(Reuters) -The National Basketball Association is closing in on media rights deals with Comcast-owned NBC, Disney’s ESPN, and Amazon.com that would generate about $76 billion in media revenue over 11 years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Rights to the widely watched professional basketball league are a prized possession for media companies. Sports content…
By Andre Romani and Kylie Madry SAO PAULO (Reuters) – SoftBank-backed Brazilian online lender Inter & Co is hoping to replicate its home market success in the United States, where it is targeting visitors from Latin America’s largest country in two of Florida’s biggest cities, the firm’s chief executive said. Inter has quickly become one…
(Reuters) – Nvidia’s stock market value hit $3 trillion for the first time on Wednesday as the chipmaker benefited from a race between Wall Street’s heavyweights to dominate AI technology. Shares of the maker of specialized AI chips were last up 4.75%. Nvidia shares touched an intra-day record high of $1,219.93, giving it a market…
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -Boeing’s new Starliner capsule flew its first crew of astronauts to space on Wednesday from Florida in a much-delayed test mission to the International Space Station, a milestone in the aerospace giant’s ambitions to step up its competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The CST-100 Starliner, with astronauts Barry…
