Новости за 10.06.2016

Cost of revenue -- and competition This week, Apple announced that it would reduce the 30 percent "app tax" it charges to companies...

It already was known that the expired (for now) offer made by the Broncos to linebacker Von Miller includes $39.5 million in cash payments over the first two years. It’s also known that Miller asked for more than $70 million to be paid out over three years. Here’s something that wasn’t previously known (as far…

Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Chillupar Rajesh Tripathi left the party on Thursday evening and sent his resignation to Mayawati.

The expansion of Medicaid in many states has driven down the average amount of debt sent to collection agencies in many areas.

Gordie Howe, who died today, was so much a legend—Mr. Hockey!—and so often referenced as the greatest player of all time, even lending his Number 9 to Wayne Gretzky (who turned it into his own 99), that it is surprisingly hard to put his achievements into clear relief. His persistence was such that, in memory, it overwhelms his peculiar excellence. The persistence was pretty startling. He played until he was fifty-two, long enough to skate professionally alongside his own sons. His accumulated stats include 2,421 games... Читать дальше...

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Someone accidentally fired it at his face.

Manager Chris Coleman says Wales "must perform" to enjoy their historic opening Euro 2016 match against Slovakia.

Shipwright Artificer Rakesh Kumar and Mohandas Kolambkar, an employee of M/s Royal Marine succumbed due to gas inhalation.

– Seven bank workers conspired among themselves to steal over N30, 000,000 from the dead person – One of them pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced today for 39 years in jail Olawale Garuba, a worker of the unnamed bank, will spend 39 years in prison after being convicted of stealing over N30, 000,000 from the dormant account of a deceased customer. […]

Jacob Heilbrunn

Politics, Americas

The House GOP’s new foreign-policy agenda leads nowhere good.

Talleyrand once remarked of the Bourbons, “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” Something similar might be said about the new twenty-three-page House Republican foreign-policy blueprint. It’s called “A Better Way: Our Vision For A Confident America” and is being touted by House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan’s apparent objective is to prod Donald Trump to embrace the report. Читать дальше...

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As the champions of "software is eating the world", Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced Friday that it has closed its latest fund: a whopping $1.5 billion. 

Founded in 2009 by VCs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the venture firm has now grown to more than 125 people. Its investments include big hitters like Lyft, Airbnb, Slack, and Pinterest. 

The new fund, Fund V, will continue to invest in seed, early stage, and mid-stage tech companies ... Читать дальше...

Octomore, a “super heavily peated” whisky, is designed to stand out on its own.

University officials say $12 million will be used to hire faculty and add courses at the school's Center for Data Science, and $3 million will support research at its Cybersecurity Institute. At an event announcing the donation, Massachusetts Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said it will help make the state a national leader in cybersecurity.

Contrary to his claims of inexperience with alcohol, court records show that Brock Turner was drinking and partying before entering university.

The Syrian army took control over an oil pumping station and the Al-Tabka power plant in the Raqqa province, a local source told Sputnik on Friday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Eleven members of the same family, including two children, were killed in the central Mexican state of Puebla when gunmen burst into their home, authorities said on Friday.

Libby Kane / Business Insider

I've written before about how my favorite money-saving travel tip isn't poring over flight websites or negotiating with hotels: It's traveling in shoulder season.

By choosing to travel six to eight weeks before or after high season ("shoulder season"), I save money on flights, accommodations, car rentals, and most everything else by making one decision and never thinking about it again.

It seems obvious, but a lot of people don't do it. There's a good reason why... Читать дальше...

The Finest

Bradley Farrell, founder of the new, internet-age-friendly auction house The Finest Automobile Auctions, can certainly prove his classic-car chops.

A collector specializing in pre-war Bugatti's, he will show one of his cars at the Pebble Beach Concours de'Elegance, one of the classic car world's elite events this summer.

"The sound of a Bugatti, the visceral experience of a Bugatti. The engineering is in my opinion unsurpassed," Farrell told Business Insider. 

Arthur Simpson-Kent was hiding out in a palm-lined cove in Ghana when he was arrested over the murder of his partner Sian Blake and their two young boys.

In the third-to-last paragraph of Brian Moynihan's 2014 shareholder letter , the Bank of America CEO rolled out the bank's current PR campaign, which emphasizes the importance of "delivering responsible growth." He doubled down on the message in his 2015 letter , which was released three months ago and dedicated to flushing out the contours of this point.