The world’s largest social network, Facebook had completed its maiden full scale flight of its solar powered drone Aquila for 90 minutes over Arizona, designed to beam the internet down to remote areas of the world. Jay Parikh, Facebook’s global head of engineering and infrastructure, said the company’s connectivity lab was working on projects from…
Banks including HSBC paid $5bn in regulatory fines twenty months ago, over their role in rigging foreign exchange benchmark scandal. This week, its British head of Forex cash trading Mark Johnson was arrested by US authorities at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport, and an arrest warrant was granted for his former sub-ordinate, Stuart Scott,…
120-years five months and 18 days old, Jesuina dos Santos Cardoso, who should have gone into the Guinness Book of records died on Wednesday 20th July 2016, after a heart ailment, should have beaten the previous record of 116 years by an American woman at New York. Born on 30th January, 1896, she used to…
Indian hockey legend Mohammed Shahid (56), a forward in the Olympic gold-winning team at Moscow 1980, died in Gurgaon on Wednesday 20th July 2016 suffering from severe liver and kidney ailments. He was admitted to Meanta- the Medicity earlier this month after suffering from Jaundice and dengue. He was airlifted from Varanasi. Known…
Japan’s SoftBank has agreed to buy UK’s Arm Holdings for £24bn in a move that could make the British smartphone chip designer a leader in one of the big technology market, ”the internet of things”. It’s the biggest since Brexit, as it made cheaper for foreign companies like SoftBank to hunt for deals in UK. SoftBank…
Yahoo reported a $60m rise in revenue to $1.3bn for the three months to June 2016. The increase was mainly due to its core internet business and also mobile revenue leapt from $252m to $378m. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said about attempt to sell its core internet business as the firm slumped to $440m (£332m)…
British Airway’s new check-in system developed a glitch which left passengers delayed for hours at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Hundreds of British Airways customers have had their flights canceled or delayed due to a worldwide computer failure. The worst affected airport was Heathrow where the system was down from 6:45am to 8:50am on Saturday which…
Jul 14-18, 2016 – 1st Investec Test at Lord’s London Day 4 England Vs Pakistan Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat Pakistan 339, Misbah-ul-Haq 114 off 199, 18 fours, Asad Shafiq 73 off 130, 12 fours, Mohammed Hafeez 40 off 59, 8 fours, CR Woakes 70-6, SCJ Broad 71-3, JT Ball 51-1 &…
Jul 14-18, 2016 – 1st Investec Test at Lord’s London England Vs Pakistan Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat Pakistan 339, Misbah-ul-Haq 114 off 199, 18 fours, Asad Shafiq 73 off 130, 12 fours, Mohammed Hafeez 40 off 59, 8 fours, CR Woakes 70-6, SCJ Broad 71-3, JT Ball 51-1 & 214/8 (77…
1563 military personnel have been detained across Turkey according to a senior Turkish official. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealed to people to go out on street and show support and he told the nation that his government is in charge. The foiled coup attempt killed 90 and injured 1000. Earlier, one of the helicopters…