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Apple

Apple's iPad business is growing again.

After years of declining sales, the iPad business saw a boost last quarter, according to Apple's Q3 earnings report.

Apple sold 11.4 million iPads in the quarter, up from 9.95 million in the year-ago quarter. (That's 14% growth in unit sales.)

That could be due to the new 10.5-inch iPad Pro, which launched last month to glowing reviews. Apple also released a new version of the 9.7-inch iPad, which starts at a much lower price, $329. Читать дальше...

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Uber reportedly addressed rumors that Travis Kalanick will return as CEO of the ride-hailing giant during an Tuesday all-hands meeting.

General counsel Salle Yoo told employees that the company is "looking forward" in its search for CEO — an apparent attempt to quiet rumors that Kalanick will stage a comeback, BuzzFeed News reported.

Uber did not immediately return Business Insider's request for comment.

Kalanick has been angling to return to Uber, a plan... Читать дальше...

Rio Tinto posted underlying earnings for the half year of $US3.94 billion ($A4.94 billion) and decided to give back $US3 billion ($A3.7 billion) to shareholders.

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Apple's mobile wallet, Apple Pay, has launched its largest promotional campaign in China since entering the market over a year-and-a-half ago, according to the South China Morning Post.

The promotion, which is expected to run from July 18 to July 24, offers shoppers up to 50% off their purchases or up to 50 times the points usually rewarded by their... Читать дальше...

Alinea is the best restaurant in the country, and the dining experience is unlike anything you have had before. Chef Grant Achatz serves up some very unusual dishes, and one of the most popular is an edible helium balloon. Customers are served the balloons and encouraged to suck in the helium before eating it.  We spoke with Chef Achatz about his balloons, watched how they were made, and got to try one out. 

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration says it will waive environmental reviews and other laws to replace a stretch of border wall in San Diego, moving to make good on one of the president's signature campaign pledges.

Critics including the Center for Biological Diversity swiftly criticized the move as overreach and a threat to the environment.

The Department of Homeland Security said it will publish in "the coming days" in the Federal Register... Читать дальше...

• California, Idaho, and Arizona joined a growing number of states saying Obamacare premiums could shoot up unless President Trump guarantees important cost sharing reduction (CSR) payments.
• Trump has threatened to yank these payments to get Democrats to the negotiating table on healthcare.
• These payments help offset costs for insurers to provide low out-of-pocket costs for poorer Americans. If they are pulled, insurers in those three states would be forced to jack up premiums in 2018 to offset the loss in funding. Читать дальше...

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday denied that President Donald Trump knew about a retracted Fox News story that floated conspiracy theories about a slain Democratic National Committee staffer.

Former Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler has sued the network over the story, alleging that it, along with a well-connected Trump-backer, knowingly pushed a thinly-sourced conspiracy theory about Rich's death to deflect from growing concerns about Trump's potential ties to Russia. Читать дальше...

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The INSIDER Summary:

• McDonald's offers plenty of menu items that are served only at the chain's international locations.
• The items below are all not available in the US.
• Examples include the tamago burger in Japan, twisty pasta in China, and passion fruit and cream cheese pie in Russia.
• There's also the Cheddar McMelt in Brazil, the Jalapeño chicken triple burger in South Africa, and the Chicken McDo with McSpaghetti in the Philippines. Читать дальше...

For the last year, I have been looking for what we classify as a wave (3) to strike the 2500SPX region. And, now, we are getting quite close.

The global manufacturing sector is looking pretty good in mid-2017, especially in Europe.

Australian shares closed lower.

Today’s scoreboard:

• ASX 200: 5,744.20 -28.17 -0.49%
• All Ordinaries: 5,794.50 -26.13 -0.45%
• AUD/USD: 0.7964 -0.0005 -0.06%

The local market slipped after two days of gaining ground, with financial stocks and miners leading the way down.

Westpac was down almost 1% to $31.76 and BHP 1.5% to $25.75.

Medical device maker ResMed dropped 5.7% to $9.105 after reporting a 7%... Читать дальше...

Australian building approvals rebounded strongly in June, soaring 10.9% having fallen 5.4% in May.

A woman in her 50s, dressed neatly in a cardigan and dress, has a look on her face familiar to all worried mothers. She's just wandered up to the temporary kitchen in Sydney's Martin Place feeding dozens of people camped nightly in one of the city's prime business locations.

US Navy

A US Navy sailor has presumably gone missing from the USS Stetham somewhere in the waters of the South China Sea, Defense News reported Tuesday.

The guided-missile destroyer reported a man overboard at around 9 a.m. local time, according to Military.com. US and Japanese ships are currently assisting in the search-and-rescue effort.

The search for a missing sailor is the third for the Navy since June. A sailor fell from the USS Normandy on June 6 and was later presumed dead after an extensive search. Читать дальше...

After Aaron Judge obliterated the baseballs at Marlins Park during the Home Run Derby, there were concerns about a post-All-Star-break letdown, but while the home run production has remained steady, there is a bigger concern — his strikeouts are way up.

Facebook

• Facebook filed documents with FCC for a Bluetooth LE module

• The documents were filed under FCL Inc, the name of the subsidiary that Facebook uses for drone-related technologies, such as its Aquila drone

• Filing comes as Facebook reportedly developing smart speaker, other hardware

Facebook has designed a low-energy Bluetooth module to be used in a still-unspecified hardware device. 

The Bluetooth transmitter is attached to a printer circuit board... Читать дальше...

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During his time in the White House, President George W. Bush was known for his love of giving other people nicknames — "Pootie Poot" (Russian President Vladimir Putin), "Bushie," (First Lady Laura Bush) and "The Cobra" (New York Times journalist Maureen Dowd) are just some of the monikers that the one-time Republican president bestowed on people in his work circles.

Here are the hilarious (and often unbelievably awkward) nicknames Bush gave to the various politicians, journalists, and world leaders of the early 2000s. Читать дальше...

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If you've been to work — well, ever — or tried generally to keep up with everyday responsibilities  lately, you know two things.

First, the number of things you now need to remember to get through the day (let alone be wildly successful) is apparently higher than the number of snowflakes in Frosty.

Second, a host of factors — for instance, lack of time, cost, poor cooking knowledge — have made it pretty hard to maintain a healthy diet. Luckily for you, there's a compound... Читать дальше...

St. Louis Police Department via Associated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white former St. Louis police officer charged with killing a black man "executed" him after a car chase, then planted a gun in the slain drug suspect's vehicle as an excuse for opening fire, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.

But an attorney for the officer denied the prosecutor's allegations during opening statements in the first-degree murder trial for Jason Stockley, saying the officer was protecting himself against an armed and dangerous felon. Читать дальше...

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Stocks climbed toward record highs as investors digested corporate earnings results.

The S&P 500 added 0.2%, while the Dow increased 0.3% and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. Traders are anxiously awaiting the next batch of jobs data, with the monthly non-farm payroll due Friday morning.

First up, the scoreboard:

• Dow: 21,963.92, +72.80, (+0.33%)
• S&P 500: 2,476.35, +6.05, (+0.24%)
• Nasdaq: 6,362.94, +14.81, (+0.23%)
• US 10-year yield... Читать дальше...

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On Thursday Stephen Curry will tee off in his first professional golf tournament, entering the field of the Web.com Tour's Ellie Mae Classic with the help of a sponsor's exemption.

Curry is known to be an avid golf fan and is the NBA's best golfer, but going up against actual professionals is a bit different than hitting the course with a few friends for a Saturday morning foursome. Even if he plays a spectacular round, it's tough to imagine him keeping pace... Читать дальше...

LinkedIn

Fahmi Quadir, a 26-year-old who trained under well-known short seller Marc Cohodes, is setting out to raise $200 million for her own recently-formed hedge fund, Safkhet Capital.

In an interview with Bloomberg’s Simone Foxman, Quadir said she has “seen the tail end of a bull market,” and isn’t phased. She plans to watch for frauds or accounting vulnerabilities that could make a stock tank more than 60%, and bet against it.

Short sellers have had few opportunities for success in the markets recently. Читать дальше...

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President Donald Trump acted "as any father would" in dictating the initial misleading statement that Donald Trump Jr. used when confronted by The New York Times earlier this month about his June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday.

Sanders' statement followed a bombshell Washington Post report on Monday that outlined how Trump "personally dictated" the initial misleading statement to the Times,... Читать дальше...

Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon launched the music-streaming service in 2005 out of an apartment in Sweden, launching in Europe a year later. The company became available in the US four years later and quickly became popular for features like Discover Weekly playlists and New Music Fridays. In spring 2011, Spotify announced it had reached 1 million paid subscribers.