Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera both aged under 30, at MGM’s animation department had worked 80 years ago and struggled to emulate the success of other studios who had hit characters like Porky Pig and Mickey Mouse to come with a cartoon cat sick of annoying mouse living in his home, devices a plot to…
Twitter crossed $1bn in quarterly revenue for the first time in the final three months of 2019 shocking Wall Street estimates and sending Twitter stocks soaring by 18 per cent in early trading yesterday in New York. Mr. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, insisted although he was planning to spend as much as six months…
Dr. Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who tried to warn about the coronavirus outbreak, has died after contracting the virus while treating patients in Wuhan, which has sparked public anger and grief in China. Last December he sent a message to fellow medics warning of a virus he thought looked like Sars – a global…
Pegasus Airlines passenger plane carrying 171 passengers and six crew was landing in heavy rain after flying in from the western province of Izmir, has skidded off the runway at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport in Turkey and broken into three prices, injuring 21 people. Cahit Turhan, the Transport Minister said no-one died in the incident.…
Goldman Sachs struck a deal with Amazon to offer small business loans to its US customers as the Wall Street Bank is turning to big tech companies to extend its push on to the high street. Goldman has begun building technology to facilitate loan offers to small and medium-sized companies over the online retailers’ landing…
The US has approved its first drug AR101 or Palforzia which uses oral immunotherapy treatment for peanut allergies in children given in tiny but increasing doses of peanut protein over a six-month period under medical supervision. The treatment is not a cure and makers warn that the risk of a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction remains.…
Trump administration is the leakiest administration since the Founding Fathers created parchment, much of what happens behind the scenes in nearly real-time accompanied by the running commentary from the President’s Twitter account. Washington Post reporters Philip Rocker and Carol Leonnig reveal Trump at his unvarnished, showing the unhinged decision-making and incompetence that has floored officials…
Airbus for years practiced a “massive scheme to offer and pay bribes” involving top executives, according to disclosure in courts in Washington, Paris, and London as Europe’s aerospace champion agreed to pay €3.6bn in penalties to regulators in France, the UK, and the US. Many of the bribes were paid through shell companies set up…
Dozens of trucks an hour setting off from the avocado belt in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan for the US, armed robbers are zeroing in on the fast-growing Avocado multi-billion-dollar industry. The rise in Avocado related crime has turned part of the state into no-go areas even for the police. Juan whose family has farms…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hails ” the dawn of the new era” for Britain as it ends its EU membership as the clock ticks towards 11 pm and urges the country to come together after bitter division. In Brussels, the British flag will be lowered at EU Institutions for the last time after 47 years.…