Новости за 04.07.2017

Samsung is developing a voice-activated speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, joining a proliferating arms race in tabletop devices against the likes of Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft.

Russia is likely to leak hacked government information in an attempt to influence Germany’s election, top security officials said, as they pointed to multiple attempts to steal confidential documents in recent months.

Qatar Petroleum, the world’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas, said it plans to increase natural-gas output by 30% over the next seven years, as the small emirate faces a diplomatic crisis with its Persian Gulf neighbors.

A possible J.P. Morgan bid for U.K. firm Worldpay comes as the payments sector has been a hive of activity in recent years and is seen as ripe for consolidation.

U.S.-backed Syrian forces have breached the wall around Raqqa’s Old City, the U.S. military said, marking a major advance in the battle to drive Islamic State militants out of their self-declared capital.

It turns out that throwing as hard as you can may not be a safe or effective way to pitch.

The more the former colony looks like a paler version of Shenzhen, the more Beijing recalculates the value of a deal it struck with London in a different era.

Since 1996 Disney has created more than fifty original cable TV shows. Some have been huge successes while others have flopped, but Disney believes its new slate of programs will lift ratings. Image: Disney/Everett Composite: Mark Kelly

The European Union and Japan’s leaders will gather in Brussels on Thursday, seeking to announce a sweeping trade deal that would send a strong signal for global cooperation against U.S. protectionism a day before the Group of 20 summit.

North Korea said it successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, claiming a major advance in its attempt to threaten the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.

North Korea said it successfully test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile, a claim that could escalate tensions between Pyongyang and the rest of the world.

Clariant’s bid to create a $14 billion chemicals giant through a merger with U.S.-based Huntsman has come under attack from a group of the Swiss company’s largest shareholders who are pushing to derail the transaction.

A scion of one of the richest family empires in Hong Kong is making a bold bet to turn a dowdy strip of waterfront into a glamorous front-row seat to one of the world’s most stunning skylines.

Italy has a long record of recovering slowly from earthquakes, and people in Amatrice and surrounding towns in central Italy that were devastated by last August’s disaster fear that dismal history is being repeated.

The prices of goods leaving the eurozone’s factory gates fell in May at the fastest pace in over a year, another indication that inflation is likely to remain weak despite a pickup in economic growth.

Oil investors took an unwelcome rollercoaster ride in June—unfortunately optimism on slowing U.S. supply, which is now pushing prices back up, also looks overdone

For the second time in two days, entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX was forced to scrub blastoff of a large commercial communications satellite after an automated system aborted the launch within seconds of liftoff.

President Donald Trump in a tweet Monday offered assistance for a gravely ill British boy at the center of a legal and moral fight but didn’t say what form that would take.

Tesla said vehicle sales in the second quarter rose about 53%, but that it couldn’t produce enough to meet demand because of a shortage of battery packs. Chief Executive Elon Musk also signaled an even tighter timetable for ambitious plans to produce its new Model 3 sedans.

A $15 minimum wage changes the basic labor-market bargain between the fast-food industry and its workers.

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