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Baupost Group invested nearly half a billion dollars in semiconductor company Qorvo in the first quarter, a regulatory filing shows.

The Boston-based hedge fund firm invested about $493 million in the first three months of this year, according to the firm's first-quarter 13-F filing.

The firm also invested $299 million in Qualcommn, the filing says. 

Investors must file 13-F documents within 45 days of each quarter's end, so Baupost's positions may have since changed. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Friday that fired FBI Director James Comey had turned down an invitation to talk to the panel next week.

"Yes well, one of the things we did do is we invited Comey to come and testify on Tuesday. He is not going to be testifying on Tuesday, but it is our hope in the not too distant future, that we can find time for him to come in and talk to our committee," Warner told MSNBC in an interview. Читать дальше...

There's a giant crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf that's growing at an alarming rate. Now, scientists think they have the answer, and it points to a much bigger problem.

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David Tepper's hedge fund Appaloosa made a big bet on Bank of America. 

The firm invested $207.2 million in the bank in the first quarter of this year. It was the biggest new bet the fund made in the period.

That info is based on a Bloomberg analysis of a regulatory filing that the firm submitted. The quarterly filing, called a 13F, lists the long stock positions of investment firms. The positions are current as of 45 days prior, so it is possible that Appaloosa has since changed its positions. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is celebrating a student model rocket named after ... him.

Trump asked the students from Victory Christian Center School in Charlotte, North Carolina, why the rocket was named for him.

A student replied, "Simply because it conquers all." Trump then said "they're never going to put that on television," referring to the reporters who were brought into the Oval Office for the visit.

The students are among 100... Читать дальше...

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Aziz Ansari called out Hollywood about its minority representation while promoting the first season of his Emmy-winning show "Master of None."

The Netflix comedy, which debuts its second season on Friday, follows the misadventures of lovelorn actor Dev (Ansari) as he weathers a storm of casting calls, dating, friends, and family.

"We just kind of wrote about our own experiences," "Master of None" cocreator Alan Yang recently told Business Insider. "A lot of that stuff... Читать дальше...

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Stocks slipped on Friday amid underwhelming economic data on consumer prices and retail sales.

All three major indices moved less than 0.2% as stocks stayed mired in a tight trading range. The S&P 500 declined further from record highs reached on Wednesday.

First up, the scoreboard:

• Dow: 20,896.61, -22.81, (-0.11%)
• S&P 500: 2,390.90, -3.54 (-0.15%)
• Nasdaq: 6,121.23, +5.27 (+0.09%)
• US 10-year yield: 2.34%, -0.07
• WTI crude... Читать дальше...

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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's 21st-century car service is valued at more than $60 billion and has the traditional taxi business on its heels.

But despite Uber's popularity, its original business plan is in jeopardy and it faces the unappealing prospect of having to spend massive amounts of cash while simultaneously managing Kalanick's excesses and reforming its company culture.

"Uber has a great strategy and is a great company," Evan Rawley, a Columbia Business School Professor, told Business Insider. Читать дальше...

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Below are the results of a SurveyMonkey poll about spelling mistakes, released on Sunday, May 14.

WeBuyGold

• The startup Naritiv built its business connecting brands to Snapchat influencers
• Now it wants to launch a media brand – WeBuyGold – focused on ephemeral music content
• It's ditching Snapchat for Instagram, where it believes it can more quickly find an audience

Not too long ago, if you were a media entrepreneur planning to go after young, mobile-glued-millennial consumers, your first inclination would be to go to Snapchat. It was where DJ Khaled was famously chronciling his life... Читать дальше...

Narwhals are an endangered species, with most of them residing in remote areas of Canada. Not much is known about the species of whale but new drone footage reveals at least one purpose for their mysterious tusks. 

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer would neither confirm nor deny during Friday's press briefing that President Donald Trump has recorded audio of his private White House conversations, including his January dinner with ousted FBI Director James Comey.

Spicer's comments came as a response to Trump's eye-opening tweet from earlier Friday, which appeared to serve as a threat to Comey.

"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations... Читать дальше...

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (Reuters) - As foreign ministers from countries with territory in the far North celebrated an agreement on fighting climate change this week, one topic seethed below the surface: growing competition for Arctic resources and sea lanes as the ice melts.

Russia, one of eight members of the Arctic Council which includes the United States, Canada and the Nordic countries, has been pouring money and missiles into the Arctic as well as reopening and building bases there. Читать дальше...

Ford

Ford is officially delivering the production versions of the its $400,000 Ford GT supercars. Ever since the GT's jaw-dropping debut at the 2015 Detroit auto show, anticipation for the car has been running high.

Fans saw what the racing version of the GT could do last year, when the car competed in North America and Europe and won the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, repeating history: it was 50 years to the day that the Ford GT40 went 1-2-3 at Le Mans, forging a legend.

That was a spectacular... Читать дальше...

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LAND O'LAKES, Fla. (AP) — A scientific facility where researchers can study how corpses decompose will open next week in the Tampa Bay area with the burial of four donated bodies.

Colloquially known as a "body farm," the five-acre patch of land north of Tampa is the seventh in the nation and the first in Florida's subtropical environment. The oldest and most famous body farm in the U.S. is at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Officials in Florida hope their farm... Читать дальше...

Russian Ministry of Defense

Russia’s military is often seen as a bit backward compared to NATO allies and the U.S. — with dated equipment, low budgets and ships that can’t sail.

But one force Moscow has clearly placed a lot of emphasis on are its special operations units. Like the U.S., the Russian military clearly sees how a small number of these specially-trained and-equipped troops can have an outsized influence on the battlefield — particularly against poorly organized, commanded and equipped terrorist forces like ISIS. Читать дальше...

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday said the US Senate should not vote on a new FBI director until either Congress or the Department of Justice appoints a special prosecutor to lead an investigation into President Donald Trump's potential ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Speaking at the Common Good forum in New York City, Gillibrand argued that Trump has "tried to undermine the basic institutions of our democracy," by firing former FBI Director James Comey earlier this week... Читать дальше...

It's important to remember that money doesn't solve life's problems. In fact, many lottery winners' lives took a turn for the worse, and they also managed to lose all the money.

It's not an easy gig to play Steve Jobs. The man was certainly a complex human, often tough in relationships while capable of thinking outside-the-box when it came to design, product and image. It would be daunting to play the former Apple head honcho, and Michael Fassbender knew it, even before he started having to get into costume for the gig. He recently revealed that he was so apprehensive of taking the lead in Steve Jobs that he considered breaking his arm to get out of the gig, and that wasn't even the only time he tried to quit. Читать дальше...

The 2017 NBA playoffs are once again showing just how predictable an NBA season can be.

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - While Jared Kushner's family company apologized this week for mentioning the White House adviser's name when wooing Chinese investors to fund a New Jersey real estate project, one Chinese immigration agency was touting its role in the deal.

For Beijing-based Qiaowai, which organized the roadshow for Kushner Companies' One Journal Square project, the pitch was a chance to highlight its U.S. political connections. Shortly into the roadshow, the company... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two scientists who serve on an independent board reviewing Environmental Protection Agency research resigned on Friday to protest what they see as a weakening of scientific integrity of the agency.

Carlos Martin and Peter Meyer, scientists who served on a subcommittee of the Board of Scientific Counselors, said they were alarmed by an agency decision last Friday not to renew the contracts for two executive committee members of the... Читать дальше...