German automaker BMW said Wednesday that profits in 2019 would be “well below” last year’s and that it planned to cut 12 billion euros ($13.6 billion) in costs by the…
more ...Mexico President Talks US Investment With Trump Son-in-Law
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says talks with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner have led to advances toward an agreement that would have the U.S. government guarantee some…
more ...Starbucks to Test Recyclable Cups, Redesign Stores
Starbucks says it plans to test both recyclable and compostable cups over the next year. Customers in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London and Vancouver, British Colombia, will help…
more ...EU Fines Google $1.7 Billion for Abusing Online Ads Market
European Union regulators have hit Google with a 1.49 billion euro ($1.68 billion) fine for abusing its dominant role in online advertising. It’s the third time the commission has slapped…
more ...Trump Linking Huawei, China Trade Roils Justice Department
President Donald Trump shocked some last month when he suggested that the criminal charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, might be used as leverage in his administration’s ongoing trade talks with China. …
more ...Venezuelans Find Ways to Cope with Inflation and Hunger
Francibel Contreras brings her three malnourished children to a soup kitchen in the dangerous hillside Caracas slum of Petare where they scoop in spoonfuls of rice and scrambled eggs in…
more ...Robotics Company Creates an All Purpose Robot ‘Platform’
A robotics company hopes to bring a robot into every home and business, using a proprietary robotic platform—that can be programmed and tweaked for a wide variety of users and…
more ...Trump Accuses Twitter, Facebook, Google of Siding with ‘Radical Left Democrats’
U.S. President Donald Trump has accused social media outlets, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, of being biased, and suggested that the situation needs scrutiny. In answer to a reporter at…
more ...In End of 20th Century Fox, a New Era Dawns for Hollywood
The Fox Studio backlot, first built in 1926 on a Culver City ranch in Los Angeles, was enormous. Before much of it was sold off in the 1960s, it was…
more ...Boeing Reshuffles Top Engineers Amid 737 MAX Crisis
Boeing, facing its biggest crisis in years following deadly crashes of its flagship 737 MAX aircraft, has brought in a new vice president of engineering while dedicating another top executive…
more ...Trump to Meet with Caribbean Leaders on Friday at His Florida Resort
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet at his Florida resort on Friday with the leaders of the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Saint Lucia to discuss Chinese “predatory economic…
more ...Goodbye Console? Google Launches Game-streaming Platform
Google on Tuesday unveiled a video-game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on the traditional video-game business. The platform will store a game-playing session in the cloud and…
more ...Trump Renews Attack Alleging Social Media’s Political Bias
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused social media platforms Facebook, YouTube and Twitter of favoring his Democratic opponents over him and his fellow Republicans. “But fear not, we will…
more ...Warner Bros.’ Chief Tsujihara Steps Down Following Scandal
Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara, one of the highest ranking Hollywood executives to be felled by sexual misconduct allegations, stepped down from the studio Monday following claims that he promised…
more ...AP Source: Justice Dept. Probing Development of Boeing Jets
U.S. prosecutors are looking into the development of Boeing’s 737 Max jets, a person briefed on the matter revealed Monday, the same day French aviation investigators concluded there were “clear…
more ...In Thai Election, New ‘War Room’ Polices Social Media
In Thailand’s election “war room,” authorities scroll through thousands of social media posts, looking for violations of laws restricting political parties’ campaigning on social media that activists say are among…
more ...Tech Consortium Flags More Than 800 Versions of New Zealand Attack Video
A consortium of global technology firms has shared on its collective database the digital fingerprints of more than 800 versions of the video of New Zealand’s mass shootings that killed…
more ...S. Korea Alert System Warns ‘Smartphone Zombies’ of Traffic
A city in South Korea, which has the world’s highest smartphone penetration rate, has installed flickering lights and laser beams at a road crossing to warn “smartphone zombies” to look…
more ...Ethiopia and Indonesia Crash Parallels Heap Pressure on Boeing
Investigators into the Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia have found striking similarities in a vital flight angle with an airplane that came down off Indonesia, a source said, piling…
more ...Paris Catches Asian Tigers in Most Expensive City Race
Paris and Hong Kong for the first time joined Singapore as the world’s most expensive cities to live in, a study revealed on Tuesday, with utilities and transport driving up…
more ...NATO to Receive First Northrop Surveillance Drone, Years Late
NATO is to receive the first of five Northrop Grumman high-altitude drones in the third quarter after years of delays, giving the alliance its own spy drones for the first…
more ...US Government, Intel Aim for Nation’s Fastest Computer
A U.S. government-led group is working with chipmaker Intel and Cray to develop and build the nation’s fastest computer by 2021 for conducting nuclear weapons and other research, officials said Monday. The…
more ...Facebook Says Service Hindered by Lack of Local News
Facebook’s effort to establish a service that provides its users with local news and information is being hindered by the lack of outlets where the company’s technicians can find original…
more ...US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei
VOA’s Xu Ning contributed to this report. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. government has launched a seemingly unprecedented campaign to block the Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from competing…
more ...Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers
U.S. President Donald Trump is attacking General Motors, the country’s biggest automaker, for costing 5,400 factory workers their jobs when it closed a manufacturing plant where it built a compact…
more ...OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place
Oil producer group OPEC on Monday scrapped its planned meeting in April and will decide instead whether to extend output cuts in June, once the market has assessed the impact…
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