Posts by Liam Redmond
News Corp beats quarterly revenue estimates on growth in Dow Jones unit
Published Fri, Feb 6, 2026 · 06:44 AM NEWS Corp beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue on Thursday, bolstered by growth in its Dow Jones, digital real estate and book publishing units. The results indicate that growth in high-margin digital subscriptions at its Dow Jones division, which includes The Wall Street Journal, is helping…
Read MoreMTA adds more bus cams to catch driver scofflaws
The MTA is picking drivers’ pockets again. City motorists could soon be getting soaked with tickets as high as $250, as the MTA’s bus‑lane camera crackdown expands to three more routes starting Friday. The MTA’s Automated Camera Enforcement program, known as ACE, slaps tickets on drivers that drive on busways, double‑park along bus routes or…
Read MoreLakers add Luke Kennard ahead of NBA trade deadline
LOS ANGELES — The Lakers are acquiring Luke Kennard from the Hawks in a trade that’ll send Gabe Vincent and the team’s lone tradeable second-round pick to Atlanta. A source confirmed to the California Post that the Lakers will trade for Kennard ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline, with the hopes that the 29-year-old wing will…
Read MoreHow to protect your intellectual property as a new founder
You finally have something real: a prototype, a name, maybe your first customers. And then it hits you. What if someone copies this? What if a contractor walks away with the code? What if an investor asks whether you actually own what you’ve built and you don’t have a clean answer? Most founders think about…
Read MoreWall Street opens lower on anxiety over Alphabet’s capex plans
Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 10:45 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Thursday (Feb 5) as investors fretted over Alphabet’s spending plans and Qualcomm’s downbeat forecast. At 09:30 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 324.80 points, or 0.66 per cent, to 49,176.50, the S&P 500 lost 63.21 points,…
Read MoreExclusive | Pro-ICE billboards calling out ‘liberal hypocrisy’ go up in swing states: ‘Let them do their jobs’
Billboards expressing support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and calling out “liberal hypocrisy” sprung up in several swing states Wednesday as federal law enforcement officers continue to face protests and harassment from anti-ICE activists. “ICE officers are: fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends,” reads one of the billboards put up by conservative…
Read MoreHPH Trust’s H2 DPU down 9.7% at HK$0.065; braces for continued uncertainty over US-China tariffs
The trust warns of ‘gradual restructuring of shipping routes and cargo flows’ as trade remains volatile [SINGAPORE] Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) declared a distribution per unit (DPU) of HK$0.065 for the six months ended Dec 31, 2025 – down 9.7 per cent from HK$0.072 in the year-ago period. This brings the trust’s full-year…
Read MoreLaMonte McLemore, singer and founding member of The 5th Dimension, dead at 90
Singer LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of vocal group The 5th Dimension, whose smooth pop and soul sounds with a touch of psychedelia brought them big hits in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was 90. McLemore died Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas surrounded by family, his representative Jeremy Westby said in…
Read MoreTrillion-dollar tech wipeout ensnares all stocks in AI’s path
Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 12:55 PM [SAN FRANCISCO] There have been many artificial intelligence (AI)-driven sell-offs in the three years since ChatGPT burst into the mainstream. Nothing, though, quite rivals the rout rippling through stock and credit markets this week. For one, there’s the sheer speed and breadth of it. In the span…
Read MoreReality is finally crashing New York’s utopian green-energy party
An outspoken global actor in the grand theater of climate policy, New York has long insisted the transition to green energy would be cheap and straightforward. For years, state leaders have promised aggressive emissions cuts at little cost. Now, reality is crashing the party, and the state has been caught out in that fib. Facing a court-imposed Friday deadline, New York has effectively conceded that its green goals would pose “costs consumers…
Read More7 founder habits that turn unpredictable revenue into stability
If your revenue graph looks like a heart monitor, you are not failing. You are building something early, uncertain, and human. Most founders do not struggle because they lack ambition or intelligence. They struggle because revenue volatility messes with decision-making, confidence, and time horizons. One good month creates false confidence. One bad month creates panic.…
Read MoreOil prices climb 3% as market awaits US-Iran talks
Opec members Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq export most of their crude via the Strait of Hormuz, mainly to Asia Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 06:10 AM [NEW YORK] Oil prices surged about 3 per cent on Wednesday (Feb 4) after a media report suggested planned talks between the…
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