By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – China ended two days of war games around Taiwan, in which it simulated attacks with bombers and practiced boarding ships, and Taiwan’s defence ministry detailed on Saturday the surge of Chinese warplanes and warships involved. Chinese state television’s military channel said late on Friday the drills had concluded. A…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing and NASA quelled two technical issues on the company’s Starliner spacecraft, including a “design vulnerability” requiring a temporary workaround, to get the capsule back on track for its first mission carrying two astronauts to space, officials said on Friday. Starliner’s debut crewed mission, a high-stakes test now planned…
(Reuters) -GameStop made nearly $933.4 million by selling 45 million shares, the struggling videogame retailer said on Friday, sending its shares up 15% after the bell. The company had disclosed its share sale plan earlier this month amid a retail buying frenzy sparked by the return on social media of “Roaring Kitty” Keith Gill, whose…
By Michael Erman (Reuters) – Novavax will only be able to offer a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States this autumn if regulators accept the shot it has started manufacturing that targets a variant that was dominant earlier this year, the company said. Novavax’s updated vaccine targets a variant called JN.1, which is in line…
(Reuters) – Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman will support Donald Trump as the former president looks to return to the White House, Axios reported on Friday. Schwarzman, one of the biggest political donors on Wall Street, plans to donate to Trump and various Republican Senate candidates, the report said, citing a statement from the CEO. Long…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Tesla has cut output of its best-selling Model Y electric car by a double-digit percentage number at its Shanghai plant since March, according to industry data and a source. The move is aimed at addressing weakening demand for the U.S. automaker’s aged model in China, its second largest market into which a…
By Bernard Orr and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China’s military started its second day of war games around Taiwan on Friday, with drills to test their ability to “seize power” and control key areas, exercises it has said were launched to punish Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. The two days of drills in the Taiwan Strait…
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Chipmaker Micron Technology owes computer-memory company Netlist $445 million in damages for violating Netlist’s patent rights in memory-module technology for high-performance computing, a U.S. jury said on Thursday. Jurors in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas agreed with Netlist that Micron’s semiconductor-memory products infringe two Netlist…
By Maria Martinez and Christian Kraemer BERLIN (Reuters) – The implementation of the second pillar of the global minimum tax deal is Germany’s priority and further ideas should not be discussed until there is an agreement on the first pillar, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday. “In the second pillar we already have…
(Reuters) -Health tech firm Medtronic beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit and revenue on Thursday, as a pickup in surgical volumes at hospitals lifted demand for its medical devices. Investor expectations around the financial performance of medical devices makers have grown lately, owing to a resurgence in demand as people, especially older adults, opted…
