Verizon would be close to the acquisition of Yahoo!, as reported by Bloomberg, according to which the parties have come to the stage of "two-negotiation" and that an announcement could come in days.
Earlier this week the offers were evaluated in a range between 4 and 6 billion dollars, with the exception of that of the same telecomunications company that would stop under 4 billion, but excluding the perimeter of purchase patents and real estate properties.
The growth of Netflix users slows and makes sink the share price, which in the after-market comes to losing 15.09%. Netflix ended the second quarter with 1.68 million users in more, of which 1.52 million outside the US and 160.00 on the domestic market. The figures are below expectations, but the company insists the break-even target for 2016 and a profit in 2017.
Deals for Yahoo, the last act. Today final bids for the Internet portal business, which include the search engine, email, advertising and the division of information, are expected. According to sources gathered by the "New York Times", the deadline for submission of bids is scheduled for Monday, while the short list will be examined shortly after the board of the American group that should communicate within short time time for its decisions.
Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, has minimized the impact on the economy Brexit US and confirmed his opinion that this year increases could be two, also three increases in interest rates by the Central Institute of Washington. "The Brexit is positioned at the bottom on my list of risks and I do not expect more than a few tenths of a percent of transitional slowdown in growth", because of this event, he said Harker yesterday evening.
Accounts falling for JPMorgan Chase yet exceeds expectations. In the second quarter, the banking giant reported a net profit of $ 6.2 billion, $ 1.55 per share, compared with 6.29 million, $ 1.54 per share, for the same period last year.
The expectations of analysts have been beaten: they expected profits to $ 1.43 per share. The turnover rose by 2.4% 24,380,000,000. The turnover rose to 25.21 billion from 24.16 billion expected by analysts.
Volkswagen still under fire for Dieselgate: a South Korean executive of the group, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, has been called upon to tampering with data on vehicle emissions and "the question" is therefore officially opened also in South Korea, where other German house manager could soon be questioned by local authorities, from the local head of the Wolfsburg Johannes Thammer home.
Block those who want to use Bitcoin for illegal activities: is the project of the London-based startup Elliptic using instruments that reduce the anonymity of those who use the virtual currency; if it worked, it should help to identify those who trade child pornography. Meanwhile in the US, Coinlab thinks he has found a way to reduce the anonymity of those who use the BTC.
As reported by Reuters, Elliptic has already proved a solid reality in BTC world, and counts among its customers a number of the largest US and European exchanges. The company is also a regular consultant of law enforcement, in those surveys that include digital currency. A curriculum that, according to the KPMG consultants, Elliptic offers a unique role for this particular mission.
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