Alibaba plans $15B Hong Kong listing in late November: RTR
Alibaba is looking to list in Hong Kong in late November, according to Reuters. Yahoo Finance's Akiko Fujita and Dan Roberts discuss.
Alibaba is looking to list in Hong Kong in late November, according to Reuters. Yahoo Finance's Akiko Fujita and Dan Roberts discuss.
A senior Biden administration official called it ‘rich‘ that Israel bristled at the leak when Israeli officials first revealed the news.
Miss USA Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA UmaSofia Srivastava resigned this week, the latest controversy for a tradition that has long faced criticism.
RFK Jr. said he had a brain parasite and suffered cognitive issues
The Biden administration plans to propose a new rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the asylum claims process for some migrants — a potential prelude to broader actions from President Joe Biden later this year that would impose a bigger crackdown at the border. It's meant to affect migrants with criminal records or those who would otherwise be eventually deemed ineligible for asylum in the United States. Under current law, a migrant who arrives at the border and undergoes an initial screening for “credible fear” — one criterion for asylum — is allowed to continue with the process even if they have a criminal background or would pose a security risk.
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The United States has revoked some export licenses that allowed companies such as US chip firm Qualcomm to supply Chinese tech giant Huawei, the Commerce Department confirmed on Wednesday.Qualcomm confirmed Wednesday that the Commerce Department "revoked certain export licenses for Huawei in our industry, including one of our licenses."
Displaced Gazan Marwan al-Masri, sheltering in Rafah, said on Wednesday "life has completely ceased" since Israeli tanks and troops entered the city's east, sending desperate Palestinians fleeing north in the besieged territory."Life has completely ceased in the downtown area of Rafah", said 35-year-old Masri, who has been displaced from northern Gaza.
One of the internet’s most popular adult content creators says PayPal fined her more than $90,000 after she went viral for selling a nontraditional personal item: water she had bathed in.
President Joe Biden visited crucial US battleground state Wisconsin Wednesday and announced a $3.3 billion artificial intelligence datacenter -- drawing contrasts with rival Donald Trump, whose pledged mega-project at the same location fizzled.Microsoft will build a new AI datacenter built right where Trump, Biden's predecessor and likely rival again in November's presidential election, had vowed with great fanfare to build a giant factory for Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn.
Widespread recent power outages in Mexico were caused by unseasonably hot weather, the country's president said on Wednesday, assuring consumers that the national grid has sufficient generating capacity going forward. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular government press conference that his government will also coordinate with private power producers, responsible for about half of Mexico's electricity generation. Around 20 of Mexico's 32 states were affected by Tuesday's rolling power outages, according to data from grid operator CENACE analyzed by Reuters.
A San Francisco mom is asking for accountability after a man allegedly yelled racist anti-Asian remarks and pulled out what appeared to be a taser on a bus that her son was riding.
In halting a shipment of thousands of bombs, President Joe Biden has sent his most serious signal yet both to Israel and his domestic critics, although it remains doubtful he can fundamentally alter the course of the war in Gaza.She doubted the halt would have "an immediate operational impact" but said it sent a message to Israel not to drop 2,000-pound bombs, as it already has in the war.
Shares of the Austin, Texas-based company, which offers dating apps such as Bumble, Badoo, and Fruitz, rose more than 4% in aftermarket trading. Last week, Bumble unveiled its anticipated app refresh, with a new logo, a move announced in February, that comes with new features including allowing women to set a question that their potential match could respond to. Bumble expects second-quarter revenue between $269 million and $275 million, compared with analysts' average estimate of $278.6 million, according to LSEG data.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election introduced a Donald Trump-backed voting bill Wednesday.
While techs have mainly delivered on high earnings expectations, the focus is now on whether other sectors can match up.
(Reuters) -Vacation rental company Airbnb reported a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday but forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street expectations, sending shares of the company down 7% after the bell. Accommodation companies in the first quarter have seen the demand for travel in regions outside of North America boost earnings as travel accelerates in Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Airbnb's first-quarter revenue rose 18% year-over-year to $2.14 billion.
A Texas man is petitioning a court to authorize an obscure legal action to find out who allegedly helped his former partner obtain an out-of-state abortion, setting up the latest test of the reach of statewide abortion bans. As some states work to expand abortion access and others impose more limits following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. Wade, antiabortion activists have begun testing the boundaries of statewide bans in court. Abortion advocates call these legal actions a scare tactic, and stress that crossing state lines to obtain an abortion remains legal.
President Joe Biden will travel to Racine, Wisconsin, to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence data center.
(Reuters) -Arm Holdings gave a full-year revenue forecast on Wednesday that missed the expectations of investors who had sent the chip designer's shares soaring last September following its IPO on optimism around AI. Shares of Arm fell about 7% in extended trading after the report. For the current fiscal first quarter, Arm forecast revenue in a range between $875 million and $925 million, with a midpoint of $900 million, compared with an average analyst estimate of $857.5 million, according to LSEG data.
In sometimes violent confrontations, police broke up a protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam Wednesday in a second straight day of unrest over the war in Gaza. After police ended a blockade on university grounds, hundreds of demonstrators moved to a nearby square to continue protesting late into the evening, demanding an end to the war. It was unclear if and how many people were injured during the scuffles and how many protesters were detained by police.