©2016 Bloomberg News O0I4JM6VDKHU (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. may be preparing to raise its character limit for tweets to the thousands from the current 140, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The maximum number of characters in a post could be raised to as much as 10,000, said the person,

©2016 Bloomberg News O0I2UA6KLVRC (Bloomberg) — The euro slumped to its lowest in a month as an inflation report highlighted the persistent gap between economic growth in the currency bloc and in the U.S. The common currency fell a fourth day, extending its longest losing streak since November, as a

©2016 Bloomberg News O0GH0E6S9729 (Bloomberg) — Editas Medicine Inc., the drugmaker whose backers include Bill Gates and Google Ventures, filed to become the first publicly traded company to specialize in a new technology to edit flaws in genes. The company, which uses a gene-editing technique called Crispr, filed Monday for

©2016 Bloomberg News O0GDWI6JTSEB (Bloomberg) — Statistics surrounding economic growth are flawed at best, yet investors and officials rely on them. To show how uncertain the numbers can be, London-based research firm World Economics set out to rank 154 countries according to the reliability of their gross domestic product statistics. “Without

©2016 Bloomberg View O086W36JTSEA (Bloomberg View) — National Review’s Tim Alberta and Eliana Johnson report a potentially important development: The emergence of an Anybody-But-Cruz-(Except-Trump) movement from the soon-to-be ashes of the Iowa campaigns of Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. It would seem that some social conservatives, including a few currently supporting

©2016 Bloomberg News O0EIHL6JTSEH (Bloomberg) — Mark Zuckerberg has decided on a new challenge for 2016: build an artificially intelligent assistant that can help around the home and at work. Facebook Inc.’s chief executive officer aims to build something like Jarvis in the “Iron Man” comics, he said in a

©2016 Bloomberg News O0EKFH6TTDS0 (Bloomberg) — In a significant escalation of tensions, Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran and expelled the Islamic Republic’s diplomats, a day after its embassy in Tehran was attacked to protest the Saudis’ execution of a prominent Shiite cleric. Iran’s ambassador in the kingdom has 48

Islamic State terrorists have been announcing that they see themselves as part of the apocalyptic end times prophesied in the Koran and that Jesus will appear soon to defeat the armies of Rome, thus beginning the countdown to the end of the world.  This prophetic interpretation was hinted at by

©2015 Bloomberg News O06XT76JTSEB (Bloomberg) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the scale of bombings targeting civilians by Boko Haram is overwhelming and the intelligence service has no information about the condition or location of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the insurgents last year. Boko Haram’s “capacity to conventionally

©2015 Bloomberg News O078VN6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. said it will tell users of its e-mail and cloud storage services when government-backed hackers may have targeted them. The policy expands on existing procedures where Microsoft tells users if they believe an account has been targeted or compromised by a third