(Bloomberg) — Western Digital Corp. has restarted talks with Japan’s Kioxia Holdings Corp. in a deal that could unite two technology storage providers, according to people familiar with the matter. Most Read from Bloomberg While the structure of a potential deal remains fluid, the parties are discussing merging into one publicly traded company, said the … Read more
Sundry Photography/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ:WDC) rose 8% in after hours trading after a report that the memory-chip firm has resumed merger talks with Japan’s Kioxia Holdings. The parties are discussing merging into one public company, according to a Bloomberg report, which cited people familiar. The talks resumed late last year … Read more
Western-made artillery pieces sent to Ukraine are constantly breaking down or being damaged in combat, and this has become a problem for the US Department of Defense, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing sources. To address the issue, the Pentagon, which has provided Kiev with hundreds of the weapons, has reportedly set up … Read more
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with MSNBC Host Ayman Mohyeldin about Qatar, the first Arab country to host the World Cup, now under scrutiny for using immigrant laborers and denying LGBTQ rights. Source link
Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast top the European Film Academy’s Excellence Awards honoring achievement in the arts and crafts categories, the winners of which were announced on Wednesday. Belfast won best European Production Design for Jim Clay, whose credits include Children Of Men, for which he won a … Read more
Russia has threatened to restrict gas supplies to western Europe through the only pipeline still connecting the regions, warning that it could lower flows through Ukraine from next week. Gazprom, the state-backed Russian gas pipeline monopoly, accused Ukraine on Tuesday of taking gas meant for Moldova from lines running through the country, and warned that … Read more
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has lashed out at critics of the Qatar World Cup, accusing European countries of “hypocrisy” and saying they were in no position to hand down “moral lessons”. In a combative 90-minute press conference on the eve of the World Cup in Doha, Infantino said much of the criticism aimed at the … Read more
The head of Japan’s travel agents’ association has warned that the post-pandemic recovery of the country’s tourism industry will hinge on whether it can reshape itself to cater to the spending habits of western travellers, in the continuing absence of tourists from China. With the yen falling sharply against the dollar, Hiroyuki Takahashi, chair of … Read more
Refresh for updates. Over two weeks after the final police report on the fatal shooting of Rust DP Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin last October was handed over to the local D.A., the document has been made public. Amidst dense listing of events and inventory from local police, the FBI and others, the 540 page … Read more
Three months ago, as Ukrainian troops were struggling to advance against Russian forces in the south, the military’s headquarters in Kyiv quietly deployed a valuable new weapon to the battlefield. It was not a rocket launcher, cannon or another kind of heavy arms from Western allies. Instead, it was a real-time information system known as … Read more