Yahoo Posts Profit Ahead Of Verizon Takeover

Yahoo Posts Profit Ahead Of Verizon Takeover

20.04.2017

Other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Ipswich Investment Management Co. In addition, Mavens revenue is $391 million, and represented 40 percent of traffic-driven revenue, in the first quarter of 2017, excluding the impact of the change in revenue presentation .

AkzoNobel Plans to Spin off Specialty Chemicals Unit

AkzoNobel Plans to Spin off Specialty Chemicals Unit

20.04.2017

AkzoNobel announced the plans at a meeting for analysts in London. Quarterly revenue rose 7% to EUR3.67 billion, mainly as a result of higher volumes and acquisitions. Formed in 1994 in a merger between Akzo and Nobel, the Amsterdam group employs 46,000 people in 80 countries. It says it makes a range of products including "chemicals which are essential ingredients in everything from ice cream to asphalt, soup to soap, and plastics to paper".

Shoney's Restaurants, IHG Hotels Hit by Credit Card Breaches

Shoney's Restaurants, IHG Hotels Hit by Credit Card Breaches

20.04.2017

Holiday Inn Express Hotels in Santa Barbara, Lompoc, Atascadero and Solvang were part of a security breach that affected 1,200 InterContinental Hotels Group locations beginning September 29, 2016, the company announced April 14. The company has over 5,000 hotels across 100 counties, with brands such as Holiday Inn , Holiday Inn Resort, Holiday Inn Express , Crowne Plaza , Hotel Indigo , InterContinental, Kimpton, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites.

Bill O'Reilly says historic run at Fox ended over 'unfounded' allegations

20.04.2017

Is it because of his remarks about slaves being "well-fed?" The network's parent company, entertainment giant 21st Century Fox , insisted that Fox News will weather the current storm, noting in a statement the "strength of its talent bench" and expressing "full confidence that the network will continue to be a powerhouse in cable news".

EPA seeks to scuttle cleanup of coal power plant pollution

20.04.2017

Pruitt agreed to visit the Superfund site last month, following requests from Holcomb; U.S. Sen. Residents of the complex and environmental activists protested ahead of his visit. Geertsman explained East Chicago and the state of IN have a poor history with treating the city's drinking water for lead. Crews are replacing underground lead water pipelines.

Turkish President insists constitutional reforms don't make him 'dictator'

20.04.2017

White House press secretary Sean Spicer responded to the result of Turkey's referendum with caution and said he would withhold from commenting until a final report of election observer is complete by next week. "What makes any country a democracy is the security of the ballot boxes", Feyzioglu told Reuters. Relations have further soured since Erdogan accused the German and Dutch governments of acting like Nazis after they banned referendum campaign rallies by Turkish officials.

United CEO says no one will be fired for dragging incident

20.04.2017

Executives with the company said on the call that it was too soon to know if the incident would have an effect on the airline's bottomline. The incident got widespread attention on social media in China, which is a key market for United . I want to support United Airlines in the customer-off situation. Munoz's remarks came as shares of United Continental dropped another 4 percent Tuesday despite the company reporting earnings that exceeded expectations on Monday.

Pence to visit mosque in Indonesian capital

Pence to visit mosque in Indonesian capital

20.04.2017

He went on to vow that the United States would "defeat any attack and meet any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming and effective American response". Later, he met with the Japanese finance minister when the two nations formally launched the U.S. -Japan economic dialogue, which is the first step towards negotiating a bilateral trade agreement.

BlackRock assets under management hit $5.4tn on record ETF inflows

BlackRock assets under management hit $5.4tn on record ETF inflows

20.04.2017

BlackRock's net income rose to $862 million, or $5.23 per share as its tax rate declined in the first quarter ended March 31, from $657 million, or $3.92 per share, a year earlier. Inflows were split close to evenly between those core products and other iShares ETFs, Mr Fink said. The company had reported the adjusted revenue growth of 8 percent to $2.82 billion in the first quarter of FY 17, missing the analysts' estimates for revenue of $2.87 billion.

Man dragged from United flight launches legal action

Man dragged from United flight launches legal action

20.04.2017

United's explanation "has been unsatisfactory, and appears to underestimate the public anger about this incident", four senators wrote in letters Tuesday to United CEO Oscar Munoz and Ginger Evans, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Aviation.