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Canada Prepares for Legalized Marijuana

Canada Prepares for Legalized Marijuana

Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how...

Dow Drops 800-Plus Points as US Stocks Dip Sharply

Dow Drops 800-Plus Points as US Stocks Dip Sharply

U.S. stocks posted their worst loss since February on Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average finishing the day down more than...

Google’s Waze Expands Carpooling Service Throughout US

Google’s Waze Expands Carpooling Service Throughout US

Google will begin offering its pay-to-carpool service throughout the U.S., an effort to reduce the commute-time congestion that its popular...

US Treasury Issues New Rules on Foreign Investments

US Treasury Issues New Rules on Foreign Investments

The Treasury Department has issued new rules on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power...

Zimbabwe’s Dingy Trains Mirror Economic Decline

Zimbabwe’s Dingy Trains Mirror Economic Decline

Dark, dirty and slow, Zimbabwe’s trains, like much else in the impoverished southern African country, have seen better days. Once...

Robots Invade Campus to Deliver Burritos

Robots Invade Campus to Deliver Burritos

Companies race to make self driving automobiles, but there’s another race going on to create robots that can roam through...

US Prosecutors: China Corruption Case Grows Stronger

US Prosecutors: China Corruption Case Grows Stronger

Last month, Patrick Ho, a former Hong Kong official fighting foreign bribery charges in New York, thought he had finally...

Ireland Boosts Budget Spending as Brexit Looms

Ireland Boosts Budget Spending as Brexit Looms

Ireland’s finance minister boosted budget day spending for the second year in a row as the government warned of economic...

‘War’ on Food Waste Can Save Money and Boost Profits, Tech Firm Says

‘War’ on Food Waste Can Save Money and Boost Profits, Tech Firm Says

Wasteless, an Israeli firm seeking to reduce food waste and save consumers money, won $2 million in funding Tuesday, as...

Facebook Seeing Growth in Business Network Workplace

Facebook Seeing Growth in Business Network Workplace

Facebook on Tuesday hosted its first global summit spotlighting a growing Workplace platform launched two years ago as a private...

YouTube Driving Global Consumption of Music

YouTube Driving Global Consumption of Music

If you are listening to music, chances are you’re on YouTube. A music consumer report by the industry’s global body...

Popularity of Electric Scooters Creates Jobs for ‘Juicers’

Popularity of Electric Scooters Creates Jobs for ‘Juicers’

You see them everywhere in U.S. cities — young and old riding rented electric-powered scooters. When they are done, they...

Business is Booming in Vietnam

Business is Booming in Vietnam

Foreign companies have been flocking to Vietnam. Earlier this year, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms Warburg Pincus...

Mahathir: Malaysia May Introduce New Taxes, Sell Assets to Pay Debt

Mahathir: Malaysia May Introduce New Taxes, Sell Assets to Pay Debt

Malaysia may introduce new taxes and sell assets such as land to pay down debt, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said...

Netflix to Bring New US Production Hub to New Mexico

Netflix to Bring New US Production Hub to New Mexico

Netflix has chosen New Mexico as the site of a new U.S. production hub and is in final negotiations to...

WSJ: Google Hid Protracted Data Leak to Avoid Consequences

WSJ: Google Hid Protracted Data Leak to Avoid Consequences

Google exposed the personal data of about 500,000 Google+ users to potential misuse by outside developers for years through a...

Twitter Says it Will Crack Down on Abusers in Letter to Advisers

Twitter Says it Will Crack Down on Abusers in Letter to Advisers

Twitter will strengthen rules rules to prevent sexual harassment and abuse on its platform, the social media company said Monday...

AA Aims to Avoid Putting Delayed Travelers on Other Airlines

AA Aims to Avoid Putting Delayed Travelers on Other Airlines

American Airlines is telling employees to think twice before rebooking stranded customers on rival airlines, and regular economy-class passengers are...

Facebook Wants People to Invite Its Cameras into Their Homes

Facebook Wants People to Invite Its Cameras into Their Homes

Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to make video...

Nobel Economic Prize Awarded to 2 Americans

Nobel Economic Prize Awarded to 2 Americans

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for economics to Yale University’s William Nordhaus and...

Study Reveals First Big look at Chinese Investment in Australia

Study Reveals First Big look at Chinese Investment in Australia

For the first time, researchers have been able to track the amount of Chinese investment in Australia.  From the purchase...

Internet of Things Could Revolutionize City Planning

Internet of Things Could Revolutionize City Planning

The massive breach of Facebook and the exposure of the information of an estimated 50 million users last week has...