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High coffee prices are changing how consumers take their daily brew
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/12/2025
» LONDON — Global coffee prices rose to record highs this year, sending the cost of cappuccinos and lattes soaring. But a caffeine habit is hard to kick.
Apple’s iPhone 17 line could be refresh upgraders we're waiting for
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/09/2025
» LONDON — After years of incremental refreshes, Apple Inc’s iPhone lineup feels exciting again.
Nintendo sells record 3.5 million Switch 2 consoles in four days
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/06/2025
» TOKYO — Nintendo Company sold 3.5 million-plus units of the Switch 2 in just four days, a record-breaking start for the company’s first new console in eight years.
Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/11/2024
» NEW YORK — Arguably the most famous artwork of the past decade has found a new buyer. Comedian, a sculpture by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, consisting of a piece of duct tape and a banana stuck to a wall, has sold for US$6.2 million at Sotheby’s in New York after more than six minutes of fierce bidding. The buyer is China-born crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, the auction house confirmed.
From ATMs to flights, epic IT crash leaves trail of chaos
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/07/2024
» LONDON - In what will go down as the most spectacular information technology (IT) failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc crashed countless Microsoft Windows computer systems around the world on Friday.
Taylor Swift draws 5 times as many US travellers as Olympics
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/05/2024
» Paris authorities have spent years readying for the almost 2 million international visitors expected for the 2024 Summer Olympics, but they may have overlooked a far bigger phenomenon now coming to the city: Taylor Swift.
Bangkok's fine dining lures tourists
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/09/2023
» When chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn first opened his Thai fine dining establishment Le Du in Bangkok in 2013, his four-course set menu was 990 baht (US$28 today). It was a steal compared to fine dining establishments worldwide, but a fortune in a city where Thai cuisine had for decades been characterised as street food.
The best restaurant in the world is..
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/06/2023
» The best restaurant in the world is Central, in Lima. The dynamic tasting menu restaurant from chef Virgilio Martinez features ingredients from Peru’s very diverse landscape, from potatoes sourced from of the heights of the Andes mountains to sea urchin from the ocean and notes the latitude of each dish.
Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy if cash burn continues
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/11/2022
» NEW YORK: Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility if it does not start generating more cash, according to people familiar with the matter.
Singapore tells crypto firms not to market services to public
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/01/2022
» Singapore's financial regulator told companies in the cryptocurrency industry to refrain from advertising their services to the public, in line with the city-state's desire to curb retail speculation in volatile digital assets.