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Thursday, June 2, 2016

#USA - Inside Silicon Valley's secretive test track for self-driving cars: CNET

Published on 2 Jun 2016

A former military weapons depot is now a track where companies can test their autonomous cars in private. The media has never set foot in the guarded GoMentum Station, until now. The track is not only attracting the attention of automakers like Mercedes and Honda, but also tech companies like Google and Apple. CNET's Brian Cooley shows us how Honda is testing its latest self-driving car there.

#USA - Cracker Barrel Tops Analyst Estimates, Raises Full-Year Guidance: TheStreet

Published on 1 Jun 2016

Just in time for the summer road-trip season, shares of Cracker Barrel jumped Wednesday after the company reported earnings and announced a special dividend of $3.25 a share, payable on July 29. Adjusted earnings of $1.82 a share beat analyst estimates of $1.80 a share. The company was helped in its fiscal third quarter by in increases in same store restaurant and retail sales which were up 2.3 percent and 2.2 percent respectively. The company also increased its full-year earnings guidance, which has not been something commonly heard this earnings season. Cracker Barrel now projects full-year earnings to be between $7.75 and 7.85 a share. Same store sale increases are expected in the range of 2 to 2.5 percent, coming in line with the most recent quarter's result. Cracker Barrel CEO Sandra Cochran also hinted that diners will be excited by the chain's summer menu offerings. Something to think about when planning your next weekend road-trip!

http://www.4-traders.com/CRACKER-BARREL-OLD-COUNTR-8692/

#60s - Saudis invest $3.5bn in Uber, London’s Roman tablets: Financial Times

Published on 2 Jun 2016

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Seb Morton-Clark has Thursday’s top stories, including Saudi Arabia’s $3.5bn investment in Uber, Brazil’s economy shrinking 5.4 per cent in the first quarter and archaeologists finding Roman tablets that hint at London’s first office.

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#El Salvador - Baby accidentally given to wrong couple reunited with real parents - BBC News

Published on 2 Jun 2016

A couple who were given the wrong baby by a hospital in El Salvador a year ago, have finally been allowed to travel home with the correct child. Rich Cushworth - who is British - and his wife, Mercedes - were only given a birth certificate for their son Moses a few days ago. They landed back home in Dallas, Texas this week where they have been speaking exclusively to our correspondent Matthew Price.

Latest data could extend Kun-Manie by 18 months - Amur (AMC.L) CEO: ProactiveInvestors Stocktube

Published on 2 Jun 2016

Amur Minerals Corporation’s (LON:AMC) chief executive, Robin Young, says the company may be able to increase the mine life of its Kun-Manie nickel/ copper prospect by 18 months after in-fill drilling tests showed the high grade area extends further than previously thought.

“We’re very encouraged that this is just an add-on to the project,” says Young, adding that “just doing some simple maths, we may have added 18 months of reserve to this.”

He tells Proactive Investors that the extension of the high grade area and longer mine life presents the firm, and investors, with “much more of an upside potential.”

Young says that the drill programme is a month ahead of schedule and will likely finish towards the end of September although he added that Amur is going to “continue turning the drills as long as [it] possibly can."

http://www.4-traders.com/AMUR-MINERALS-CORPORATION-4005941/

#Denmark - Unibio on course for very quick progress, says CEO: ProactiveInvestors Stocktube

Published on 2 Jun 2016

Henrik Busch Larsen, chief executive at Unibio, believes the company is in a great position as it looks to the future and is excited by the opportunities to develop in the animal feed market.

The company has developed technology that allows methane gas to be converted into animal feed.
“This is a huge market; you have a production of a thousand million tonnes of feed being produced every year, so we’re tapping into a very, very large market.”

He says that stepping up from semi industrial scale to full industrial scale will be both a challenge and exciting, and he’s confident that once that step is made, Unibio will go from strength to strength.

“Once we have delivered the technology full-scale, you’re going to see that things are going to progress very quickly,” he said.

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#Uber - Carpooling Present Serious Threat to Auto Industry: wochit Business

Published on 1 Jun 2016

Automakers are developing anxiety in the face of the growing competition that carpooling presents to the industry. According to Mary Meeker's latest Internet Trends report which came out this morning, UberPOOL now accounts for 20 percent of all Uber rides worldwide. Automakers today feel that people don't want to own cars but are more interested in simply getting rides. General Motors recently invested in Lyft. This is just one example of how traditional carmakers are experiencing tech envy.

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/mary-mee...

#Germany - Bundestag votes on Armenian massacre | DW News

Published on 2 Jun 2016

For more http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097

Bundestag votes to classify the mass deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide. DW visits the Armenian community in Berlin and talks about the importance of this legislation.