March, 2017

• 23 March

  Tourists in UK and Italy boost Hermes sales

  

    Bloomberg Terrorist attacks in France and the decline of the pound are drawing tourists to London and Rome, bolstering French handbag maker Hermes International SCA as it bounces back from weakness in the domestic market and China. Hermes reported a 10 percent increase in full-year profit, citing a lift in sales from the pound’s fall in the wake of ...

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• 23 March

  MallfortheWorld unveils ecommerce platform to ME

  

    DUBAI / Emirates Business ‘MallfortheWorld’ announced that consumers in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar will now have access to over 150 of the leading retailers in the US through its app, marking its foray into the Middle East. MallfortheWorld is the parent company of the award-winning global e-commerce giant MallforAfrica. Growing at a steady rate, the app is available ...

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• 23 March

  Apple woos developers with concessions in app store revamp

  

    Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s App Store has turned countless software developers into millionaires since its launch almost a decade ago. But working with the famously controlling company has often been frustrating. Apps were rejected with little explanation, and Apple has been stingy about sharing customer data that could have helped developers improve their products. Apple can no longer afford to ...

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• 23 March

  Google Maps users can now ‘broadcast’ their movements

  

    SAN FRANCISCO / AP Google Maps users will soon be able to broadcast their movements to friends and family — the latest test of how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in an era of rampant sharing. The location-monitoring feature will be in an update to the Google Maps mobile app, which is already installed on most of ...

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• 23 March

  A camping stove that can recharge your gadgets

    Bloomberg A new camping stove is using mankind’s oldest communal activity—cooking over fire—to power our newest communal obsession: sharing pictures of your meal on social media. The BioLite CampStove 2, available for $130, employs thermoelectric technology to turn cooking heat into electricity. It can run the internal fan that turbocharges your fire, and via the built-in USB outlet, power ...

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• 23 March

  YouTube losing major advertisers upset with videos

  

    SAN FRANCISCO / AP AT&T, Verizon and several other major advertisers are suspending their marketing campaigns on Google’s YouTube site after discovering their brands have been appearing alongside videos promoting terrorism and other unsavory subjects. The spreading boycott confronts Google with a challenge that threatens to cost it hundreds of millions of dollars. But that diverse selection periodically allows ...

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• 23 March

  Swiss startup bringing AI to music label business

  

    Bloomberg A Swiss-Swedish startup wants to bring the power of big data and social-media analysis to the music business, offering artists instant insight into where and how their songs are playing so they can market more effectively to fans. Utopia Music Group is being billed as a new kind of record company by its founder, Mattias Hjelmstedt. Like an ...

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• 23 March

  What makes this temple different!

  

    BANGKOK / AP It’s more than eight times bigger than Vatican City and twice the size of Cambodia’s ancient Angkor Wat, making it quite possibly the world’s biggest religious complex. Yet few non-Buddhists have heard of Wat Dhammakaya, a sprawling, extravagant temple compound north of Bangkok that has been at the center of a high-profile power struggle between monks ...

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• 22 March

  Car rampage, knife attack leave two dead in London

  

    LONDON / AP A vehicle mowed down pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge, killing at least one woman and leaving others with injuries described as catastrophic. Around the same time on Wednesday, a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a police officer and was shot on the grounds outside Britain’s Parliament, sending the compound into lockdown. Authorities said they were treating the attacks ...

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• 22 March

  Dozens dead or missing from airstrike in IS-held north Syria

    BEIRUT / AP Syrian activists said on Wednesday that dozens of people were killed or missing after an airstrike the day before leveled a school near the IS-held city of Raqqa where displaced families had sought refuge. The activist-run group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said some 50 families had been sheltering at the school in the northern Syrian ...

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