Новости за 09.02.2017

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DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tesla said on Wednesday it will shut down production at its California assembly plant for a week this month to prepare for production of its high-volume Model 3 sedan, moving the company closer to meeting its target to start production in July.

Tesla said the "brief, planned" pause would allow the company to add capacity to the existing paint shop to prepare it for the Model 3, and other general maintenance.

"This... Читать дальше...

Hollis Johnson

Something funny is happening in the world of cutting-edge tech.

On Wednesday, Best Buy announced that it would be closing 200 out of its 500 in-store demo locations for the Facebook's Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, apparently because of low interest. 

At the same time, Google unveiled the Android Wear 2.0 operating system for smartwatches — a release that my colleague Steve Kovach characterizes as a too-little-too-late effort to revitalize a category of devices that's slowly dying due to... Читать дальше...

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Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment arm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, has invested $493,000 into an experiment giving people in Kenya free money.

The experiment, put on by the charity GiveDirectly, tests an up-and-coming solution to poverty known as basic income. People under basic income receive a set amount of money on a regular basis to cover expenses like rent, food, and clothing.

GiveDirectly is running a small pilot in just a few Kenyan villages at present... Читать дальше...

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A new Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, should have no impact on stock markets – whether here in Asia or in the U.S. Stock markets don’t know the month – or the zodiac year, of course. But it’s a fact that some years of the Chinese zodiac are better than others for stock markets. And the Year of the Rooster – which just started last week – is one of them.

Each year on the Chinese lunar calendar is named after one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac cycle. Читать дальше...

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Moscow is reportedly preparing to send a new ambassador to Washington, and if history is any guide, he might end up being a great fit for the city’s new policy realities.  

According to a reports from several Russian news outlets on Monday, the Kremlin is considering promoting Anatoly Antonov, a hardliner who is currently Moscow’s deputy foreign minister, to the post.

Antonov is a well-known figure among US diplomatic and foreign policy hands, several of whom characterized him as a tough... Читать дальше...

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Stephen Curry made arguably his strongest political statements to date on Wednesday when he mocked both President Donald Trump and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank's praise of Trump.

Plank was highly complimentary of Trump in an interview on Tuesday with CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report," saying "to have such a pro-business president is something that is a real asset for the country."

That didn't seem to sit well with Curry, one of Under Armour's top athletes. Читать дальше...

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When Stanford grads Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt set out to launch their trading app Robinhood, they were aiming to provide a platform that was more accessible for beginner investors than traditional brokerage firms.

Robinhood doesn't charge a brokerage fee when a user buys or sells a stock. And it doesn't require a minimum deposit to open an account.

The company's low cost and easy-to-use platform - users can start trading within minutes of opening an account - has cemented its popularity among millennials. Читать дальше...

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When President Trump meets with the top CEOs in the US aviation industry on Thursday, one issue will surely be a divisive force in the room: what to do about Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways.

Over the past 15 years, the trio of cash-rich Middle Eastern carriers or ME3 have barnstormed their way to the forefront of the global airline market.

Most recently, their expansion has brought them into direct competition with the US trio of American, Delta, and United Airlines. Читать дальше...

Handy Abovergleich

On Intel's most recent earnings call, CFO Robert Swan provided some insight into the company's gross profit margin guidance for the full year of 2017.

Intel guided to full-year gross profit margin of 62% on a GAAP basis for 2017 -- a 110 basis point (1.1%) improvement from the 60.9% gross profit margin that it reported for 2016.

Interestingly, Intel tells investors to expect gross profit margin of 62% in the first quarter of 2017, which suggests that the... Читать дальше...

Mars Incorporated

When Microsoft announced its last quarterly earnings in late January, CEO Satya Nadella took the time to shout out one customer in particular: Mars Incorporated, the secretive $35 billion company behind Twix, M&Ms, Life Savers, and 57 more popular brands.

"An early adopter of Office 365, Mars is using Office and Windows 10 to transform how its 80,000-strong global workforce collaborates while staying secure," Nadella said on a conference call with reporters, analysts, and investors. Читать дальше...

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs has just named Eric Lane as co-chairman of the firm's partnership committee.

Lane coheads the investment-management division — a business that has been posting strong growth — with Tim O'Neill. Pablo Salame, cohead of the securities division at Goldman, is the other co-chairman.  

Lane joined the bank back in 1996, making partner in 2002 while still in his late 20s, making him one of the firm's youngest ever partners. He was COO of the investment-management... Читать дальше...

"Minecraft" is this generation's Super Mario. It's an international phenomenon. Unless you've been living on the moon, you probably already know these things.

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Neil Gorsuch, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge nominated by President Donald Trump to the vacant Supreme Court seat last week, said Wednesday he was "disheartened" by the president attempting to delegitimize a federal judge.

Gorsuch made the comment during a meeting with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, as he seeks Senate confirmation. Blumenthal told reporters of Gorsuch's remarks, which were confirmed to Business Insider by a spokesperson for the Supreme Court nomination team. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US forces killed 11 al Qaeda operatives in two airstrikes near Idlib, Syria, this month, including a member with links to the late Osama bin Laden and other top leaders of the group, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

It said a Feb. 4 strike killed Abu Hani al-Masri, who it said oversaw the creation and operation of many al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, where he "recruited, indoctrinated, trained and equipped... Читать дальше...

Hollis Johnson

Doritos are one of the most successful snack foods ever, with a market-leading $1.5 billion in annual sales in the US.

What makes them so good? Food scientist Steven Witherly explained "the perfect snack food" at length in his book, "Why Humans Like Junk Food."

We break down the highlights — with mouthwatering glamour shots — below.

INTOXICATING FLAVOR. That red powder is high in salt and sugar — two major pleasure solutes — and loaded with flavor-boosters like MSG... Читать дальше...

It took five months, but Apple is finally ready to ship the last of its new batch of wireless headphones. The company on Tuesday announced that BeatsX, the neckband-style earphones from its Beats subsidiary, will go on sale and join the fully wireless AirPods, over-ear Solo 3 Wireless, and exercise-focused Powerbeats3 Wireless by the end of the week.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook gave the company's most full-throated condemnation of President Trump's recent immigration order while he was overseas, in Scotland.

“We don’t support the immigration ban and we have been very public about it,” Cook said at a ceremony at the University of Glasgow, where he was receiving an honorary degree.

"Our simple view is that Apple would not exist without immigration, so this is a huge issue for us. So what do we do? We voice our opinion and stand up - we don’t sit in silence," Cook said... Читать дальше...

Institutional Investor

Only Bill Gross can go from a discussion of happiness to the causes of financial repression in a couple of paragraphs. In his February Investment Outlook, Gross riffs on what makes a person happy and whether higher goals, such as service to others, should really be the objective. The legendary bond manager writes that he is particularly captivated by a song line from the quirky 1960s folk singer Donovan: "Happiness runs in a circular motion ... happiness runs ...... Читать дальше...

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, launched in September 2016 and run by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, set out with the ambitious goal "to cure, prevent or manage all disease during our children’s lifetime."

As part of the $3 billion initiative, the organization created an independent nonprofit Biohub, which on Wednesday said it committed $50 million to 47 scientists, technologists, and engineers working at UCSF, Stanford, and UC-Berkeley. Читать дальше...

On February 7, 2017 a tornado hit NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Employees shot video of the tornado and its aftermath.

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President Donald Trump caught some heat on Wednesday when he tweeted that his daughter, Ivanka, was being "treated so unfairly" by retailing giant Nordstrom, which dropped her fashion brand from its line of products.

 "She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing!" he continued. "Terrible!"

But Trump is not the first president to take shots in defense of a daughter.

A 1950 letter from President Harry Truman to a Washington Post music... Читать дальше...

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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich showed his support for President Donald Trump's tax and regulatory policies in a company-wide email, following a meeting at the White House with the President on Wednesday.

In the email, which was made public by Intel, Krzanich cited the company's "announcement" that it would finish construction on a $7 billion semiconductor factory in Arizona that Intel began building six years ago. Krzanich said the plant was an "investment in our own future,"... Читать дальше...

Kristin Carlson

If your résumé and cover letter are a mess, then you're probably not going to advance too far in the hiring process.

Business Insider recently spoke with Yelp senior sales recruiter Kristin Carlson about the $3 billion company's hiring process. She's hired a total of 253 employees during her time at Yelp.

"Our recruiters take time to review every single résumé and to read all cover letters," she says. "Both are the first very important part of the process and... Читать дальше...

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US Customs and Border Patrol agents in Pittsburgh made an unusual find on Monday, when a shipment marked as "general products" was found to be concealing over 100 pounds of an stimulant found in southern Arabia and East Africa.

A package of wigs and hair-extension products from Kenya and destined for an address in Mckees, Pennsylvania, arrived in the US on Friday.

US customs agents examined the package on Monday, discovering about 110 pounds of dried khat with an estimated value of up to $30,000. Читать дальше...