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India's top bank SBI says bad loan pressure easing

State Bank of India, the nation's top lender by assets, posted better-than-expected quarterly bad debt levels on Friday and said it now expected an improvement, a long-awaited sign of easing pressure that helped its shares jump over five percent.


BlackBerry cuts jobs worldwide as it consolidates businesses

Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd is cutting jobs across the world, the company said on Friday, as it consolidates its software, hardware and applications business.

‘Advanced Stylus’ for iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Pro, 15-inch MacBook Pro, reveals Apple Patent filing

A patent filing coming from Apple shows they are working on an “advanced stylus” that have 3D features, grip sensors, pressure sensors, and many more. Depending on the use, the stylus would be compatible with the rumored 12.9-inch iPad Pro, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and the new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Developer CD Projekt Red Says Downgraded Visual are Not Intentional; Budget Restrictions is to Blame

CD Projekt Red steadfastly tackles comments coming from critics and gamers about the apparent "downgraded" visuals of the Wticher 3: Wild Hunt. The game developer pointed out that lesser visuals of the game are not intentional as budget restrictions for a succesful multiplatform release is to blame.


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The new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro has Haswell processors, Force Touch trackpads, 2.2 GHz and 2.5 GHz configurations, 16 GB memory, Intel Iris Pro Graphic cards, and a new PCIe-based flash storage. A benchmark test reveals that the Apple laptop can transfer 2,502 MP3 songs in just 14 seconds.
Due to premiere next year, fans of sci-fi adventure film ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Part 1’ should brace themselves as the author herself Veronica Roth has suggested that Tris will still die in the conclusion. Meanwhile, new characters have been added to the sequel. Find out who they are when you read.
Jennifer Lawrence, star of the Hunger Games revealed her interest in extending the series with one more chapter. Possible continuation on the aftermath of the war in District 13 a potential plot?
Citigroup said on Friday it is selling its margin foreign exchange business, including the CitiFX Pro and TradeStream platforms to U.S.-based FXCM and Danish investment bank SAXO Bank.
The contest for Nokia's (NOK1V.HE) maps business has become a three-way race between German carmakers, a consortium including Uber and Baidu, and a third group including China's Tencent and Navinfo, people familiar with the process said.
Oil fell about 2 percent on Friday as a rallying dollar and profit-taking ahead of a long U.S. holiday weekend cut short a two-day run-up in crude prices.
French telecommunications group Altice SA is talking to several banks about raising debt for a potential bid for Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, according to people familiar with the matter.
China's dominant taxi-hailing firm Didi Kuaidi will spend 1 billion yuan ($161.39 million) on promotions, the company said on Friday, in an aggressive expansion that will help lure in riders and fend of rivals like U.S. firm Uber Technologies Inc.
A group of 18 mostly Democratic U.S. senators on Friday urged the Obama administration to stop Royal Dutch Shell's preparations for oil exploration in the Arctic, saying the region has a severely limited capacity to respond to accidents.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was clearer than ever on Friday that the central bank was poised to raise interest rates this year, as the U.S. economy was set to bounce back from an early-year slump and as headwinds at home and abroad waned.