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This Sunday (Feb. 5), the New England Patriots will face off against the Atlanta Falcons in Houston, Texas in what is sure to be the biggest single televised event of the year. Even in the cord-cutting era, the Super Bowl’s reach is unparalleled, not only in the world of sports, but in all of broadcast […]

Good news Londoners, Stockholmers, and San Franciscans: Vancouver may have solved one of your toughest problems. Last year, the Canadian city topped UBS’s Global Real Estate Bubble index, a ranking of cities most at risk of being in a property bubble; the bank said Vancouver’s housing market was in “overdrive.” But in the last four […]Read More

“This country has been blessed by immigrants,” Warren Buffett said of the US, reminding his fellow citizens that for many, being American is merely an accident of birth—the result of winning the “ovarian lottery.” Taking it one step further, he calculated his odds of his being born an American male at 80-to-1. “I was born […]Read More

Over the past 48 hours, much of the coverage of President Trump’s executive order has focused on entry bans to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and rightly so. With lives awkwardly disrupted and travelers stranded at airports in transit to America, or detained in America when they arrive, the human toll of the ban has […]

US president Donald Trump’s latest executive order, signed Monday, bars federal agencies—like the US Environmental Protection Agency, or the Food and Drug Administration, for example—from issuing any new regulation without simultaneously repealing two others. In that case, agencies will reportedly be able to submit which regulations they would choose to drop, and the White House […]Read More

For the single weekend it’s been in effect, US president Donald Trump’s immigration ban—an executive order forbidding citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the country—has tossed US universities into chaos. A number of students and professors at US schools who briefly left the country, whether for research trips or winter vacations, are now unable […]Read More

Indian telecoms giant Bharti Airtel plans to rationalize subsidiary Airtel’s African operations, according to chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal. Those comments combined with already circulating rumors sparked headlines suggesting Airtel is quitting the continent altogether. Mittal agreed with the interviewer that company’s run in 15 African countries had not been as successful as they had hoped. […]

One of the world’s biggest movie studios is writing down nearly $1 billion because of the ever-changing way we consume entertainment. Japanese entertainment juggernaut Sony announced in a filing today that it will take a $962 million goodwill-impairment charge against its film and TV division, Sony Pictures Entertainment, in the third quarter of 2016. The […]

In the first few days after the US inaugurated its new president, Republicans who openly criticized Donald Trump on the campaign trail remained mostly mum as he issued executives orders that stretched the power of the presidency. Many were taking a “wait and see” approach, to find out if they could get the corporate tax […]

Last quarter, Apple announced an annual decline in revenue and profit, its first in 15 years. Over that period, the company revolutionized personal computing, and launched the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. But the sheen started to wear thin in 2016, as Apple’s newer models of old product lines, as well as entirely new products like […]

Those searching for clues about the next Star Wars movie should catch up on their classic cinema. The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson told Empire magazine that three specific films influenced his work on the highly anticipated Star Wars installment, due out in December of this year. Each film, he said, informed The Last Jedi […]

With at least six former employees working in the Trump administration, it might be expected that Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, would keep quiet about the new US president’s executive order banning travel from seven countries. Not so. Blankfein sent a voicemail to Goldman employees last night (Jan. 29), criticizing the order and offering […]