HELSINKI : Japan’s Sega Sammy Holdings Inc has agreed to launch an offer for Finland’s Rovio Entertainment, the maker of the Angry Birds mobile game, for 706 million euros ($775.8 million), the companies said in a joint statement on Monday. Tokyo-based Sega will offer 9.25 euros per share for Rovio, […]
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TOKYO, April 15 — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated from a port in Wakayama after a blast was heard, but he was unharmed in the incident, local media reported today. Several reports, including by Kyodo news agency, said an apparent “smoke bomb” had been thrown but there were […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday (Apr 14). Musk, who is already the boss of Twitter and Tesla, was listed as director of X.AI Corporation founded on Mar 9, a […]
NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump says he’s not making much money from his social media network but estimates it is worth between US$5 million and US$25 million, according to his personal financial disclosure form filed Friday (Apr 14). He owns about 90 per cent of his social media company, […]
LONDON: Frank Lampard claims Chelsea’s frantic fixture schedule is damaging his bid to solve his struggling team’s problems. Lampard is in charge at Chelsea until the end of the season after the Blues legend returned to replace the sacked Graham Potter last week. But the 44-year-old has had limited time […]
Three people were arrested in connection with homophobic and discriminatory chants made during an English soccer match on Saturday between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Chelsea, the Wolves said. Both teams and the Premier League condemned the chants directed at Chelsea supporters during the game, which the Wolves won 1-0 at home. […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week when the US president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord. Having helped broker the 1998 deal, the United States remains an influential voice […]
TOKYO: The Bank of Japan will likely modify or end its bond yield control policy due to increasing side-effects such as the hit to financial institutions’ profits, former deputy governor Hiroshi Nakaso told a newspaper interview published on Sunday (Apr 9). The massive stimulus deployed by Haruhiko Kuroda, whose term […]
WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday called on China to show restraint as Beijing launched military drills around Taiwan, stressing that Washington was ready to meet its security commitments in Asia. “Our channels of communication with the PRC remain open and we have consistently urged restraint and no change to the […]
PHNOM PENH: Vietnam will try its best to defend both men’s and women’s football championship titles at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32) in Cambodia, said General Secretary of the Vietnam Football Federation Duong Nghiep Khoi. In response to the press on the results of draws for Vietnam […]