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China Investment Law Fails to Deliver, Raises Concerns

China Investment Law Fails to Deliver, Raises Concerns

China’s top legislature is expected to pass the country’s first Foreign Investment Law this week at a time when negotiators...

Instagram Returns After Outage; Facebook Still Down for Some

Instagram Returns After Outage; Facebook Still Down for Some

Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for more than several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said...

Trump Says He is in No Rush to Complete China Trade Deal

Trump Says He is in No Rush to Complete China Trade Deal

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China and...

Democrats Cool Toward NAFTA Replacement, Question Labor Standards

Democrats Cool Toward NAFTA Replacement, Question Labor Standards

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives gave a cool reception to the replacement for the North American Free Trade...

Facebook, Instagram Suffer Outages

Facebook, Instagram Suffer Outages

Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, and is working to resolve...

Spotify Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple 

Spotify Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple 

Spotify has filed a complaint with European Union antitrust regulators against Apple, saying the iPhone maker unfairly limits rivals to its own...

Tech To Soon Offer Way for People to Interact Across Generations

Tech To Soon Offer Way for People to Interact Across Generations

Google, Amazon and Apple have capitalized on technology that makes virtual personal assistants possible.  Now a new application allows the user...

Trade Chief: US Working on Steel, Aluminum Tariff Relief for Mexico, Canada

Trade Chief: US Working on Steel, Aluminum Tariff Relief for Mexico, Canada

The United States is working on a plan to lift tariffs from Mexican and Canadian steel and aluminum but preserve...

Lopez Obrador Rebuts Finance Ministry over $2.5B Mexico Refinery Funding

Lopez Obrador Rebuts Finance Ministry over $2.5B Mexico Refinery Funding

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday denied any delay to a flagship refinery project in his home state...

Official: US Plans ‘Very Significant’ Additional Venezuela Sanctions

Official: US Plans ‘Very Significant’ Additional Venezuela Sanctions

The United States is preparing to impose “very significant” Venezuela-related sanctions against financial institutions in the coming days, U.S. special...

Number of Older US Renters Spikes 43%

Number of Older US Renters Spikes 43%

Carmen Perry decided to rent rather than buy immediately after she divorced her husband and sold the family home. The...

Self-driving Test Vehicle Added to Auto History Museum

Self-driving Test Vehicle Added to Auto History Museum

One of General Motors’ first self-driving test vehicles is going on display at an automotive history museum in suburban Detroit....

At Age 30, World Wide Web Is ‘Not the Web We Wanted’

At Age 30, World Wide Web Is ‘Not the Web We Wanted’

At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing...

US Warns of WTO Action Over ‘Discriminatory’ New Digital Taxes

US Warns of WTO Action Over ‘Discriminatory’ New Digital Taxes

The U.S. is weighing a complaint at the World Trade Organization against “discriminatory” new taxes on digital giants such as...

US Warns Germany a Huawei Deal Could Hurt Intelligence Sharing

US Warns Germany a Huawei Deal Could Hurt Intelligence Sharing

The United States on Monday warned Germany about future “information sharing” if it uses “untrusted vendors” in its 5G telecom...

As Sanctions on N. Korea Remain, Kim’s Economic Development Goals May Recede

As Sanctions on N. Korea Remain, Kim’s Economic Development Goals May Recede

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may not be able to achieve his economic development goals given the divergent ideas...

Apple: ‘It’s Show Time’ March 25, TV Service Announcement Expected

Apple: ‘It’s Show Time’ March 25, TV Service Announcement Expected

Apple on Monday invited media to a March 25 event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino,...

UN Probing North Korea Sanctions Violations in 20 Countries

UN Probing North Korea Sanctions Violations in 20 Countries

U.N. experts say they are investigating possible violations of United Nations sanctions on North Korea in about 20 countries, from...

Popular Boeing Jet Under Scrutiny After Crash

Popular Boeing Jet Under Scrutiny After Crash

The United States told international carriers on Monday that the Boeing 737 Max 8 is airworthy as regulators scrutinize two...

Amazon Domain Battle Rages as Internet Overseer Postpones Decision

Amazon Domain Battle Rages as Internet Overseer Postpones Decision

Brazil on Monday thanked the global body that oversees internet addresses for extending until April a deadline for Amazon basin...

Alexa, Are You Male or Female? ‘Sexist’ Virtual Assistants Go Gender-Neutral

Alexa, Are You Male or Female? ‘Sexist’ Virtual Assistants Go Gender-Neutral

Barking orders at a digital device that responds in a woman’s voice can reinforce sexist stereotypes, according to academics and...

In Rural Nepal, Solar Irrigation Helps Keep Families Together

In Rural Nepal, Solar Irrigation Helps Keep Families Together

Bhadri Sarki used to walk for more than an hour to fetch enough water to irrigate just one apple tree....