News Headlines - 28 April 2017

▽McDonald's drops plan to sell shares in Japan unit | Reuters

McDonald's Corp has put on hold plans to sell shares in its Japan unit, which recently returned to profit for the first time in three years after a series of food scandals shook consumer confidence in the chain.

▽Shares in Japan's Takata suspended after report on bankruptcy plan | Reuters

Trading in Takata Corp shares was suspended on Thursday after a report that the Japanese airbag maker at the heart of the car industry's biggest-ever recall is considering a bankruptcy plan that will create a new company and ringfence its liabilities.

▽A Korean War Could Cut Pipeline of Vital Technologies to the World

The crisis over North Korea’s nuclear program highlights just how vulnerable South Korea’s most important companies are to an attack from Pyongyang... Along with Seoul, which has a population of 10 million, those commercial sites could quickly become targets for the short- and intermediate-range rockets the regime in Pyongyang has tested in recent years.

▽New Nintendo 2DS XL is the 3DS price drop in disguise - CNET

It's a New Nintendo 3DS XL without the 3D. Or, a Nintendo 2DS in a clamshell form. Nintendo has regularly released new hardware variants on its 3DS systems since 2011, and 2DS XL looks like it's the most affordable larger-screen one of the bunch.

▽Indiana Jones sequel gets pushed back to 2020 - CNET

Indiana Jones will return for his fifth film on July 20, 2020, as announced by the Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm Tuesday.
Harrison Ford will return in the title role. Steven Spielberg also returns to direct the movie, which has been pushed back from its previously announced 2019 release.