Google in Talks to Buy Mobile-Payments Company Softcard: Report
Google Inc is in talks to buy mobile-payments company Softcard, technology news website TechCrunch reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal could help pair Google with the largest U.S. wireless carriers to battle Apple Inc and its new Apple Pay service, TechCrunch... read more »
US oil spill finding could cost BP $13.7bn in fines
A US judge has said more oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico following the deadly rig explosion in 2010 than BP estimated — a decision that could potentially cost the oil giant $13.7bn District judge Carl Barbier ruled in New Orleans that 3.19m barrels were discharged into the Gulf after the rig... read more »
Boko Haram: ‘For five kilometres, I kept standing on dead bodies̵...
Washington: It’s a “brief” war, which is to say that media reports on the brutal, dehumanising violence as Boko Haram consolidates its hold on a nation-sized slice of Nigeria invariably are “briefs” because it is being fought in a “too” area – too... read more »
Saudi Arabia: Woman dragged through street, beheaded for ‘murdering&#...
In what could send chills down one’s spine, a Burmese woman, who resided in Saudi Arabia, was publicly beheaded in Islam’s holy city of Mecca on allegations that she had killed her stepdaughter, reports stated on Saturday. In a video which was posted on YouTube, Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb... read more »
