Новости за 02.04.2018

General Electric Co. has reached a deal to sell part of its health-care information-technology business to private-equity firm Veritas Capital for $1.05 billion in cash, the latest move from the conglomerate to streamline its operations.

The evacuation of civilians and fighters from the rebel stronghold of Douma, near Damascus, marks a major victory for the Assad regime in its relentless assault to secure the Syrian capital.

Dafnis Prieto revisits many of his works, this time with a big band of his own.

Investors rushed out of the biggest names in the tech industry, the latest sign that scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators, backlash from consumers and flagging share performance is threatening to undermine their dominance in the stock market.

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The escalating trade tensions between Beijing and Washington have pulled America’s farmers and agricultural exporters into the melee.

The stubborn persistence of anti-Semitic acts in the country where the Holocaust was plotted is raising concern that decades of work to eradicate prejudice against Jews are slowly being undone as it crops up among migrants.

The staff turns over, but the Trump presidential agenda remains remarkably faithful to the one he promised in 2016.

Trump goes off on a DACA twitter tirade, China goes through on tariff promise, and stop paying "overdraft" fees.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the antiapartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela who herself endured prison and painful personal sacrifices for black freedom, died Monday. She was 81 years old.

China imposed tariffs on a range of U.S. goods, following through on a promise to retaliate against the Trump administration’s penalties on imports of Chinese steel and aluminum.

The right kind of diet may give the brain more of what it needs to avoid depression, or even to treat it once it’s begun.

Cities are scrutinizing Amazon’s business practices to concoct the perfect 48-hour-or-less site visit in their all-out effort to woo the internet giant’s new headquarters.

An analysis by The Wall Street Journal found that private markets have more than doubled in size over the past decade, surpassing the growth of public stocks and bonds available to all investors. That’s transforming how companies grow, concentrating investing in fewer hands and raising concerns on oversight.

As Spotify is about to go public, CEO Daniel Ek faces the daunting task of making his company profitable while fending off streaming competition from tech giants such as Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Amazon.com.

A study by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul found that the country lacks adequate emergency shelters as well as equipment, such as gas masks.

Bodil Kjær, a grande dame of Danish design, returns to the fore.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg shot back at Apple CEO Tim Cook’s critiques of his company, writing them off as “not aligned with the truth.”

The fences that crisscross the vast ranches of the U.S. and Australian Outback seem like an unlikely candidate for tech disruption. But several startups are betting that high-tech collars for cattle, goats and other livestock could render them obsolete.

Boko Haram insurgents launched coordinated assaults on a Nigerian military base and villages close to a regional capital on Monday, a brazen operation that left at least 20 people dead just weeks after the government confirmed it was in talks with a breakaway faction of the extremist group.

Financial-technology firm GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a sizable initial public offering that could come as soon as this summer.

Our collective obsession with Netflix’s cult-focused documentary series ‘Wild Wild Country’ mirrors the fashion world’s tribe mentality.

Mix of more retirees, fewer workers to support each one, leaves budgets of countries such as Brazil with little money to invest in growth or basic services

Natural gas that is supercooled and shipped around the world may be the only big growth market for the fossil-fuels industry.

The electric-vehicle maker’s shares slid, suggesting investors were in no laughing mood over CEO Elon Musk’s bankruptcy tweets.