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News18
2 days ago
- News18
We Might Finally Know How The iPhone 17 Air Model Will Be Thin And Light
Last Updated: iPhone 17 Air is going to be the next sleek device in the market and Apple seems to be planning something big for it. iPhone 17 Air could be the next premium model this year to feature a sleek and lightweight design. Samsung has taken the first honours for doing that with the Galaxy S25 Edge but Apple has got people excited in a whole different way. The iPhone 17 Air will sit in a unique position in the series lineup later this year and new details keep coming out that shows what the company might be planning for the new device, how to handle its size and what is the best way to fit the ideal battery pack inside. iPhone 17 Air Battery Tech Revealed Earlier leaks suggested the iPhone 17 Air will come with a 2,800mAh battery which will help the device to weigh around 145 grams and get 5.5mm thickness. However, new details hint at a different plan which in some ways is better than the earlier reports. Tipster Majin Bu is back in the news again, and this time he talks about Apple using the silicon-carbon battery tech to offer a bigger unit on the iPhone 17 Air without reducing its size or making the device thick. This suggests the Air model will come with a bigger unit than the supposed 2,800mAh battery. We really hope the company also brings faster charging speeds for the new model. But along with being a sleek device, Bu claims Apple will make sure the iPhone 17 Air will be durable thanks to its use of the 7000 series aluminium alloy for the frame which will give it a lighter touch compared to the iPhone 16 Pro titanium frame. Bu was also on hand to share the supposed bend test video of the iPhone 17 Air model and the test video suggests the iPhone 17 Air has been built using solid materials which means the model is able to stay in shape despite the person putting strong effort to try and bend the device. First Published: May 30, 2025, 08:10 IST
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Bumi Armada Berhad (KLSE:ARMADA) Is Posting Promising Earnings But The Good News Doesn't Stop There
The stock was sluggish on the back of Bumi Armada Berhad's (KLSE:ARMADA) recent earnings report. Along with the solid headline numbers, we think that investors have some reasons for optimism. Trump has pledged to "unleash" American oil and gas and these 15 US stocks have developments that are poised to benefit. Many investors haven't heard of the accrual ratio from cashflow, but it is actually a useful measure of how well a company's profit is backed up by free cash flow (FCF) during a given period. In plain english, this ratio subtracts FCF from net profit, and divides that number by the company's average operating assets over that period. The ratio shows us how much a company's profit exceeds its FCF. That means a negative accrual ratio is a good thing, because it shows that the company is bringing in more free cash flow than its profit would suggest. While having an accrual ratio above zero is of little concern, we do think it's worth noting when a company has a relatively high accrual ratio. That's because some academic studies have suggested that high accruals ratios tend to lead to lower profit or less profit growth. Bumi Armada Berhad has an accrual ratio of -0.11 for the year to March 2025. Therefore, its statutory earnings were quite a lot less than its free cashflow. In fact, it had free cash flow of RM1.6b in the last year, which was a lot more than its statutory profit of RM576.2m. Bumi Armada Berhad's free cash flow improved over the last year, which is generally good to see. Having said that, there is more to the story. The accrual ratio is reflecting the impact of unusual items on statutory profit, at least in part. Check out our latest analysis for Bumi Armada Berhad That might leave you wondering what analysts are forecasting in terms of future profitability. Luckily, you can click here to see an interactive graph depicting future profitability, based on their estimates. Bumi Armada Berhad's profit was reduced by unusual items worth RM312m in the last twelve months, and this helped it produce high cash conversion, as reflected by its unusual items. This is what you'd expect to see where a company has a non-cash charge reducing paper profits. It's never great to see unusual items costing the company profits, but on the upside, things might improve sooner rather than later. We looked at thousands of listed companies and found that unusual items are very often one-off in nature. And, after all, that's exactly what the accounting terminology implies. If Bumi Armada Berhad doesn't see those unusual expenses repeat, then all else being equal we'd expect its profit to increase over the coming year. In conclusion, both Bumi Armada Berhad's accrual ratio and its unusual items suggest that its statutory earnings are probably reasonably conservative. Looking at all these factors, we'd say that Bumi Armada Berhad's underlying earnings power is at least as good as the statutory numbers would make it seem. If you want to do dive deeper into Bumi Armada Berhad, you'd also look into what risks it is currently facing. You'd be interested to know, that we found 1 warning sign for Bumi Armada Berhad and you'll want to know about this. Our examination of Bumi Armada Berhad has focussed on certain factors that can make its earnings look better than they are. And it has passed with flying colours. But there is always more to discover if you are capable of focussing your mind on minutiae. Some people consider a high return on equity to be a good sign of a quality business. So you may wish to see this free collection of companies boasting high return on equity, or this list of stocks with high insider ownership. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team (at) article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Malaysian Reserve
2 days ago
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
PeterLabs files lawsuit to block shareholder-led EGM amid boardroom dispute
PeterLabs Holdings Bhd has filed a lawsuit to block an EGM requisitioned by non-independent non-ED Lin Ching Yein and substantial shareholder Bu Yaw Seng. The EGM seeks to remove existing directors and appoint new board members. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, PeterLabs said the board, after obtaining legal advice, is of the view that 'the resolutions proposed by Bu and Lin if passed, would not be in the interest of PeterLabs,' and therefore 'has decided not to convene the EGM as requested.' The company has commenced legal proceedings in the Seremban High Court seeking 'a declaration that the notice of requisition dated May 15, 2025 issued by Bu and Lin is invalid.' PeterLabs is also applying for an interlocutory injunction to restrain Bu and Lin from proceeding with the EGM pending the court's final decision. This legal action follows earlier moves by PeterLabs and its subsidiary Thye On Tong Trading Sdn Bhd against Lin, as well as the suspension of ED Datuk Loh Saw Foong over alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. — TMR
Tom's Guide
3 days ago
- Tom's Guide
iPhone 17 Pro Max just shown off in hands-on video — and there's a big design trade-off
Most of the rumors around the next iPhone models have focused on the thinner, lighter iPhone 17 Air. And that's logical — it's the shiny new toy. But let's get back to one of the traditional iPhone models, the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Apple isn't forgetting the top-of-the-line model, and you probably shouldn't either. The iPhone 17 Pro Max is rumored to feature a new rear camera design with a 48MP telephoto camera, a front 24MP camera and dual video recording in the camera app — so you'll be able to shoot with the front and rear cameras at the same time. The flagship may also get vapor chamber cooling for better sustained performance and 12GB of RAM. But it appears there's a trade-off for these new goodies. A new dummy unit leak from Majin Bu on X (via 9To5Mac) shows off a much thicker phone than we're used to from Apple, especially with the phones trending towards cutting the fat. iPhone 17 Pro is beautiful 28, 2025 According to a social media video, the dummy iPhone 17 Pro Max appears to be thicker than the popular iPhone 16 Pro Max. Here's the size of each device (though remember, this is a dummy unit and the dimensions could change when the phone launches): Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. That's about half a millimeter thicker. While it's not much in the grand scheme of things, it shows that Apple isn't only concerned about making the thinnest, lightest phone possible. People who buy the Pro Max models (myself included) tend to prioritize the largest screen and the best features, and size isn't a significant concern. Most likely, Apple wants to cram as much battery as possible into its high-end phone, and making it even less than a millimeter thicker should allow it to offer a little more capacity, which will directly translate to more extended periods between charges and could certainly cement its place as one of the best phones. While Bu has a decent track record of Apple leaks (he correctly predicted the iPhone 16e name change, for example), you should still take this leak with a grain of salt, as nothing has been confirmed by Apple yet. We likely won't hear anything official about the iPhone 17 series until September, when the company is expected to unveil its next iPhone upgrades.
Newsroom
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsroom
Parliament left speechless as Winston walks, Māori leaders absent
The next razor gang that's convened at Parliament needs to take a blade to the time allocated for speeches by party leaders on Budget Day. Though they demand efficiency and effectiveness, outputs and outcomes from everyone else, the nation's biggest political celebrities need to look to themselves: their contributions following Budget 2025 were variously bloated, unfocused or Just. Too. Long. Most made their points, strove for arcs of ideology and philosophy, reached natural conclusions and then just started up again, rhetoric on repeat, filling in the 20 yawning minutes allowed on the big day. Nicola Willis' Budget speech is exempt from the time limit, a fixed set-piece that has to say what it says and take the time it needs to say it. She carried off her second attempt with a measured purpose, having had the advantage of knowing its contents and working on its wording for weeks. The Leader of the Opposition, who goes next, has almost no time to prepare, anticipating and winging it to form a passable response. Then the Prime Minister and leaders of other parties in the House in descending order of MMP representation. The governing ones know the details in advance; the opposing ones are instantly reactive. Both Te Pāti Māori's co-leaders were absent, their courtesy copies of the big document hand-delivered by Willis to empty pews, ironic in the extreme given the House had ostensibly adjourned Tuesday's Privileges Committee punishment debate so they could take part in the Budget. Whether intended or not, it was a very 2025 trolling of their accusers. And the New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, a stickler for parliamentary propriety, heard Willis and some of Hipkins and then disappeared as well, an astonishing act for someone who relishes the main event and could be expected to claim victory for the Budget's many triumphs. His deputy and the fill-in NZ First orator Shane Jones told the House Peters had advised him he was to take over the speaking role only at 1.15pm, 45 minutes before the Budget speech. Peters' sudden exit was linked by his office to his need to fly north and prepare for an official visit to Australia on Friday. But why leave it so late to drop the surprise on Jones? How could Winston Peters not claim his place at the annual leaders' showpiece? Soon to step down from the deputy prime ministership, perhaps he is grooming Jones for an earlier than expected elevation to the party leadership? Willis, and four party leaders did get to speak, stretching out over more than two hours with a festival of rhetoric. Willis may have promised a 'No BS Budget' but sadly couldn't control some of the BS that followed. Here's a summary of their performances, and how they rated: Nicola Willis, holder of the Budget – 7.5 The format of the Budget speech is good for Willis, requiring a relatively straight and formal delivery and restraining her natural impulse to condescend to those on the other side of the House. There was no escaping that the Budget had served up an easy ball (in the form of the $12 billion cut in projected contingency funding to cover pay equity settlements) for Hipkins to hit, sitting across from her. But Willis fronted that, talking up the 'repurposing' of $2.7b a year for other things. She denied her document was austere, and claimed it was 'deliberate' and for the medium-term, and revealed the hidden centrepiece, Investment Boost, which allows businesses a tax write-off for a portion of new kit, buildings, and machinery. A possibly unprecedented, humanising moment came when Willis talked of the need to limit debt to protect kids of the future. Both in her scripted speech and unscripted, she acknowledged her own children in the public gallery above her, apologising to one that Mum had been too busy to attend a show on Wednesday night. And it was for the kids, on education, that she broke ministerial mask again, telling the education minister: 'The Honourable Erica Stanford – we did it! It is a great Budget.' Willis' biggest applause, however, was when she teased the Greens that the coalition 'would not be defunding the police'. Whoop, whoops from an excited Government side. Her sign-off, that 'every Kiwi can know that this is a government that has their back' was hardly climactic. But it elicited a standing ovation from her side, hugs from the PM and Christopher Bishop. And a modest clap from Winston Peters. Chris Hipkins, for the prosecution – 7.0 Hipkins had the advantage, this year, of knowing that the pay equity law change gave him material to work with, and for much of his speech he hammered Willis and the Government for taking money for pay equity settlements to cover for their 'bad choices and failures' elsewhere. Other than an occasional breaking note in his voice, he spoke strongly and had the line of the session, declaring that when Willis had promised no lolly scramble she had been right. 'This is a scramble without the lollies' he pressed, noting the Government's moves to take monies from one place to pay for others. On the $200m Crown investment into offshore mining, the Labour man remarked 'they are adept at mining the pits of division'. Hipkins played up Willis' 'No BS Budget' line, offering alternatives that it had no 'bold solutions, bread and shelter, backpaid settlements, or better society' but did have 'big subsidies' for oil and gas. He checked off the incumbents' failures – record numbers leaving for overseas, more people living on the streets, more children hungry, women earning less. 'They are offering growth but it's growth in all the wrong places.' His pace and hitting of raw nerves was good until it kind of reached an end point, but didn't end, reached another and didn't end and another and finally a tame round-off: 'New Zealanders deserve better from their Government than what they are being offered today.' Christopher Luxon, for the defence – 6.0 Luxon, oddly, dedicated much of the first half of his Budget speech to attacking Labour and the Greens at length. He won clubroom cheers from his backbench with several taunts of Hipkins as 'Mr Bo Jandals', a line he felt the need to explain related to his opponent's flip flopping and once holding a press conference in thongs. Luxon elicited groans when he asked the Government team to imagine Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori trying to run the economy. 'They can't run a bath, let alone the economy.' Copying Willis from the general debate on Wednesday, he spent time highlighting differences between Hipkins and his finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds on debt. It all seemed a bit beneath the position of PM, particularly when there was so much to talk about in the main event of the day, the Willis document – the Investment Boost, debt track, infrastructure spend. The Prime Minister did eventually get to it, after saying what every political strategist in the building had been muttering: 'Enough about the Labour Party.' Luxon praised his National number two as 'the great Nicola Willis. How lucky is New Zealand and how lucky are we?' Education Minister Erica Stanford was declared 'brilliant' and Simeon Brown went global: 'Our fantastic, world-class Minister of Health, Simeon Brown.' The PM praised the Budget for its growth aspects, and rattled off dozens of New Zealand towns in an 'I've been everywhere, man' style to emphasise investment in extra urgent and after hours healthcare. After a 'back on track' to wrap up, Luxon also won an ovation from his side, but it seemed less than ecstatic. Chlöe Swarbrick, for radical change – 6.5 Parliament got the full finger-thumping, hand-chopping, arm-waving, frowningly expressive Swarbrick, not content for this big moment to criticise a Budget as much as to critique a system – 'a game' – of the neoliberal order from the last 40 years. Her vigour threatened to overwhelm the message at times, but it was as clearly articulated a view of anti-neoliberalism, of challenging the prevailing economic orthodoxies, as the House has heard for some years. Swarbrick eviscerated the coalition for its changes to Best Start, the funding for new parents, contrasting taking $200m away from young families with a similar investment in gas exploration. 'In a planet on fire they're taking money away from babies and setting it on fire.' She reached for a moniker for the Budget, trying 'the trickledown … the child poverty is all good … the Let them Eat Cake' budgets and ending with a label about pay equity that was too long to note. Throughout, the Green co-leader derided the narrative adopted by Willis and governments over the past decades. 'They say 'don't hate the player, hate the game'. Well, we hate the game. The rules of the game were made by those politicians 40 years ago, outdated, self-imposed targets in this made-up game.' Again, Swarbrick could have wound up earlier but saw out her time with memories back to the 1930s and 1940s and an era of public education, healthcare and housing right up until before she was born. Public goods and assets were sold and 'regular people have been left fighting for crumbs'. David Seymour, for 'firms, farms and families' – 6.5 Seymour said an Act Budget would have been different (cough, better) but played nice, saying how proud he was to be part of the coalition that had saved taxpayers billions when inflation and the population were rising. He saluted another year of stable government, but diverted off to ridicule the Greens' alternative Budget and Swarbrick for what he called 'thundering cliches', Te Pāti Māori for 'not knowing what a Budget is, or that it is on today' and more about unicorns and TikTok. The Act leader did try to strike a high-minded pose, musing on virtuous circles and (surely not a cliche) that 'the government that governs best is the government that governs less'. So philosophical did he get that he said Budgets weren't about who gets what, but about values. 'Making the most of your time on Earth.' Then, with the luxury of the 20-minute speech slot, he moved to extol the value of his coming Regulatory Standards Bill, how it would 'punish the bad lawmakers' and adding in something about 'frickin cones'. He riffed off into the right to be 'safe in our bodies from thugs abroad and at home', praised Defence Minister Judith Collins and declared the $500m Act had lobbied for for more prison beds was 'the best money you will ever spend'. His grab-bag flicked at RNZ, which is losing 7 percent of its public funding over the next four years: 'Should help focus the organisation on high-quality news reporting.' And he had a swipe at former National education minister Hekia Parata's 'communities of learning', which had been axed, saving $375m. 'There are so many savings I'm going to run out of time.' He didn't. Shane Jones – from the bench – 5.0 Jones had 45 minutes' warning, he told the House, that he was to take his leader's speaking slot. Peters had teased him about always wanting to challenge himself without notes. 'Please talk about rail' Peters had urged his deputy. As it turned out rail got a glancing sentence or two in a feat of on-your-feet oratory that wasn't saved by its structure, content or conclusion. Matua Jones started by holding up a little lidded bottle that he claimed contained Maui oil and offered to let the Greens sniff it, but also to protect it from Te Pāti Māori who might lay claim to it. His forceful words careened across the NZ First-inspired $200m investment in mining 'to keep the lights on, power prices down and energy flowing' through Chris Hipkins kissing frogs in search of a future coalition prince and Kaikohe meth, the RMA and victimhood haka. Like Seymour he hit out at the Greens, complaining of their MPs' 'conceit and false superiority' and seemed like he was heading for a soaring conclusion multiple times, before, eventually holding aloft his oil bottle and abruptly taking his seat.
