Posts by Newsmaker

With An Eye on Past Problems, Facebook Expands Local Feature

With An Eye on Past Problems, Facebook Expands Local Feature

Facebook is cautiously expanding a feature that shows people local news and information, including missing-person alerts, road closures, crime reports...

Porsche Shows off New Edition of Mainstay 911 Sports Car

Porsche Shows off New Edition of Mainstay 911 Sports Car

Porsche says its future is in electric cars but for now it is rolling out a more powerful version of...

US Charges 2 Iranian Cybercrminals in Ransomware Scheme

US Charges 2 Iranian Cybercrminals in Ransomware Scheme

In the first case of its kind, the U.S. Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against two alleged Iranian cybercriminals who...

Ocean Shock: Building a Silicon Valley of the Sea

Ocean Shock: Building a Silicon Valley of the Sea

This is part of “Ocean Shock,” a Reuters series exploring climate change’s impact on sea creatures and the people who...

Ahead of G20, Trump Open to Deal with China

Ahead of G20, Trump Open to Deal with China

President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping will meet to discuss trade issues on the sidelines of the G20...

Report: Trump Says ‘Not Even a Little Bit Happy’ with Fed’s Powell

Report: Trump Says ‘Not Even a Little Bit Happy’ with Fed’s Powell

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up his criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, saying rising interest rates...

Google Blocks Gender-Based Pronouns From New AI Tool

Google Blocks Gender-Based Pronouns From New AI Tool

Alphabet Inc’s Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type....

Uber Fined $1.2 Million For 2016 Data Breach

Uber Fined $1.2 Million For 2016 Data Breach

British and Dutch regulators have fined ride-hailing company Uber $1.2 million for what it said were inadequate security measures that...

Lawmakers Criticize Facebook’s Zuckerberg for UK Parliament No-Show

Lawmakers Criticize Facebook’s Zuckerberg for UK Parliament No-Show

Facebook came under fire on Tuesday from lawmakers from several countries who accused the firm of undermining democratic institutions and...

App Shows US, Canadian Commuters the Cleanest, Greenest Route Home

App Shows US, Canadian Commuters the Cleanest, Greenest Route Home

A mobile application launched in dozens of U.S. and Canadian cities on Monday measures the planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions of...

Experts: African Fishing Communities Face ‘Extinction’ as Blue Economy Grows

Experts: African Fishing Communities Face ‘Extinction’ as Blue Economy Grows

Fishing communities along Africa’s coastline are at a greater risk of extinction as countries eye oceans for tourism, industrial fishing...

Traditional Fisherman, Fish Shops Struggle on Kenyan Coast

Traditional Fisherman, Fish Shops Struggle on Kenyan Coast

Marine fisheries are one of the few economic activities present everywhere along the Kenyan coast – mostly using artisanal fishing...

Apple to Tutor Women in Tech in Bid to Diversify Industry

Apple to Tutor Women in Tech in Bid to Diversify Industry

Apple is launching a new program designed to address the technology industry’s scarcity of women in executive and computer programming...

Cameroon Gaming Stars Become Business Superheroes

Cameroon Gaming Stars Become Business Superheroes

One of Cameroon’s first video games studios and most successful digital startups is growing into a major player in the...

GM North America Plant Closures Disappoint Trump, Trudeau

GM North America Plant Closures Disappoint Trump, Trudeau

Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are expressing disappointment with General Motors’ announcement it is...

Ocean Shock: Fishmeal Factories Plunder Africa

Ocean Shock: Fishmeal Factories Plunder Africa

This is part of “Ocean Shock,” a Reuters series exploring climate change’s impact on sea creatures and the people who...

On Cyber Monday, Pope Urges Generosity, Not Consumerism

On Cyber Monday, Pope Urges Generosity, Not Consumerism

Pope Francis says the “sickness of consumerism” is the enemy of generosity as he called for the faithful to give...

Researchers Learn Lessons from Cats’ Tongues

Researchers Learn Lessons from Cats’ Tongues

Scientific curiosity can lead to some surprising, and useful, discoveries. Consider the cat – questions about its sandpaper-like tongue led...

British Lawmakers Warn They Will Vote Against Brexit Deal

British Lawmakers Warn They Will Vote Against Brexit Deal

It took Britain’s Theresa May and 27 other European Union leaders just 40 minutes to sign the Brexit deal after...

S&P 500 Slides Into ‘Correction’ for Second Time This Year 

S&P 500 Slides Into ‘Correction’ for Second Time This Year 

U.S. stocks closed lower after a shortened session Friday, bumping the benchmark S&P 500 index into a correction, or drop...

In Era of Online Retail, Black Friday Still Lures a Crowd   

In Era of Online Retail, Black Friday Still Lures a Crowd   

It would have been easy to turn on their computers at home over plates of leftover turkey and take advantage...

China: WTO Changes Must Support Developing Countries

China: WTO Changes Must Support Developing Countries

China will go along with changes meant to update global trade rules so long as they protect Beijing’s status as...