NewJeans attends the SBS Music Awards in Incheon, South Korea on Dec 25, 2024. The Chosunilbo Jns | Imazins | Getty Images South Korean girl group NewJeans announced today that it will be performing in March under its new name NJZ, amid an ongoing legal dispute with the managing label Ador. Speaking to CNBC on … Read more
An Apple Store in the Jiefangbei commercial district, adorned with a golden apple and snake motif to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Snake, on Jan. 14, 2025 in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Apple shares fell on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators are considering whether to … Read more
Apple’s overall revenue rose by 4% in its first fiscal quarter, but it missed on Wall Street’s iPhone sales expectations and saw sales in China decline 11.1%, the company reported on Thursday. Shares rose nearly 3% after the company gave a forecast for the March quarter. Here’s how Apple did versus LSEG consensus estimates for … Read more
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the first day of in-store sales of Apple’s latest products at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple stock closed down 4% on Thursday, its worst day since Aug. 5, following … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech giant Apple for lackluster innovation efforts and “random rules” in a lengthy podcast interview on Friday. “On the one hand, [the iPhone has] … Read more
Epic immigrant drama “The Brutalist” and surreal narco-musical “Emilia Perez” are big winners at this year’s Golden Globes as prizes have been shared widely across an international crop of films. “The Brutalist” was crowned best film, drama, at the year’s first major showbiz awards gala on Sunday, putting it on course to be a major … Read more
In the late months of 1949, aspiring American writer William S Burroughs evaded gun and drug charges in the United States by bringing his family to Mexico where he planned to study while waiting out the statute of limitations on his crimes. Burroughs’ letters describe the early days after their arrival – settling in the … Read more
An Argentine judge confirmed charges against five people in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction, and ordered preventive prison for two of them for having supplied him with drugs. A judicial officer confirmed Monday the judge’s decision and said that one of the two people ordered … Read more
This aerial picture shows flooded streets and buildings in Thai Nguyen on September 10, 2024, a few days after Super Typhoon Yagi hit northern Vietnam. Xuan Quang | Afp | Getty Images Curtis S. Chin, a former U.S. ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, is managing director of advisory firm RiverPeak Group. Jose B. Collazo … Read more
Indian travelers spent $34.2 billion on outbound travel in 2023, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. But the current level of Indian travel is “minuscule” compared with what’s to come, Alan Watts, Hilton’s Asia-Pacific president, told “Squawk Box Asia” Monday. “The story for India is before us,” he said. “India outbound will be … Read more