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If you bought insurance on your TV in 1998, the company remembers – and as it faces creditors, attorneys are looking into how much data it can legally sell RadioShack is looking to sell reams of data. Photograph: Richard Levine/Richard Levine/Demotix/Corbis Available from RadioShack: three-prong adaptors, television antennas, cellphone cases, and millions of its former customers’ street addresses and emails. Over its 90-year history, the company acquired personally identifiable information about its customers including social security numbers, emails, home addresses, telephone numbers, “and other government issued identification numbers unique to each consumer”, according to RadioShack’s legal filings.

Join the Nigerian author for a discussion of her latest novel Americanah at Kings Place on 2 June Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Monday 2 June, 7pm Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Tickets: £9.50 online /£11.50 from the box office Americanah is the story of Ifemula and Obinze, who fall in love as teenagers in a Nigeria under military dictatorship.

The next Call of Duty video game— Black Ops 3 —will launch on November 6th, Activision has confirmed—a Friday. Friday is an unusual day for a Call of Duty release. Traditionally, most video games, including the Black Ops games, have released on Tuesdays in North America. “We thought  it would be really fun for the fans to kick-off Black Ops 3 on a weekend,” Rob Kostich, Senior Vice President at Activision Publishing told me, explaining the change.

A young girl detonated explosives hidden under her clothes as she approached the gates of Damaturu bus station in northeast Nigeria The aftermath of the bomb blast in Damaturu. Photograph: Twitter Agencies in Potiskum and Maiduguri Saturday 16 May 2015 16.14 BST A young girl on Saturday carried out a suicide attack at a bus station in Damaturu in northeastern Nigeria , killing seven people and injuring 31, witnesses and the local hospital said. “A girl aged about 12 detonated an explosive under her clothes as she approached the station’s perimeter fence,” said witness Danbaba Nguru.

Nigerian Nobel laureate receives strong support to win 300-year-old position, held in the past by writers from Matthew Arnold to Seamus Heaney Poetry polling ... Wole Soyinka. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka has put himself forward as one of three candidates for the position of Oxford professor of poetry , a 300-year-old elected post which is seen as the top academic poetry role in the UK. First held by Joseph Trapp in 1708, the professorship, second only in prestige to that of poet laureate, has been filled in the past by Matthew Arnold, Cecil Day-Lewis, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.

Thanks in part $90 million in the first four days of play in China and a whopping $76m this far in South Korea among other markets,  Walt Disney's DIS +0.34%   Avengers: Age of Ultron  has passed $1 billion worldwide today. It was at $990 million as of yesterday, so it should be passing the magic milestone by the end of this sentence. It is the 21st film to cross the respective box office milestone, doing so in its 24th day of global play.

Opened in 1956, GM's sprawling Tech Center outside Detroit is getting a $1 billion makeover General Motors GM +0.75% will invest $1 billion in its research and development campus in suburban Detroit, part of an ongoing effort to attract the world’s best engineers, designers and IT professionals to an industry some still view as symbolic of a bygone, rust-belt era.

White House says Abu Sayyaf killed and wife Umm Sayyaf captured Defense secretary Carter calls operation a ‘significant blow to Isis’ Pentagon spokesman tells Guardian: ‘No one’s going to Gitmo’ Isis fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. Photograph: Uncredited/AP US special operations forces have killed an Islamic State commander through a dramatic and secretive raid into Syria and have taken a woman prisoner, the first US-held detainee of the war against Isis and a move that places immediate stress on one of Barack Obama’s signature wartime policies. Ashton Carter, the US defense secretary, confirmed on Saturday that Obama ordered the elite troops to raid a location in eastern Syria and “capture” an Isis figure, Abu Sayyaf. Unusually, Carter said the raid also targeted the man’s wife, identified as Umm Sayyaf.

Leadership changes are challenging. They can be even tougher when an iconic company founder is replaced. Nike and Starbucks SBUX -0.27% both stumbled after Phil Knight and Howard Schultz stepped down from leading their respective companies. Steve Jobs was ousted from  Apple AAPL +0.13%  in 1985 and the company entered a near death spiral in the early 1990s. But Jobs returned in 1996 to lead the company to unprecedented heights. In Apple’s latest transition, the train keeps on rolling under CEO Tim Cook, who replaced Jobs in 2011. “The brand promise with Apple is so strong and they continue to deliver on that,” says Kevin Lane Keller, a branding expert and professor at Dartmouth’s  Tuck School of Business . #1 Apple ...