U.S. factory activity failed to gain steam in April after slowing for five straight months and demand for automobiles softened, suggesting the economy was struggling to find momentum after growth almost stalled in the first quarter.
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Shell signs $15.3 billion bridge loan
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) has agreed a 10.07 billion pound ($15.28 billion) bridge loan from a group of relationship banks backing its 47 billion pound takeover of smaller rival BG Group (BG.L), the company announced on Friday.
Rocket Internet cuts stakes in two lending sites: Spiegel
Rocket Internet, a tech investor focused on emerging market ventures, has reduced its stakes in two of its Europe-focused financial services start-ups after facing setbacks there, Germany's Spiegel magazine said.
LinkedIn follows Twitter, shocks social media investors
Another day, another shock for investors in social media stocks. Shares of LinkedIn Corp, operator of the most popular social network for professionals, fell 20 percent in early trading on Friday, wiping out more than $6 billion of market value, after the company slashed its full-year forecast.
U.S., UK, China manufacturing all in slow lane
Manufacturing activity growth remained sluggish in some of the world's major economies in April, suggesting that global economic growth remains "moderate and uneven," as the International Monetary Fund described it in its World Economic Outlook in April.
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U.S. stocks bounced back sharply on Friday as investors snapped up beaten-down shares in the healthcare and technology sectors, and as data gave further signs of a pickup in the economy.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday said first-quarter profit rose 10 percent, and operating results easily beat forecasts, boosted by its railroad and insurance businesses and gains from derivatives.
After being leaked out last December and the leaks being confirmed to be genuine, Assassin's Creed: Victory is apparently on the way to a Q4 2015 release.While the leak was verified, the formal announcement regarding the game is expected to be done at the Electronic Expo (E3) in Los Angeles on June 16-18.
Meet Alex, the newest playable character for Minecraft.Oh, and that's a she.She's far from being a new character, though. Alex has been around for a year, along with other female skins as paid skin packs or free mods. Now, she's officially free and an alternative default character randomly assigned to PC players at the start of the game. For the console version of Minecraft, she is a downloadable skin available for free.
Game developer Respawn recently teased Titanfall 2, their follow up to their spring 2014 first-person shooter game.
Bloodborne patch 1.03 has been recently released last March 24, 2015 on PS4, and conclusively received worldwide critical acclaim. Bloodborne is the latest addition to the Souls game series, developed by From Software. The game comes from the creators of legendary games Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. And because fans went over the moon with the release of Bloodborne, many gamers have given updates on how to get started with the game, and how to upgrade players' performance through the newest grim adventure
The eagerly awaited Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord PC release is hinted to launch Xbox One and PS4 consoles, Turkish news outlet, Turuncu Levye has revealed.
Bandai Namco has revealed that The Dragon Ball Xenoverse DLC Pack 3 will allow the hard core anime fans to enjoy new transformation of Goku, Vegeta and Frieza and an overload of exciting features. It contains five parallel quests, eight master quests, seven Z-souls, 14 new moves and two costumes, Turtle Hermit and Gohan's Tracksuit.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) may ditch a plan to return 4 billion pounds ($6.1 billion) to investors, some analysts believe, as the drugmaker prepares to set out its vision for the reshaped group and a new chairman takes the helm.
