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League of Legends for mobile and consoles is coming in 2020
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2019 03:55
League of Legends is heading to mobile and console in 2020. League of Legends: Wild Rift is an adaptation of the PC experience.
Firm behind Panama Papers sues Netflix for libel over 'The Laundromat'
New York Post - 16 Oct 2019 20:57
The partners of the law firm caught in the middle of the Panama Papers are suing Netflix over its new movie "The Laundromat," saying it wrongly portrays them as villains in the global tax evasion scandal. In a federal su...
It took me 96 hours to ride an Amtrak train from coast to coast. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Business Insider - 16 Oct 2019 23:36
Graham Rapier / Business Insider Amtrak is easily the slowest way to travel from coast to coast, but I did it anyway. The journey was delayed by more than 24 hours thanks to a missed connection in Chicago. Still, the sig...
Roger Federer Confirms He Will Play The French Open In 2020
Forbes - 16 Oct 2019 16:44
Roger Federer's 2020 spring and summer may be one of his busiest yet
Volvo Cars aims to be climate neutral by 2040
Reuters - 16 Oct 2019 13:38
Volvo Cars, owned by China's Geely Holding, is targeting a 40% reduction in the carbon footprint of each car it manufactures by 2025 as it bids to become fully climate neutral by 2040, it said in a statement on Wednesday...
Asian shares tick up, sterling off five-month peak as crunch Brexit talks eyed
Reuters - 16 Oct 2019 04:46
Asian shares inched higher while sterling came off five-month highs in volatile trade on Wednesday as investors looked to whether Britain can secure a deal to avoid a disorderly exit from the European Union.
A New Standard That Makes Music Easier To Find
Forbes - 16 Oct 2019 04:34
The music industry is embracing a new standard called MEAD (Media Enrichment And Description) for communicating metadata--information about music that will make it easier to describe and find.
Goldman Sachs says it lost $80M on WeWork investment
New York Post - 16 Oct 2019 03:58
Goldman Sachs said it lost $80 million on its investment in WeWork, helping fuel a 26 percent profit drop at the Wall Street giant. The collapse of WeWork's parent company's initial public offering last month weighed hea...
Lingerie company sues Hollywood actor for allegedly posing as talent scout
New York Post - 16 Oct 2019 01:49
A Hollywood actor has been posing as a lingerie company's talent scout as part of a lurid scheme to convince women to send him nudie photos, according to an explosive lawsuit by the company. Daniel Giovanni Watson, who a...
Sensor Tower: Lineage franchise bags over $4 billion on mobile
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2019 01:32
Lineage is a powerhouse in Asia-Pacific mobile markets, with Lineage M and Lineage 2: Revolution bringing in more than an estimated $4 billion since 2016 on iOS and Android.
Workday Casts a Large Cloud
Wall Street Journal - 16 Oct 2019 21:00
Comments from the normally cautious cloud company spark more worry about growth for the expensive sector
Turkey's Halkbank shares fall 7% following U.S. charges
Reuters - 16 Oct 2019 09:10
Shares of Turkey's state-owned Halkbank fell more than 7% at the opening of trade on Wednesday after U.S. prosecutors charged the bank with taking part in a scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Google, Reddit defend tech legal protections ahead of Congress hearing
Reuters - 16 Oct 2019 01:39
A 23-year-old law giving technology companies legal protection from lawsuits over user-generated content remains critical to the internet's future, Alphabet Inc's Google unit and social media site Reddit Inc said in test...
Report: Brokers are erasing customer complaints from popular investor website
Market Watch - 16 Oct 2019 19:34
Brokers have been asking for their complaint records on BrokerCheck to be wiped clean at soaring rates.
Pensando Systems raises $145 million for custom hardware that processes data at the edge
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2019 17:00
Networking startup Pensando Systems has emerged from stealth with over $145 million for its custom software-defined edge services platform.
Noah Centineo shaved off his hair, and fans are heartbroken
Business Insider - 16 Oct 2019 16:36
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" star Noah Centineo shaved off his curly hair, and fans are devastated. The new look was revealed in photos and videos that the 23-year-old actor shared on his...
Farm, renewable fuel groups angered by EPA plan to boost ethanol, biodiesel market
USA Today - 16 Oct 2019 16:23TikTok hired former US lawmakers to review its content policies after facing backlash and accusations of censorship
Business Insider - 16 Oct 2019 16:12
TikTok is a popular short-form video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, the highest-valued private company in the world. Internal documents viewed by The Guardian showed that the company had censored content that co...
Huawei unveils new 5G antennae ahead of China ramp
Reuters - 16 Oct 2019 14:22
Huawei Technologies on Wednesday launched a new generation of 5G mobile antennae, anticipating an acceleration in the pace of network upgrades led by the three operators in its vast Chinese home market.
With Smirnoff 'On Fire,' Diageo Looks to Launch Even More Beverage Brands
AdWeek - 16 Oct 2019 14:00
Nuno Teles, president of Diageo Beer Co., sees "unlimited" potential for growth of the company's beer and spirits brands. Teles says Guinness, first brewed in 1759, is up double digits while Smirnoff, including its line ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is backing Bernie Sanders in 2020, is the most coveted 2020 endorsement besides former presidents
Business Insider - 16 Oct 2019 06:15
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York will be endorsingSen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday, October 19, The Washington Post reported. Self-reported Democratic primary voters polled by Insider say they value prominent pro...
3 Connected Ways To Differentiate Your Startup App Idea From The Competition
Forbes - 16 Oct 2019 02:19
Differentiating a product by building more features or a better version of competitors' features isn't going to separate your startup from the rest. Here are 3 ways to differentiate your startup app idea from the competi...