(Reuters) – Apple Inc is rebuilding the widely used mapping application on its iPhones from the ground up with its own dataset, but Amsterdam-based TomTom NV will continue to be a data provider for Apple’s maps app, Cupertino, California-based Apple told Reuters on Friday. FILE PHOTO: The Apple Inc. logo is shown outside the company’s
Month: June 2018
MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) – Quincy Jones, the legendary American music producer, was honored on Friday at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the annual event where he served as co-director in the 1990s and continues to be a regular feature. Legendary American producer Quincy Jones poses during a ceremony to rename a concert hall to his name
LONDON (Reuters) – Facebook continues to be evasive in its answers to a British parliamentary committee examining a scandal over misuse of the social media company’s data by Cambridge Analytica, the committee’s chair said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Figurines are seen in front of the Facebook logo in this illustration taken March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Dado
LONDON (Reuters) – More support should be given to music artists dealing with mental health problems and singers, DJs and musicians should talk more openly about their concerns, British singer-songwriter James Arthur has said. The 30-year-old former “The X Factor” winner, who has previously spoken about his battle with anxiety, said awareness of the pressures
CORUCHE, Portugal (Reuters) – A Portuguese tech firm is uncorking an Android smartphone whose case is made from cork, a natural and renewable material native to the Iberian country. A technician works at the Ikimobile factory in Coruche, Portugal June 21, 2018. Picture taken June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante The Ikimobile phone is one of
(Reuters) – Nike Inc’s (NKE.N) shares jumped 12 percent to their all-time high on Friday after the world’s largest shoe maker saw a major sales rebound in its North America business and forecast strong growth for 2019. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Nike (NKE) is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 12, 2016.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A World Cup last 16 match between Spain against Russia would have seemed like a woeful mismatch a month ago but Sunday’s game in Moscow is now much more difficult to call thanks to the 2010 winners’ underwhelming campaign and the hosts’ blistering start. Soccer Football – World Cup – Russia Training
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union issued Prime Minister Theresa May a final Brexit warning on Friday — put your cards on the table, offer ways to overcome “huge” differences and prevent Britain from crashing out of the bloc without a deal. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May attends an European Union leaders summit in Brussels,
SHENZHEN, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese telecoms giant ZTE Corp announced a new board on Friday in a radical management shakeup as part of a $1.4 billion deal with the United States, moving it closer towards getting a devastating American supplier ban lifted. FILE PHOTO: The logo of China’s ZTE Corp is seen at the
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain looks closer to shrugging off a weak start to 2018 that has kept Bank of England interest rates on hold, after official figures showed the services sector gathered steam in April and first-quarter economic growth was faster than thought. Visitors admire St.Paul’s Cathedral from the restaurant floor of the Tate Modern
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Executives from natural gas companies call their increasingly cheap and plentiful fuel the world’s best answer to climate change: it produces about half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned in a power plant and it can fuel trucks, trains and ships. FILE PHOTO: Joni Spiers wears a gas mask while rallying
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Reuters) – A science fiction-inspired robot hardwired to assist astronauts will launch from Florida early Friday morning to become the first personal, artificial intelligence-powered companion in space. Bret Greenstein of IBM holds an artificial intelligence bot named CIMON, following a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S., June 28,
GENEVA (Reuters) – Ken Isaacs, the U.S. nominee to lead the U.N. migration agency, was knocked out of the race on Friday after coming third behind Portugal’s Antonio Vitorino and Costa Rica’s Laura Thompson in a secret ballot of member states in Geneva, delegates said. Ken Isaacs, U.S. candidate for Director general of the United
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s housing market perked up in May but there were more signs of caution among consumers ahead of Brexit next year, Bank of England figures showed on Friday. Cranes tower above a building site for residential apartments in central London, Britain February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville The BoE is watching for clear
DUBLIN (Reuters) – The British and Irish governments agreed for the first time in over a decade on Thursday to convene a British-Irish cooperative body as Dublin seeks a greater say in the running of Northern Ireland amid a political deadlock there. A bus-stop and red post box stand in the border town of Jonesborough,
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Multinational companies like Amazon Inc (AMZN.O) and H&M (HMb.ST) are lobbying to soften a ban against single-use plastic imposed by an Indian state last week, according to four sources familiar with the matter. A notice is pasted outside a shop stating the unavailability of plastic bags at a market in Mumbai, India,
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