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Coal traders see end of price rally as China ramps up output

  Bloomberg Coal’s recovery was one of the biggest surprises in commodities this year, but it’s all poised to end as output rises from China, producer of half the world’s supply. After half a decade of declines, European prices rebounded more than 80 percent as China, also the world’s biggest consumer of the fuel, boosted imports. Benchmark month-ahead contracts will ...

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Hefty price, connectivity missteps mar Super Mario

  NEW YORK / AP Super Mario might be running, but a hefty price tag for a mobile game just won’t fly with the masses. The world so far is underwhelmed by “Super Mario Run,” which Nintendo released for the iPhone last week. This is no “Pokemon Go,” which captivated millions of players in their quest to collect digital monsters ...

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Amazon aims to blur lines between game, real life

  AFP On Amazon’s streaming game platform Twitch, the world of gaming is being intermingled with real life. A feature unveiled by Amazon called IRL — the acronym for “in real life” — lets people broadcast moments from their lives as part of game play. Amazon called this feature “a new content category designed to both enable and encourage Twitch’s ...

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