touch ID, Apple’s augmented reality vision, the new iPhones released this week, more product updates, Apple ignoring the MacBook, research centres opening in China, and Apple’s purchase of Workflow.
Deep learning was a huge focus of Google’s annual cloud conference, from its hosted AI platform to the company’s myriad pre-built “just works right out of the box” services - the world’s most advanced AI systems are now just an API call away
This week’s Android Circuit looks at the new dates for the Galaxy S8, the potential cost of Samsung’s handset, details on the bigger Pixel 2, Apple still winning against Android tablets, the release of Android O, Google’s security report for 2016, and Super Mario Run arrives on Android.
It's Taxes from A to Z. H is for harvesting losses.
It's past time we got rid of the five obnoxious and intrusive job interview questions on our list -- and started asking more useful and human questions instead! Here are the five questions to ditch and five replacements
With Snap Inc. having gained huge attention in the run up to its IPO and afterwards, S&P Global Market Intelligence has crunched data analysing its credit score and profile, revealing that Snap is "more risky" than the median level of risk in the application software industry, which is at ‘b+’.
When Mariatu Turay was homeless after fleeing war-torn Sierra Leone with her mother at the age of 16, she fell back on the hair braiding skill she had learned at school where all the girls had to plait their hair. Now she is a leading African designer on the London fashion scene.
This does not have to mean the end of health care reform. The ACA was passed in 2010 after months of infighting among Democrats, with six other bills being approved by committees before a different bill was eventually passed. Republicans should try again.
President Trump, who wants to relieve regulations on the auto industry, could roll back federal fuel economy laws while California is pushing ahead with its own pollution mandates. So much for the idea of one national standard.
Postmates is growing quickly, but remains unprofitable.
Both near term company-specific and economic risks have punished the stock prices of companies like UPS and FedEx recently. However, freight-shipping-courier may benefit from industry-wide changes over the longer term.
John McCormick takes the vehicle off-road in Utah.
Emerging markets have a solid long-term outlook as low valuations, improved fundamentals and better earnings will boost opportunities. However, recent moves in commodity prices, interest rates and inflation have shuffled the deck and there will be definite winners and losers in EM in coming months.
When it comes to stock valuations, strong brand value like in Apple or Disney, are important. Compare them to the recent experiences of Samsung, Chipotle and Wells Fargo. Amazon's brand may be in peril because of sketchy third party sellers offering deals that seem too good to be true.
Crowdfunding and PR are a match made in heaven, as long as you strategize your timing and approach to the media well.
Hackers claim they have obtained iCloud and me.com email addresses and passwords and will wipe people's phones unless Apple pays a ransom by April 7. Here's how to protect your data.
The Women's March and other large-scale protests since Trump's election have caused a dramatic spike in art-supply sales around the country. Industry experts expect it to last.
According to the latest AAII Sentiment Survey, 60% of respondents said that the latest rate hikes have very little impact on their outlook and portfolio decisions.
The chairman of China’s leading dairy company, Yang Kai, may need an extra glass of milk for his sleep tonight. His fortune dropped by $2.5 billion as Huishan Dairy stock plunged by 85% in Hong Kong before trading was suspended Friday.
What took place last week in the credit card and payment industries