Facebook wants to make it easier for people to find low-skilled jobs online. After testing the new software in U.S. and Canada since last year, Facebook added job postings Wednesday…
more ...Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network
Several high-tech companies are teaming up on a plan to put a mobile phone network on the moon next year. Vodaphone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are working on a mobile…
more ...Facebook: No New Evidence Russia Interfered in Brexit Vote
Facebook Inc has told a British parliamentary committee that further investigations have found no new evidence that Russia used social media to interfere in the June 2016 referendum in which…
more ...ISS Astronauts Will Soon Get a Personal Assistant
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will soon get a personal assistant, similar to Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, but so smart that astronauts prefer to call it a “colleague.”…
more ...Could Winning Super Bowl Play Be Winning Marketing Ploy?
A company’s value is often tied to the message it portrays to customers. But what happens when other companies try to take advantage of your brand? Take the Philadelphia Eagles,…
more ...Artificial Intelligence Poses Big Threat to Society, Warn Leading Scientists
Artificial Intelligence is on the cusp of transforming our world in ways many of us can barely imagine. While there’s much excitement about emerging technologies, a new report by 26…
more ...Giant Retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods Ends Sales of Assault-Style Weapons
Dick’s Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the U.S., will immediately end the sale of assault-style rifles in its stores and stop selling guns of any type…
more ...Indexes Point to Cooling Growth in China This Year
Growth in China’s manufacturing sector in February cooled to the weakest in more than 11/2 years, raising concerns of a sharper-than-expected slowdown in the world’s second biggest economy this year…
more ...US Proposes Anti-dumping Duties on Chinese Aluminum Foil
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday recommended raising import duties on Chinese-made aluminum foil it said is being sold at unfairly low prices due to improper subsidies to producers. …
more ...Plan to Privatize US Air Traffic Control Lacks Support, Lawmaker Says
The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Tuesday that there was not enough support in Congress to move forward with a plan backed by President Donald…
more ...White House: Senior US, Chinese Officials to Meet This Week on Trade
Three of President Donald Trump’s senior economic aides are expected to meet this week with a top Chinese economic official to discuss trade disputes between the United States and China.…
more ...WTO Chief Reacts Coolly to Trump’s Criticism of Trade Judges
The head of the World Trade Organization diplomatically took issue with U.S. President Donald Trump’s description of the WTO as a catastrophe on Tuesday, pointing out that the United States…
more ...Ford, Miami to Form Test Bed for Self-driving Cars
Ford Motor Co. is making Miami-Dade County its new test bed for self-driving vehicles. The automaker and its partners — Domino’s Pizza, ride-hailing company Lyft and delivery company Postmates —…
more ...‘Disagree’ Banned on China Social Media
Authorities in China have launched an intense crackdown on online commentary in the wake of a proposal by the country’s communist party leaders to amend the constitution and scrap a two-term…
more ...Officials: US NAFTA Autos Negotiator Called From Mexico for Consultations
The U.S. negotiator for regional content requirements in autos flew back to Washington from a NAFTA round in Mexico on Monday to talk with car companies, officials said, in a…
more ...Comcast Makes $31 Billion Offer to Buy Sky
Comcast Corp, the biggest cable operator in the United States, offered on Tuesday to pay $31 billion to buy Sky, challenging Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Bob Iger’s Walt Disney for…
more ...Microsoft, Justice Department in Showdown Over Foreign-stored Data
The U.S. Justice Department and Microsoft will face off against each other Tuesday when the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether tech companies’ desire to protect user data is at…
more ...Cuban Cigar Sales Hit Record as China Demand Surges
A surge in sales of Cuba’s legendary cigars in China helped manufacturer Habanos S.A.’s global revenue rise 12 percent to hit a record of around $500 million last year, the…
more ...Denver Weighs Olympics Bid Years After Withdrawing as Host
It promised ample snow and sunny weather on a normally bare, rocky peak easily accessible by “super highway,” thousands more hotel rooms than existed, and a cross-country ski course that…
more ...Likely Centrist Brazil Presidential Contender Says He Would Sell Petrobras
The governor of Sao Paulo and likely centrist presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin said on Monday that he would privatize Brazil’s state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA if he wins the…
more ...Trump Says Wants to Revive Steel Jobs Even if it Takes Import Tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wants to bring the steel industry back to America even if it means applying tariffs to imports from other countries. “I want…
more ...Mumbai’s Legendary Lunchbox Carriers Take Waste Food to the Poor
One of the hallmarks of India’s financial capital, Mumbai, is a food delivery system that involves 5,000 lunchbox carriers, who distribute over 100,000 home cooked meals to office workers with…
more ...GE Reshapes Board After Retroactively Cutting Profits
Days after saying that it would retroactively cut the profits reported over the past two years, General Electric Co. is reshaping its board of directors. One person joining the board…
more ...Amid Rohingya Crisis, Largely Business as Usual in Myanmar
Reports of massacres and the displacement of close to 700,000 Rohingya have chilled relations between Myanmar and its Western partners but the crisis has not reversed the country’s long-term economic…
more ...Cryptocurrency Newcomers Cope With Wild Swings
After researching digital currencies for work last year, personal finance writer J.R. Duren hopped on his own crypto-rollercoaster. Duren bought $5 worth of litecoin in November, and eventually purchased $400…
more ...NASA Builds Atomic Clock for Deep-Space Navigation
Only days after the spectacular liftoff of what is currently the heaviest space rocket, the privately built Falcon Heavy, NASA announced the next launch will carry a specially built atomic…
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