Lujiazui Business Districk in Pudong, Shanghai, China. Liqun Liu | Construction Photography | Hulton Archive | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets fell on the holiday-shortened and final trading day of the year. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 inched 0.03% lower to close at 8,714.3. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index declined 0.87% to close at 25,630.54, while the mainland CSI…
Gold and silver have seen a rollercoaster end to a year in which their prices are on track to record their biggest annual gains since 1979. The price of gold soared by more than 60% this year to hit a record high of more than $4,549 (£3,378) an ounce before falling after Christmas to stand…
You can still find futuristic EVs at CES, but this year it’s all about the software on board. By Chance Townsend Chance Townsend Assistant Editor, General Assignments Chance Townsend is the General Assignments Editor at Mashable, covering tech, video games, dating apps, digital culture, and whatever else comes his way. He has a Master’s in…
Nearly 3,000 pounds of ground beef across six states was recalled on Saturday due to possible E. coli contamination, the Department of Agriculture said. Idaho-based Mountain West Food Group recalled 2,855 pounds of raw ground beef, sold under the Forward Farms brand in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania and Washington. A routine inspection identified the…
Meta says it is acquiring the Chinese-founded AI firm Manus as it looks to boost the capabilities of its tech. Bloomberg analysts and The Wall Street Journal suggested the purchase could be worth more than $2bn (£1.48bn). Meta said the deal would help improve its own AI by giving people access to “agents” – tools…
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Paramount made a hostile bid for WBD on December 8 © Reuters Warner Bros Discovery plans to reject the latest takeover proposal from Paramount, even after billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison agreed to personally backstop the $108bn hostile bid. WBD’s board still views the $83bn deal it agreed with Netflix in early December as superior…
Are you one of the Gem State’s newest millionaires? Officials have unveiled the purchase locations of the winning tickets for the Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle. BOISE, Idaho — Two lucky Gem State residents are celebrating as the state’s newest millionaires. The Idaho Lottery on Tuesday announced it has confirmed the retail locations for the grand-prize winning…
JERUSALEM, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Nvidia (NVDA) is in advanced talks to buy Israel-based AI startup AI21 Labs for as much as $3 billion, the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday. Nvidia declined to comment, while AI21 was not immediately available to comment. A 2023 funding round valued AI21 at $1.4 billion. Nvidia and Alphabet’s…
MILAN — The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach of unclassified material from science servers following reports on social media. A threat actor claimed to have compromised ESA systems and to have leaked roughly 200 gigabytes of data. According to screenshots shared on X by French cybersecurity professional Seb Latom, the actor alleges…
Danielle KayeBusiness reporter Reuters The Walt Disney Company will pay $10m (£7.4m) to resolve claims that it broke children’s privacy laws by failing to label some YouTube videos as made for children, allowing for targeted advertising. Disney had agreed to a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission in September to resolve an inquiry into…
(Bloomberg) — Jed Ellerbroek barely slept. Most Read from Bloomberg It was the evening of Wednesday, April 2, and President Donald Trump had just appeared in the White House Rose Garden, brandishing a large placard with the punitive tariff rates he was slapping on countries around the world. On Wall Street, it quickly sunk in…
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As shopping editors who test hundreds of products every year, we’ve pretty much seen it all — or so we thought. Every year, there’s a few products that manage to exceed our expectations and keep us coming back for more. Below, I put together a list of products that took us pleasantly by surprise in…
By Dawn Chmielewski Dec 30 (Reuters) – Warner Bros Discovery will likely reject Paramount Skydance’s amended $108.4 billion hostile bid for the storied Hollywood studio despite a personal guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison backing the media giant’s offer, according to a person familiar with the matter. The board has yet to make a final decision,…
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When Graham Walker agreed to sell Fibrebond Corp., the Louisiana manufacturing company his father founded, he made sure the deal would transform the lives of its 540 full-time employees as much as his own. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the 46-year-old CEO carved out a roughly $240 million bonus pool from the $1.7…
An Idaho-based company is recalling nearly 3,000 pounds of raw ground beef that may have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria. The recall involves 16-ounce vacuum-sealed packages labeled “Forward Farms Grass-Fed Ground Beef.” Affected packages were produced Dec. 16 and have a label telling customers to use or freeze the meat by Jan. 13. The…
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Tuesday released minutes from its highly divisive meeting earlier this month, which concluded with a vote to lower interest rates again that appeared to be an even closer call than the final vote indicated. Officials expressed a variety of opinions during the Dec. 9-10 meeting, according to the summary…
In this article SBUX DENN WEN JACK PZZA NDLS BLMN DRI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT As the restaurant industry endured another difficult year, many chains opted to close underperforming locations as they try to turn around their businesses. Inflation-weary consumers have pulled back their restaurant spending, choosing to eat at home or chasing…
Mortgage rates haven’t moved much since the Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate at its December meeting. However, with a thoughtful strategy, you can secure a mortgage interest rate below the national average. Here are eight tips for getting the lowest mortgage rate possible in the 2026 housing market. Analysis by Yahoo Finance of…
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Silver recovered most losses after its biggest one-day drop in more than five years, with a lingering supply shortage keeping the metal on track for a 35% monthly gain. The white metal climbed above $78 an ounce on Tuesday, following a 9% slide in the previous session, while gold edged higher after…
Mortgage rates are lower, home prices are easing and there is more supply on the market for sale. All of that adds up to improved affordability for today’s homebuyers. Saving for a down payment, however, is still the biggest hurdle for first-time buyers. Prices nationally are basically flat compared with where they were a year…
Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty Images Workers may have a new way to help prepare for a largely unpredictable health-related expense during their golden years. Under a new rule now in effect, 401(k) plans are permitted to let participants take limited penalty-free withdrawals to pay for long-term care insurance, which covers the cost of…
Nvidia’s $20 billion move may help the company stay ahead in the fast-paced world of AI. Nvidia (NVDA +0.52%) has dominated the early stages of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, and this is thanks to the company’s top-performing chips. These graphics processing units (GPUs) power the training of models, so that they have what it…
The large payouts to associates underscore how competitive the legal market has become © Adam Gray/Bloomberg Mid-level lawyers at some US firms will be paid bonuses of more than $300,000 this month as top firms battle to hire and keep star performers. New York law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel has announced total bonuses for…
HONG KONG (AP) — By some measures, China’s economy is looking resilient, with strong exports and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. But that’s not how it feels for many ordinary Chinese, who have been enduring the strain from weak property prices and uncertainty over their jobs and incomes. While some industries are…
Love it or hate it, AI is increasingly becoming integral to the way we work. So, like a lot of employees, you’ve started using it for your assignments. That’s great – unless you’re not clear on what defines acceptable versus unacceptable uses of AI for your job and which specific tools your employer has approved…
New York — In 2025, shoppers said farewell to a number of well-known retailers. Forever 21 didn’t live up to its name. The celebrations ended at Party City. And it all went wrong for Rite Aid. These stores were just some of the roughly 8,200 locations that shut their doors this year, about 12% more…
Archie MitchellBusiness reporter Getty Images Octopus Energy is set to spin off its Kraken Technologies arm as a standalone company after a deal to sell a stake in the platform valued it at $8.65bn (£6.4bn). The energy giant, Britain’s biggest gas and electricity supplier, has sold a $1bn stake in the AI-based division to a…
And just like that, 2025 is coming to an end. Here at Shop TODAY, we’re reflecting on another year of tracking trends, testing products and crowning award winners. Thousands of products come across our desks in a calendar year, but only a small percentage make the cut when it comes to the very best of…
Proposed Business Combination with Nasdaq-listed EKSO to Form an Accelerated Focused GPU Platform Purpose Built for Next-Generation AI Workloads DALLAS, Dec. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking and blockchain workloads, and EKSO Bionics…
Satya Nadella has overhauled Microsoft’s senior leadership this year with a raft of changes intended to keep the 50-year-old software giant ahead in the artificial intelligence race after it restructured its relationship with OpenAI. The Microsoft chief has made big hires, such as former Meta engineering boss Jay Parikh, and elevated senior executives, including commercial…