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Meta Platforms has acquired Manus, a Singapore-headquartered maker of general-purpose artificial intelligence agents, capping a year in which the social media company has accelerated spending and deal-making to strengthen its position in the AI sector. The transaction was announced Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed, but The Wall Street Journal said sources familiar with the […]
PathoCare Holdings, a United States–based diagnostics company, reported that it has obtained a private, third-party tender offer for the secondary purchase of shares held by existing investors. The proposal assigns an implied enterprise value of approximately $1.75 billion, marking the highest valuation the company has recorded to date and extending a series of capital-market transactions […]
Security footage captured an individual bringing a pair of stolen mandolins back to a guitar store and leaving a written apology, according to the limited information released about the incident. The returned instruments had been removed from the shop earlier, and the same person who took them was recorded placing the mandolins inside the store […]
ABC News Live has released a varied slate of video reports and long-form features that range from a historical look at climber Jim Morrison’s landmark Mount Everest achievement to real-time coverage of holiday travel conditions across the United States. The programming, presented as a continuous stream of individual segments, combines breaking news, weather updates, human-interest […]
Silver futures strengthened sharply early Tuesday, recouping part of the losses recorded in the previous session and underscoring the extreme volatility that has characterized precious-metal trading in 2025. Contracts for March delivery rose 5.3% to $74.17 an ounce at 10:30 a.m. in London (5:30 a.m. Eastern), extending the metal’s year-to-date advance to approximately 153%. The […]
New Brunswick, N.J.—Johnson & Johnson has closed the $3.05 billion cash acquisition of Halda Therapeutics, bringing the biotechnology company’s Regulated Induced Proximity Targeting Chimera (RIPTAC) platform and a series of investigational cancer medicines into the healthcare group’s innovative medicine segment. The transaction, completed on 30 December 2025, follows a definitive agreement signed in November. By […]
A weekend house fire in Gaston County, North Carolina, resulted in the death of Dennis Hamlin, father of NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin, and left the driver’s mother, Mary Lou Hamlin, with serious burn injuries, according to information released by county emergency officials. Gaston County firefighters were dispatched at 6:19 p.m. on Sunday to the […]
An estimated 10 million natural Christmas trees are discarded in U.S. landfills each year, according to the Nature Conservancy. Once covered by soil, the trees decompose without oxygen, a process that can take years and release methane and carbon dioxide—gases linked to climate change—that may also leach into groundwater. Homeowners looking to avoid that outcome have […]
Silver prices reversed course dramatically on Monday, posting their steepest single-day decline in almost four years only hours after reaching an all-time high. March silver futures sank 8.7% to settle at $70.46 per ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, erasing a portion of the precious metal’s extraordinary advance in 2025. […]
Accenture plc, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, remains one of the world’s largest providers of management consulting, technology services and outsourcing solutions. The company operates through two principal business segments—consulting and outsourcing—and structures its client offerings around five industry verticals: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Products; Health & Public Service; and Resources. On 29 December […]
SoftBank Group Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase DigitalBridge Group Inc., an investment firm focused on data-center assets, for approximately $4 billion in cash. The Japanese technology conglomerate announced on Monday that it will pay $16 per share for all outstanding common stock, representing a 15 percent premium to DigitalBridge’s closing price […]
Dividend payments, frequently overshadowed by day-to-day price movements, continue to play a central role in the overall performance of U.S. equities. Market data from recent years illustrate how cash distributions can cushion losses in weak environments and enhance gains when share prices climb. In 2024, the S&P 500 delivered a total return of more than 24 percent, […]