By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Shivansh Tiwary CHICAGO (Reuters) -Delta Air Lines on Tuesday lifted its second-quarter profit outlook and forecast full-year earnings at the high end of its prior guidance on sustained travel demand. Shares rose about 2% in morning trade as the company also revised upward estimates for free cash flow this year….
TOKYO (Reuters) – What would society look like if cyborg body parts were freely available for use like roadside rental bicycles? Masahiko Inami’s team at the University of Tokyo have sought to find out by creating wearable robotic arms. Inami’s team is developing a series of technologies rooted in the idea of “jizai”, an Japanese…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Tatiana Bautzer and Julia Harte NEW YORK (Reuters) -Clad in a blue jumpsuit and dangling from the side of a skyscraper 1,200 feet above New York City, billionaire Richard Branson urged viewers on Twitter last week to live life to the fullest and try new things. As the founder of space tourism…
(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday it expects full-year profit per share at the high-end of its prior forecast on sustained travel demand. The company earlier said it expects to report 2023 adjusted profit in the range of about $5 per share to $6 per share. (Reporting by Shivansh Tiwary in Bengaluru; Editing…
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Unless EU aspirant Montenegro adopts a new economic growth strategy that would boost productivity and human capital, its incomes will not converge with average EU levels in the next 40 years, the World Bank warned on Tuesday. The tiny Adriatic country, which started EU accession negotiations in 2012, hopes to speed up…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Publishers Clearing House (PCH), which offers sweepstakes where people can win thousands of dollars per week for life, has agreed to pay $18.5 million and change its business practices to settle allegations it misled consumers about its contests, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Monday. The FTC had accused PCH of…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Apple Inc and Broadcom Inc to revive their challenges to Caltech data-transmission patents in a patent infringement case in which the university’s earlier $1.1 billion jury verdict against the companies was thrown out. The justices turned away an appeal by…
By Samrhitha A (Reuters) – Meta Platforms plans to cut off access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada once a new law requiring internet giants to pay news publishers takes effect, arguing news has no economic value to the company and that its users do not use the platform for…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a North Carolina public charter school’s defense of its blocked requirement that girls wear skirts – a student uniform policy that its founder explained is aimed at treating women like “fragile vessels.” Turning away an appeal by Charter Day School Inc, the…
By Hilary Russ and Caroline Valetkevitch (Reuters) -Workers at dozens of U.S. Starbucks locations held strikes on Sunday to express their outrage over accusations by the baristas’ union that managers at several U.S. cafes removed rainbow flags and decorations supporting LGBTQ+ Pride month. About a dozen Starbucks workers picketed outside New York’s Astor Place location…
