Business News Roundup, Aug. 9
Lending Club’s loss widened to $81.4 million in the second quarter as the online loan venture sought to contain damage from a surprise leadership shakeup in May.
On Monday, it also announced that Chief Financial Officer Carrie Dolan resigned “to pursue a new opportunity.”
The adjusted per-share operating loss was 9 cents, missing the 3-cent loss estimated by analysts.
Lending Club named corporate controller Bradley Coleman interim CFO.
In May, Lending Club’s founder and then-CEO, Renaud Laplanche, resigned amid an internal probe into a botched loan sale that revealed weaknesses in controls.
The city had asked the developer of the popular “Pokémon Go” smartphone game to remove the creatures and sites that appeared in the park by last weekend, when a solemn annual ceremony was held to mark the anniversary of the atomic bombing that killed 140,000 people in the final days of World War II.
The PokéStops and gyms, and the clumps of players that they attract, were gone by last Thursday, but the monsters that gamers try to catch were still popping up.
The city sent an email inquiry to San Francisco game developer Niantic, and got a response at 1:56 a.m. Saturday, just six hours before the start of the ceremony.
Starting in 2018, all eight “Harry Potter” films and those from the spinoff series “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will be seen on NBCUniversal stations Syfy and USA, the company announced Monday.
NBC will also acquire the rights to additional Potter source material to use at its Universal theme parks, an increasingly important source of income.
A federal judge has denied Led Zeppelin nearly $800,000 in legal fees and other costs in its defense against claims it stole a riff for the intro to “Stairway to Heaven.”
The trust for the late Randy Wolfe failed to prove Led Zeppelin’s songwriters lifted a passage from an obscure instrumental tune he wrote in the late 1960s.