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Electronic Arts’ “Battlefield 6” has hit all-time highs for franchise sales during the first three days of its launch, selling over seven million copies, the video game publisher said on Thursday.EA was betting on the latest “Battlefield” title to restore the franchise’s reputation and loosen the dominance of “Call of Duty,” published by Microsoft-owned Activision Blizzard, in the first-person shooter genre.”Battlefield 6″ was launched on October 10, weeks after EA agreed to a $55 billion sale to a Saudi-backed investor group in a deal fueled by its prized gaming portfolio.The game had over 172 million matches played online and accumulated…
[LONDON] HSBC Holdings is not exposed to the collapse of scandal-hit auto-parts supplier First Brands Group, whose bankruptcy has left some of the biggest players on Wall Street facing hundreds of millions of US dollars in potential losses.“We were not involved directly in First Brands and don’t know how much due diligence was done,” Michael Roberts, HSBC’s head of corporate and institutional banking, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday (Oct 16). Roberts warned that fraudsters were “getting better” and that the banking industry needed to up its game.“You’re going to have to respond by being much better…
With seven Super Bowl titles and three MVPs, no player has had a more decorated career in NFL history than Tom Brady. But there’s only one moment from Brady’s playing career that made him truly seem immortal, and it came in the third quarter of a regular-season game. When the New England Patriots made their first trip to AT&T Stadium to face the Dallas Cowboys in Week 5 of the 2015 season, Brady got his first taste of the unusual sunlight that beams into the building. The tough playing conditions created a memorable photo, though, with Christian Peterson of Getty Images…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday he will withhold $40 million from California because it is the only state that is failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers.An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn on Aug. 12 found what Duffy called significant failures in the way California is enforcing rules that took effect in June after one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders. California had issued the driver a commercial license, but these English rules predate the crash. Truckers are supposed to be disqualified if they can’t demonstrate…
Consumer finance fintech Upgrade said on Thursday it raised $165 million in its latest funding round, nearly four years after its last external financing during the height of the 2021 fintech boom.The round valued Upgrade at $7.3 billion pre-money, according to a source familiar with the matter, a 21.7 per cent premium to its previous valuation. “We’re probably 12 to 18 months away from an IPO, so we wanted to give the team members some liquidity before IPO,” Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche told Reuters in an interview.Fintech startup investment surged in 2021 on low rates and abundant capital, but cooled…
President Donald Trump said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin began a “lengthy” phone call Thursday morning.The call comes a day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House, as Kyiv seeks more U.S. support in its war against Russia.”I am speaking to President Putin now,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post at 11:21 a.m. ET.”The conversation is ongoing, a lengthy one, and I will report the contents, as will President Putin, at its conclusion. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”Trump this week said that he is considering sending…
London — Thousands of people in the United Kingdom have filed a joint legal claim estimated to be worth more than £1 billion ($1.34 billion) against Johnson & Johnson, accusing the U.S. pharmaceutical giant of selling baby powder that it knew was contaminated with carcinogenic asbestos.The claim involves more than 3,000 people who developed various forms of cancer and other diseases and is based on internal Johnson & Johnson memos and scientific reports. The company has long fought thousands of similar cases in the United States, and despite winning some appeals, in June last year it agreed to pay $700 million in…
In partnership with GOAL.com.The end of the October international window is upon us, club football fans. Get ready for four more weeks of Premier League fun before we’re lulled back into the November break. Fortunately, there’s non-stop action before then to look forward to, beginning with some mouth-watering fixtures this coming weekend, including Manchester United’s trip to Liverpool.Elsewhere, Chelsea have the opportunity to inflict more misery on a down-on-their-luck Nottingham Forest, while Manchester City welcome a Jack Grealish-less Everton to the Etihad Stadium and Arsenal look record a victory at Craven Cottage for the first time in three seasons when…
Microsoft on Thursday rolled out a series of artificial intelligence upgrades to Windows 11 that would make its Copilot AI assistant more appealing to users by making it easier to automate tasks and connect with services across devices.Users can now use the wake word “Hey Copilot” to activate the AI assistant and execute voice commands in a new opt-in feature on any Windows 11 PC, Microsoft said.The company is also expanding Copilot Vision – which can analyze content on users’ screens and answer related questions – to all markets where Copilot is offered. Microsoft said it would also launch a…
And to China she says “be careful, do not provoke other countries” in ways where they may see you as a threat[WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund’s chief sent a message to countries to stay calm amid renewed trade tensions between US and China.“Our message to everybody is: be calm,” said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in an interview on Thursday (Oct 16) with Bloomberg Television. “And to China: be careful, do not provoke other countries” in ways where they may see you as a threat.The world economy has shown resilience in the face of the US tariffs shock this year…