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Groton Daily Independent
Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 056 ~ 57 of 65
Samsung says the capacity is enough for all-day use, thanks to ef ciencies from better software.
To boost con dence, Samsung is also seeking certi cation from an outside safety lab, UL.
Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said the fact the S8 outsold last year’s
S7 shows that “consumers are well past the Note 7 issues. Consumers are a forgiving bunch, and as long as there aren’t strings of issues, they quickly forgive and forget.”
PROSPECTS
Moorhead said Samsung’s new Android phone represents its “best opportunity to gain market share from Apple as this is the rst super-premium phone they’ve had for years.”
But it comes as Apple is expected to release its own super-premium phone for the iPhone’s 10th an- niversary. Apple hasn’t said anything about it, though it’s likely to make an announcement in the coming weeks. Carolina Milanesi, a mobile tech analyst with Creative Strategies, said high-end users tend to stick with the system they already have, whether that’s iPhones or Android.
Former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to kick Trump off
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can’t use it.
Wilson launched the fundraiser last week, tweeting: “If @Twitter executives won’t shut down Trump’s violence and hate, then it’s up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump.” The GoFundMe page for the fundraiser says Trump’s tweets “damage the country and put people in harm’s way.”
As of Wednesday morning, she had raised less than $6,000 of her $1 billion goal.
In an emailed statement, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the low total shows that the American people like the Republican president’s use of Twitter.
“Her ridiculous attempt to shut down his rst amendment is the only clear violation and expression of hate and intolerance in this equation,” the statement read.
Wilson wrote on the fundraiser’s GoFundMe page that she hopes to raise enough money to buy a controlling interest of Twitter stock. If she doesn’t have enough to purchase a majority of shares, she said, she will explore options to buy “a signi cant stake” and champion the proposal at Twitter’s annual shareholder meeting.
If Plame were to hit her $1 billion goal, she’d still fall far short of gaining a controlling interest in the com- pany. As of Wednesday, a majority stake would cost roughly $6 billion. But a $1 billion stake would make her Twitter’s largest shareholder and give her a very strong position to exert in uence on the company.
Twitter declined to comment Wednesday on Wilson’s tweet about seeking to buy the San Francisco- based company.
Wilson’s identity as a CIA operative was leaked by an of cial in President George W. Bush’s administration in 2003 in an effort to discredit her husband, Joe Wilson, a former diplomat who criticized Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. She left the agency in 2005.
A puzzle for central bankers: Solid growth but low in ation By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Against a backdrop of strengthening growth but chronically low in a- tion, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and other central bankers are taking their measure of the global economy at their annual conference in the shadow of Wyoming’s Grand Teton Mountains.
With the prospect of new leadership at the Fed within months, investors will be listening for any hint of shifting interest rate plans from the policymakers. The most watched events will come Friday, when Yellen and Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, will each address the conference.
Though a surprise announcement can’t be ruled out, most analysts expect no major policy changes to be announced by either leader. Still, central bankers going back to Alan Greenspan’s appearances in the 1980’s have sometimes used the annual conference to send messages to the nancial markets.