BLACKPINK members renew contract, boosting shares in label YG Entertainment

BLACKPINK members renew contract, boosting shares in label YG Entertainment

[1/2]Lisa (Lalisa Manoban), Rose (Roseanne Park), Jisoo Kim and Jennie Kim, from the K-Pop band BLACKPINK pose with their Honorary MBEs (Members of the Order of the British Empire) at Buckingham Palace, London, Britain November 22, 2023. Victoria Jones/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights SEOUL, Dec 6 (Reuters) – South Korea’s YG Entertainment Inc … Read more

Take-Two’s Rockstar Games unveils ‘GTA VI’ trailer, to release game in 2025

Take-Two’s Rockstar Games unveils ‘GTA VI’ trailer, to release game in 2025

Grand Theft Auto The Trilogy by Take-Two Interactive Software Inc is seen for sale in a store in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., February 7, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Dec 4 (Reuters) – Rockstar Games, owned by Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO.O), on Monday released a trailer of the latest installment of its … Read more

Britain’s Sunak cancels meeting with Greek PM in row over Parthenon sculptures

Britain’s Sunak cancels meeting with Greek PM in row over Parthenon sculptures

ATHENS/LONDON, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accused his British counterpart Rishi Sunak of cancelling a scheduled meeting in London on Tuesday in a diplomatic row over the status of the Parthenon Sculptures. Greece has repeatedly asked the British Museum to permanently return the 2,500-year-old sculptures that British diplomat Lord Elgin removed … Read more

Crypto firm Tether says it has frozen $225 mln linked to human trafficking

Crypto firm Tether says it has frozen $225 mln linked to human trafficking

[1/2]Tether logo is seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Crypto firm Tether said on Monday that it had frozen $225 million worth of its cryptocurrency which it said had been linked to a human trafficking group in Southeast Asia. The U.S. Secret … Read more

Amazon cuts games unit jobs in broader restructuring

Amazon cuts games unit jobs in broader restructuring

The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque, northern France, January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Acquire Licensing Rights Nov 13 (Reuters) – Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has cut around 180 jobs in its games division, at least the second round of layoffs in under a week by the online retailer and digital … Read more

Apple co-founder Wozniak suffers possible stroke in Mexico -local media

Apple co-founder Wozniak suffers possible stroke in Mexico -local media

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, talks to people during a launch event in Cupertino, California, U.S., September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights MEXICO CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized in Mexico City on Wednesday due to a possible stroke, Mexican media outlets reported, but a TMZ report … Read more

Scientists unveil recreation of sacrificed Inca maiden in Peru

Scientists unveil recreation of sacrificed Inca maiden in Peru

AREQUIPA, Peru, Oct 24 (Reuters) – The reconstructed head and torso of a young girl likely sacrificed to appease Incan gods was unveiled in Peru on Tuesday, with three-dimensional scans of her mummy helping produce the lifelike recreation more than 500 years after her death. Scientists from both Peru and Poland used digital scans of … Read more

Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

[1/2]The logo of NVIDIA as seen at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, in May of 2022. Courtesy NVIDIA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Oct 23 (Reuters) – Nvidia (NVDA.O) dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel’s longtime stronghold of personal computers. Nvidia has quietly begun … Read more

As Google pushes deeper into AI, publishers see fresh challenges

As Google pushes deeper into AI, publishers see fresh challenges

NEW YORK, Oct 19 (Reuters) – You may never have to read another news story in your life, if you have artificial intelligence that can digest all the web’s information and serve up a summary on demand. That’s the stuff of nightmares for media barons as Google (GOOGL.O) and others experiment with what’s called generative … Read more

European Commission to step up scrutiny of influencers’ business practices

European Commission to step up scrutiny of influencers’ business practices

European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman//File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights BRUSSELS, Oct 17 (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Tuesday it would step up its scrutiny of the business practices of social media influencers, a market estimated to be worth some 20 billion euros … Read more