Новости за 12.01.2017

PayPal rewarded shareholders in 2016 with decent gains. Given these three potential catalysts, its performance this year might be even better.

William Bowes Jr., early biotech investor, philanthropist, dies William K. Bowes Jr., a pioneer investor in the biotechnology industry, an ardent supporter of basic medical research, and long an active philanthropist, died of cardiac arrest at his home in San Francisco on Dec. 28 with his wife, Ute, by his side. Mr. Bowes was a founder of U.S. Venture Partners, the wide-ranging Silicon Valley firm that has backed more than 450 startup companies in varied new fields, and that focuses now on information technology and health care. Читать дальше...

Last week gaming hardware company Razer debuted Project Valerie, a cutting-edge laptop concept that switches automatically between one and three displays. On Sunday, two prototype models were stolen from the Razer booth at CES 2017. The company is offering $US25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

Noted Hollywood germaphobe Howie Mandel says Donald Trump was all wet in his explanation for why he couldn’t possibly have taken part in a golden showers scenario in Russia, as reputed in an unverified dossier published by BuzzFeed. During a Wednesday press conference, Trump attempted to throw warm water on the claim that Trump defiled a bed President Obama slept in at the Moscow Ritz Carlton Hotel “by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) in front of him.”... Читать дальше...

They worry the incoming Trump administration will roll back Obama's moves on military social issues.

Fictionalized versions of him may be flooding your TV screens soon enough. The boss of the Fox Television Group, which produces fare ranging from “This Is Us” to “The Simpsons,” predicts that pitch meetings are about to get Trump-y, now that the volatile real estate mogul is about to move into the Oval Office and is dominating headlines with virtually every tweet. “I’m sure we will,” Gary Newman, co-chairman and CEO of Fox Television Group, said in an interview Wednesday with TheWrap at the Television... Читать дальше...

Fox News' Shep Smith did not take kindly to Trump's arrogant display and attacks of CNN's Jim Acosta or CNN as a news service and he delivered a blistering critique at the end of his program today.

Bills also name coach, tapping Panthers’ defensive coordinator Sean McDermott to replace Rex Ryan

Ah, Hollywood awards season. It must be time for celebrities to don gorgeous clothes, have each individual hair arranged by some stylist and get up on stage to advocate for some political cause - and for the rest of us to spend days arguing about what they said.

Trump announced Wednesday that he was setting up a trust to hold his businesses.

Carla Morrison's second LP, Amor Supremo, proved to be a more prosperous effort than 2012's Déjenme Llorar, soaring to the top...

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has stressed that his country will not pay for a wall that US president-elect Donald Trump plans to construct on the US-Mexico border.

Koroma’s comments came before a meeting with Netanyahu on the second day of his visit here, the first-ever visit to Israel by a Sierra Leonean president.

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean authorities have evacuated about 160 female inmates from a prison in Valparaiso after wind carried in sparks from a nearby wildfire. Valparaiso Police Chief Jaime Barria said Wednesday that there were some pregnant women among those evacuated. He said an undetermined number of male prisoners were moved to the jail’s gymnasium.

With such high equity valuations, it’s clear the upcoming slate of quarterly reports will verify, or dash, recent economic optimism

President-elect acknowledges Moscow hacked election, but likens leak to Nazi tactics

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The US Department of Agriculture on Wednesday took a step toward increasing the production of organic foods — which has not kept pace with demand — by launching a program to certify farmland that growers are in the process of switching to organic.

Obtaining certification under the program will allow farmers to sell products raised in accordance with organic guidelines for higher prices than conventionally-grown goods, according to the Organic Trade Association, an industry group. Читать дальше...

Trump Tower was packed with reporters, supporters and props for Donald Trump's first press conference as President-elect. WSJ's Shelby Holliday reports. Photo: Getty

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's helicopter made an emergency landing while returning to New York City on Wednesday

WASHINGTON — Black lawmakers said Wednesday that Sen. Jeff Sessions at times has shown hostility toward civil rights, making him unfit to be attorney general, as a 1986 letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. surfaced strongly expressing opposition to the Alabama senator. In the second day of confirmation hearings, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, Sessions’ colleague, and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who was beaten in Alabama when he marched for civil rights in the 1960s, warned that Sessions... Читать дальше...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean authorities have evacuated about 160 female inmates from a prison in Valparaiso after wind carried in sparks from a nearby wildfire.

Barbara A. Hayes, 82, died Saturday at her daughter’s Corvallis home. Please share your thoughts and memories for the family at www.demossdurdan.com