New York state is offering a unique pilot English language learning program that works through phone calls and text messages. Candelaria Lopez a Mexican immigrant, living in the United States for 20 years, was pretty much only comfortable saying “Hi”. It was hard for her to find the energy to sit through a 3-hour session after her long days as a farmworker in a New York’s Hudson Valley region.
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Ford invests $1.3B to support production of 2017 Ford F-Series Super Duty
Ford will invest $1.3 billion in its Kentucky Truck Plant to support the production of its 2017 Ford F-Series Super Duty truck.
Japan state-fund mulls picking stake in Sharp Corp
Japan state-backed fund is keen on acquiring stakes in Sharp Corporation for Yen 200 billion ($1.63 billion). Sharp Corp recorded Yen 50 billion operating loss for the first half of 2015. The LCD business unit of Sharp Corp is a major contributor to the losses. Sharp is planning to spin off LCD business unit and later it may consider stake selling, according to media reports.
Spotify is now the number one music streaming service globally
Spotify is now the world's most popular streaming music service, according to a new report from app analytics firm App Annie. The report also disclosed that Spotify has defeated ts biggest competitor; Pandora in terms of active users, downloads and revenue.
Facebook plans to set up its first Asian data center in Taiwan
Facebook plans to build its first Asian data center in Changhua County, Taiwan. The company plans to invest $300 million for the data center that will sit on 20 hectares of land.
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Tony Goldwyn previewed the impact of Olivia's abortion in the coming weeks of Scandal. In light of this development, Planned Parenthood released a statement praising the creator's boldness in addressing the controversial subject.
The Android 6.0 Marshmallow is confirmed to arrive on HTC One M9, HTC One M8, HTC One M9+, HTC One E9+, HTC One E9, HTC One ME, HTC One E8, HTC One M8 EYE, HTC One Butterfly 3, HTC Desire 826, HTC One 820 and HTC Desire 816 units soon.
‘Iron Man 4’ is a planned action-adventure film that may feature the return of Robert Downey Jr. in the title role. The actor remains unconfirmed for a fourth installment in the Marvel cinematic series. Meanwhile, a deleted scene from ‘Ant-Man’ allegedly holds an Easter egg for the next film’s plot.
‘Silence’ is an upcoming film based on the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo. Leading actors Liam Neeson and Andrew Garfield wrapped filming in Taiwan with director Martin Scorsese and is now currently in post-production. The filmmaker also extended his deal with Paramount Pictures for the release of future films.
Ubisoft has just rolled out Assassin's Creed Syndicate first update for PC offering a sizeable amount of fixes to address performance bugs and adding serious improvement to the game's over-all gameplay. The new patch is available now for download starting December 1st.
Mafia 3, the sequel to the well-received franchise, has been confirmed to be in development by Hangar 13 and slated to arrive sometime next year. But fans might be able to get their hands on the new title sooner than expected and experience the fun in April 2016 slightly ahead of Battleborn release date.
343 Industries' Halo 5: Guardians is expecting a new update this month, though still without a certain release date. With it, a number of action-packed features are awaiting to be delivered, with a hint of Master Chief in it.
WWE 2K16 is already made available to console users, but those that await the PC version cannot say the same. That being said, followers of the series may soon be irate that their hardware may not yet get what is due to it.
There is still no word from Netflix on the release date of "Narcos" Season 2. Fans are left to speculate on their own what Season 2 would look like.
