The billionaire's Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff challenges to its dominance of high-speed satellite internet, including from a Chinese state-backed rival and another service financed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.
Online fast-fashion retailer Shein's profit dropped last year, adding to its challenges ahead of a planned listing in London, according to the Financial Times.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday joined a growing list of American companies to publicly change their approach to discussing their commitment to diversity and inclusion.
American puts injuries behind her to win in Sestriere
Shiffrin is first skier ever to reach 100 World Cup wins
Mikaela Shiffrin secured the 100th Alpine skiing World Cup victory of her career on Sunday, winning the slalom event in Sestriere.
The American finished 0.61 seconds ahead of Croatia’s Zrinka Ljutic to extend her record tally of wins at the event and become the first skier, male or female, to reach triple digits in World Cup race victories.
Barça beat Las Palmas 2-0 and Atléti stay on their heels
Inter move top of Serie A with Napoli to play on Sunday
Dani Olmo and Ferran Torres came off the bench to rescue a 2-0 win for Barcelona at Las Palmas on Saturday that sent them back to the top of the La Liga table after a game that is unlikely to live long in the memory.
Barcelona now lead on 54 points, one ahead of Atlético Madrid. Real Madrid are third on 51 but have a game in hand and will host Girona on Sunday.
The pope was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on February 14 after experiencing difficulty breathing for several days and subsequently had pneumonia diagnosed in both lungs.
Atalanta manager says: ‘I didn’t want to offend anyone’
Striker called manager’s comments ‘deeply disrespectful’
Atalanta’s manager, Gian Piero Gasperini, said he never intended to offend Ademola Lookman by saying the striker is “one of the worst penalty takers he has ever seen” after their home Champions League defeat by Club Brugge.
Belgian side Club Brugge stunned Atalanta 3-1 in the second leg of their playoff tie to dump the Italian side out with a 5-2 aggregate win and reach the last 16. Lookman, Atalanta’s hero last season when they won the Europa League, pulled back one goal for the Italian side when they were 3-0 down.
All three major stock indexes moved decisively lower, extending sell-off in wake of dour economic reports
US stocks tumbled on Friday, extending a sell-off in the wake of dour economic reports and closing the book on a holiday-shortened week fraught with new tariff threats and worries of softening consumer demand.
All three major US stock indexes moved decisively lower on the heels of the data, and continued their slide into afternoon trading.
In Buriticupu, about 1,200 people risk losing their homes, and residents have seen the problem escalate in 30 years
Authorities in a city in the Brazilian Amazon have declared a state of emergency after huge sinkholes opened up, threatening hundreds of homes.
Several buildings in Buriticupu, in Maranhão state, have already been destroyed, and about 1,200 people of a population of 55,000 risk losing their homes into a widening abyss.
British No 1 recovers to beat Jiri Lehecka 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3
World No 2 Zverev shocked by Francisco Comesano
The British No 1, Jack Draper, produced another gutsy display to defeat Jiri Lehecka in three sets at the Qatar Open and reach the fifth ATP Tour final of his career, while world No 2 Alexander Zverev tumbled out of he Rio Open against Francisco Comesana.
Lehecka had stunned Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter-finals in Doha and looked on course to claim another scalp when he won the first set. Draper required a tie-break to get the match back on level terms before he showed his class in the decider to take victory by a 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3 score.
Outside lawyer appointed to present arguments against prosecutors seeking to drop case against New York mayor
A New York judge on Friday said he would not immediately dismiss Eric Adams’s corruption case, but ordered the Democratic New York City mayor’s trial delayed indefinitely after the justice department asked for the charges to be dismissed.
In a written ruling, the US district judge Dale Ho in Manhattan said he would appoint an outside lawyer, Paul Clement of the law firm Clement & Murphy PLLC, to present arguments against the federal prosecutors’ bid to dismiss, in order to help the judge make his decision.
Case brought during Biden presidency accused space company of refusing, unlawfully, to hire certain immigrants
The US Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.
The justice department last month signaled it could back away from the case, brought during Joe Biden’s term. Musk, a top adviser and donor to Donald Trump, is leading a commission tasked with identifying waste in the federal government, dubbed the “department of government efficiency”, or Doge.
Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artifacts pulled out of museum storage in China to be restored and, one day, even showcased to the world.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - La Commission européenne proposera au moins cinq séries de règles cette année pour encourager l'investissement et simplifier la réglementation des entreprises, y compris dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle (IA), a annoncé jeudi la commissaire européenne chargée de la Souveraineté numérique.
La Commission doit faire face aux pressions des pays membres de l'UE, comme la France, pour assouplir la réglementation, ainsi qu'aux défis posés par la nouvelle administration du président américain Donald Trump.
Un projet de document de la Commission européenne, dont Reuters a fait état le mois dernier, a révélé que l'IA, la biotechnologie et l'énergie propre abordable étaient des domaines prioritaires pour rendre l'UE compétitive à l'échelle mondiale.
par Harshita Mary Varghese et Casey Hall
(Reuters) - Alibaba a fait état jeudi d'un chiffre d'affaires légèrement au-dessus des attentes de Wall Street au troisième trimestre, le groupe citant ses fortes ventes de fin d'année et le succès de sa stratégie pour attirer les consommateurs.
Le titre du groupe coté aux États-Unis était en hausse d'envrion 8% dans les échanges avant-Bourse.
Alibaba a enregistré un chiffre d'affaires trimestriel de 280,15 milliards de yuans (36,97 milliards d'euros) tandis que les analystes tablaient en moyenne sur 279,34 milliards de yuans selon les données compilées par LSEG.
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