Australian Dollar turns tepid amid a risk aversion sentiment on Thursday. Australia’s Retail Sales (MoM) increased by 0.3%, against the expected 0.4% and 1.1% prior. US Dollar corrects ahead of US GDP Annualized data due on Thursday. The Australian Dollar (AUD) loses ground on Thursday as risk aversion prevails on Thursday. Challenges persisted for the AUD/USD pair due to softer Consumer Inflation Expectations and Retail Sales figures from Australia. These factors heightened expectations of the...
Get your joke book out and plan your pratfalls and pranks because April 1st, better known as April Fool’s Day, is the time once a year to celebrate by playing good-spirited tricks on friends and family. Funny enough, despite its worldwide popularity, this holiday has a long history but mysterious origins. One of the earliest possible explanations goes all the way back to 1508 when French Poet Eloy d’Amerval referred to a “poisson d’avril,” or “April Fool.” Although, translated, this […]
The criminal trial over the $11bn sale of Autonomy to HP saw prosecutors calling him ‘Dr Lynch’ – and defense using ‘Mike’At the height of his career, Mike Lynch – once the UK’s leading tech entrepreneur, hailed as “Britain’s Bill Gates” – sold his software firm to a Silicon Valley giant in an $11bn (£8.6bn) deal. Last Monday, more than a dozen years later, that deal became the centrepiece of a trial in San Francisco.Lynch has been charged with 16 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and...
RCS and green bubbles in iPhone-to-Android texts play role in Apple/DOJ battle.
RESIDENTS are fuming after their affordable new homes were boarded up – with no one allowed in. Developer Bridge View said council delays and “abnormal” costs have stopped it deli
Apple's iMessage is now mentioned in its US DOJ antitrust case.
"Whenever the subject comes up, [my mother-in-law] just says, 'Don't you have to water down everything? It's all horse-trading. And nowadays the incoming abuse is unthinkable.'" — Hugh Grant
Shoplifting and inflation have taken a toll on the once ubiquitous dollar stores
The lack of diversity could mean the fruit’s extinction. It offers a stark warning of what could happen to other key foodsThe meeting of the World Banana Forum last week in Rome didn’t make many headlines. But what was under discussion there has serious implications for everyone. The ubiquitous yellow fruit is the proverbial canary in the mine of our modern food system, showing just how fragile it is. And the current plight of the banana should serve as an invitation to us all to become...
I have a confession. I fudged, OK lied, to the DMV. I did it four times. It was about my weight.
No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has unveiled its 27th major update,
Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20–August 11, 2024). Kiyan Williams, Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master’s House, 2024. “What we really wanted to do was be in response to what artists were talking about.” [ more › ]