Новости за 18.06.2015

Square announced an unexpected new member will be joining its board Wednesday: Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson. Johnson will officially join the board of directors at the payments processing company this summer. “I have the deepest admiration for Earvin as a tireless champion for creating economic opportunity in underserved communities,” Jack Dorsey, Square’s CEO said in a press

U.S. Global Investors’s Frank Holmes suggests gold prices may have bottomed for the year.

Man seen wearing full-length niqab and carrying Peppa Pig rucksack is held amid suspicious package incident in Watford town centre

Man seen wearing full-length niqab and carrying Peppa Pig rucksack is held amid suspicious package incident in Watford town centre

Fitbit's initial public offering priced at $20 per share, bringing in more than $730 million and valuing Fitbit at about $4.1 billion in total. The company had already raised its stock price expectations this week and said the IPO would include additional shares, but the offering still surpassed its estimates. Market research company CCS Insight expects that companies including Fitbit, Jawbone, Nike, Xaomi, Garmin and Misfit will ship 24 million fitness trackers in the U.S. this year, and says that number will double in 2018. Читать дальше...

Singapore-based executive Gery Messer on memorable journeys to Machu Picchu and the Galápagos Islands—and a trip to Moscow that never happened.

NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators sweeping a jail after breaking up a drug smuggling ring uncovered an inmate's apparent escape plot using 64 neatly tied together bedsheets, enough for him to shimmy down 11 stories from his cellblock to the street, city officials said Thursday. Ernest Murphy, awaiting trial on an attempted murder charge, had the sheets stashed under a sink in his cell at the Manhattan Detention Center, said Mark Peters, commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation.... Читать дальше...

Greece and its creditors still don't have a deal. 

This follow a meeting with Eurogroup finance ministers in which Greece proposed a new set of reforms that were rejected by its creditors. 

Following the meeting, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem said at a press conference that, "no agreement yet is in sight" and that the ball is "clearly in the Greek court."

After all of this drama, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis posted the full list of reforms proposed by Greece on his personal blog... Читать дальше...

Facebook is not offering its new photo-sharing app Moments in Europe because of regulators’ concerns about its facial-recognition technology, the company’s European policy chief said Thursday.

David Hasselhoff's mockumentary is a terrific addition to a well-worn format, says Michael Hogan

The sale includes the actor’s furniture, books, art and other personal items.

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Japanese police arrested Toyota Motor Corp. communications executive Julie Hamp, alleging she tried to import the painkiller oxycodone from the U.S.

ECB official reportedly tells eurozone finance ministers it isn’t clear Greek banks will be able to open Monday, underlining fears Greece could be moving closer to capital controls and, subsequently, Greek exit.

ECB official reportedly tells eurozone finance ministers it isn’t clear Greek banks will be able to open Monday, underlining fears Greece could be moving closer to capital controls and, subsequently, Greek exit.

BOSTON (AP) — The lawyer for a Boston man charged with drunken boating says his client was swimming in the water and not on his boat when someone else turned it on and the propeller severed a 19-year-old woman's right arm. Urbelis, who is a lawyer specializing in drunken driving cases, has pleaded not guilty to charges including reckless and drunken boating causing a serious injury.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said Thursday that details on where the money will come from will be in the fall budget

The Red Sox ugly season just got uglier as one of their big offseason free agency acquisitions, third baseman Pablo Sandoval, has been benched for one game after admitting he used Instagram during a game in which he was participating, according to Ian Browne of MLB.com.

 Jack Black again plays main character Po, and Bryan Cranston plays his dad in the latest installment of "Kung Fu Panda." And the trailer features an awesome scene where they first come upon each other in the movie.

(AP) — The University of Missouri Panhellenic Association is proposing an education plan to help sororities prevent sexual assaults on campus. The plan also calls for requiring sorority chapter leaders to be trained to handle reports of sexual violence in their chapters and establishing peer educators. The peer educators would be from each sorority's pledge class who would receive additional training on how to address sexual assault and, in turn, help educate other new members.

Former Heisman Trophy winner John David Crow, a running back who earned the last of his four Pro Bowl berths with the 49ers, died Wednesday night at 79. Mr. Crow, the No. 2 overall pick of the Chicago Cardinals in 1958, spent the final four seasons of his 11-year career with the 49ers. The versatile Mr. Crow also has the most completions (33) of any non-quarterback in NFL history and his do-it-all ability netted him the Heisman Trophy in 1957 at Texas A&M. A two-way player, Mr. Crow earned the award after rushing for 562 yards... Читать дальше...

Oracle on Thursday officially acknowledged that it had hired former HP star Dave Donatelli.

State Street Corp. said it has received a so-called "Wells notice" from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is a notice informing the bank that the regulator is planning an enforcement action. The bank said the notice relates to a probe into its solicitation of asset servicing business for public pensions. Specifically, it relates to its use of consultants and lobbyists to drum up business from two specific clients, and in one instance, of a political contribution made by a consultant during and after a public bidding process. Читать дальше...

Fitbit rallied as much as 52% on Thursday in its debut as a public company.