Amazon.com reported a record-breaking holiday season as shoppers loaded their online baskets with items from Echo speakers to Calvin Klein clothes.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX capped a record-setting year on Sunday when it launched a rocket carrying a new GPS III satellite for the US Air Force.
The Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 3% on Friday, capping its worst week since the financial crisis. It’s now fallen 22% since its August record.
The richest people on Earth lost $511-billion (R7.4-trillion) this year after record first-half gains were obliterated by a succession of bruising market selloffs.
Shares in Tencent jumped as much as 4.2% after Chinese media reported that regulators have resumed approving games, signalling a potential end to a hiatus that’s chilled the world’s biggest gaming industry.
Nasa’s new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet’s dusty red surface. The milestone occurred less than a month after Mars InSight’s touchdown.
Apple is pulling older models of its iPhone from German stores after losing two patent cases brought by chip maker Qualcomm, the company said.
Spiralling losses in technology shares have pushed the Nasdaq Composite Index to the precipice of becoming the first major US stock gauge to enter a bear market since 2009.
Facebook shares dropped following a New York Times report that the social media company allowed more than 150 companies access to more users’ personal data than it had disclosed.
Qualcomm general counsel Don Rosenberg said Apple needs to take seriously a Chinese court’s ban on the sale of some iPhone models.