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A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Aug. 1, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThree members of Intel’s board of directors will not stand for reelection in May, the company said in a filing on Thursday.Omar Ishrak, former CEO of Medtronic; Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, a doctor and philanthropist; and Tsu-Jae King Liu, the dean of the college of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will retire from the board at Intel’s annual meeting in May.Intel has nominated 11 directors, who all currently serve on the board, including new CEO Lip-Bu Tan.The…
Listen to article The District and Sessions Court in Islamabad on Friday granted bail to journalist Waheed Murad who had been arrested in a case registered under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). Murad was presented in court on today after completing a two-day physical remand, Express News reported. Officials from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) produced him before Judicial Magistrate Abbas Shah, who ordered that Murad be sent to jail on judicial remand after the hearing. During the hearing, Judicial Magistrate Abbas Shah inquired about the material recovered by the FIA, to which Waheed Murad’s lawyer, Iman Mazari, stated that…
Martinez was absent from Spain’s internationals, leading Osasuna to insist he should have sat out LaLiga encounter.Osasuna have filed an appeal with the Spanish football federation (RFEF) stating Barcelona should not have fielded defender Inigo Martinez in their LaLiga game over a technicality, as he sat out Spain’s matches with an injury. Martinez, who withdrew from the Spain squad for their Nations League games due to a swollen right knee, played the full 90 minutes in Barcelona’s 3-0 win on Thursday, which moved the league leaders three points clear in LaLiga. “The club understands that the participation of Inigo Martinez…
CoreWeave Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Friday, March 28, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIt wasn’t supposed to go down like this.The Trump presidency was set to usher in a rush of money to the markets, spurred by a new era of deregulation and lower taxes that would lead high-valued tech companies off the sidelines and onto public exchanges after a four-year lull in initial public offerings.Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said in January that he sensed a “more constructive kind of optimism” and that the IPO…
Arthur Hayes, chief executive officer of BitMEX, speaks during the Consensus: Invest event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has granted pardons to three co-founders of the BitMEX global cryptocurrency exchange, CNBC has learned.The co-founders, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo and Samuel Reed, previously pled guilty to one count of violating the Bank Secrecy Act related to failure to maintain anti-money laundering and know-your-customer programs.The trio received criminal sentences of probation and were ordered to pay civil fines totaling $30 million related to a lawsuit by the…
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with representatives of the international business community at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) — China has been and will remain an ideal, secure, and promising destination for foreign investors, Chinese President Xi Jinping said while meeting with representatives of the international business community in Beijing on Friday.Xi pointed out that the country, which is on a Chinese path to modernization in all respects, has been a major contributor to and anchor of stability for global growth for many years.Committed to the…
Listen to article The Punjab police have arrested the prime suspect in the alleged gang-rape of a woman near the Faisalabad motorway, police said on Friday. The suspect, identified as Ali Sher, was apprehended within hours of the incident, according to police. According to the First Information Report (FIR), the incident occurred on March 25, 2025, in Chak No 62 JB Channan, when armed men intercepted a couple traveling on a motorcycle. A case was registered under robbery and sexual assault charges. The assailants allegedly robbed the victims before sexually assaulting the woman in front of her husband. The police have conducted…
Kyiv to assess US proposal on minerals deal, noting major differences from earlier framework shared in bilateral talks.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that a new proposal that would give the United States access to Ukraine’s critical minerals differs significantly from the previous draft proposed by Washington, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported. Addressing a press briefing on Friday, Zelenskyy emphasised that the proposal, which was formally submitted to his office, will be compared with earlier plans shared with Deputy Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko in bilateral talks with US officials. “The framework has been changed. Let us study this framework, and then we…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk boards Air Force One with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) as they departs for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, U.S., March 22, 2025. Nathan Howard | ReutersElon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values the artificial intelligence company at $80 billion and the social media company at $33 billion.”xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk, the world’s richest person, wrote in a post on X. “Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute,…
Carlos Watson, co-founder of Ozy Media, speaks with press after his sentencing hearing at Brooklyn Federal Court on December 16, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump commuted the criminal fraud sentence of Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson on Friday, just as Watson was due to begin serving a 116-month prison term in California for his multi-million-dollar scheme.Trump also commuted the sentence of probation imposed on Ozy Media for its related conviction in the case, according to a source familiar with the situation.Watson was convicted at trial in Brooklyn federal court in last July of…