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Starbucks (SBUX) is striving to brew up a comeback. The Seattle-based coffee giant posted its first quarter fiscal year 2025 results on Tuesday after market close, which showed declines across the board but beat Wall Street’s expectations. This was the first full quarter under CEO Brian Niccol, who took the helm on Sept. 9. «The first quarter in 2025 results met our expectations, clearly show[ed] some signs of progress … we still have much work to do,» Niccol told investors on an earnings call, with a positive response across all ages so far in its «Back to Starbucks» plan, which…

Munnawar Chishty has been promoted to CMO, overseeing both Britvic’s soft drink brands and Carlsberg’s beer brands in the UK. Former Britvic CMO Cindy Tervoort has departed the business. Munnawar Chishty has been promoted to lead marketing across the Carlsberg Britvic business, which combines the brewer’s and soft drink maker’s brands together in a newly merged company. Chishty, who previously led marketing in Great Britain for Britvic as its marketing director, takes on the new title of chief marketing officer for Carlsberg Britvic. The merged business was launched today (17 January) and unites Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (the British subsidiary…

Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty Images The stocks of software companies such as Salesforce have soared this week on hopes that Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s cost-efficient AI model could make AI applications significantly less expensive to develop and run. DeepSeek’s success could hasten the roll-out of AI agents, semi-autonomous digital assistants that Wall Street analysts expected to command greater investor attention this year. Microsoft’s Azure platform, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote on Tuesday, could benefit from a proliferation of AI models and consumer applications. Chinese startup DeepSeek’s super-efficient open-source AI model may have sunk some of Wall Street’s favorite AI stocks…

A new laser-based imaging technique has been developed to study nanoscale heat and charge transport in ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors like diamond. By utilising a tabletop deep-ultraviolet (DUV) laser, researchers have achieved spatial resolutions of 287 nanometres, enabling detailed analysis of diamond’s transport behaviours. This breakthrough addresses the limitations of visible-light imaging methods and could revolutionise the design of high-efficiency power electronics and communication systems.Study Reveals Unique Capabilities of the DUV MicroscopeAccording to the study published in Physical Review Applied, the microscope generates high-energy DUV light to create interference patterns on the material’s surface, forming sinusoidal heating profiles. Researchers at JILA, led…

Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI Nvidia’s 17% sell-off could be the beginning of a pullback that’s two or three times larger, Nassim Taleb says. The «Black Swan» author said the DeepSeek-fueled market rout exposed how fragile the market is. Nvidia’s loss was relatively small considering the stock’s steep climb in recent years, he added. Nvidia’s double-digit decline could be just a taste of what’s to come for investors, with another pullback multiple times as large in the cards, «Black Swan» author Nassim Taleb said. Taleb, an advisorr at hedge fund Universa Investments, cautioned that Nvidia’s rout, which wiped out almost…

The US Supreme Court has backed the ban of TikTok, meaning the app will be shut down in the United States on Sunday (19 January). This comes after Chinese owner ByteDance was ordered to sell TikTok to a US buyer last April, after concerns over national security and the potential spread of propaganda and disinformation. The app has more than 170 million users in the US, with brands investing large sums of money. Ad spend in the US during Q3 of last year alone was $2.17bn, with spend projected to be $4.17bn in Q4 2026, according to WARC, meaning TikTok stands…

A Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX carried 21 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Monday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission, designated Starlink 12-7, lifted off at 5:05 p.m. EST. Among the satellites deployed, 13 were equipped with Direct-to-Cell capabilities aimed at enhancing mobile connectivity. The mission also marked a significant milestone for the first-stage booster, completing its 20th flight and successful landing.Mission DetailsAccording to mission details provided by SpaceX, as reported by space.com, the booster, identified as B1076, previously supported various launches, including CRS-26, Intelsat IS-40e, and 10 other Starlink missions. On…

Exclusive: Liberty India to enter specialty market with trade credit, surety buildout as interest grows January 29 2025 by Kristina Shperlik Liberty General Insurance India is planning to expand into specialty lines, starting with surety and trade credit lines in the next few months, the carrier has exclusively confirmed to InsuranceAsia N… To continue reading the full article and get full access to the InsuranceAsia News platform, please enquire about a subscription. Your company may already have a corporate license in place. Already a Subscriber? Please Login MORE FROM: Exclusive Exclusive: Ex-Aon India transaction liability leadership heads to rival Lockton…

Huawei Technologies Co.’s ambition in consumer devices over the past year has been to decouple from Alphabet Inc.’s Android software entirely, culminating with the launch of its made-in-China HarmonyOS Next alongside the Mate 70 smartphone in December. It’s the most substantial attempt at building a third mobile ecosystem, outside of Apple Inc.’s iPhone empire and the Google-led Android confederation, and it builds on the company’s considerable reach, resources and nearly a billion existing users in China.HarmonyOS got its start in 2019 when US trade restrictions barred Huawei from doing regular business with the likes of Google. After years of relying…

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order pausing the ban to allow TikTok’s Chinese owner more time to find a buyer, potentially saving the platform billions in lost ad revenue. TikTok is restoring service in the US after a brief pause following assertions from incoming President Donald Trump that he will not uphold the ban. The Chinese-owned app’s 170 million US users were met with a message on Saturday evening saying the platform “isn’t available right now”. The firm said it was “fortunate” Trump had indicated “he will work with us on a solution to reinstate…