In Chinese Port City, Japan’s Toyota Lays Foundation to Ramp Up Sales
Toyota is likely to make 120,000 more cars a year in the Chinese port city of Tianjin as part of...
VOA Interview: Kara Swisher
Greta Van Susteren talks to technology journalist Kara Swisher about cybersecurity and privacy. …
Report: US SEC Subpoenas Tesla Over Musk’s Tweets
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sent subpoenas to Tesla Inc. regarding Chief Executive Elon Musk’s plans to take...
US Retail Sales Rise Solidly; Productivity Accelerates
U.S. retail sales rose more than expected in July as households boosted purchases of motor vehicles and clothing, suggesting the...
US University Puts Electronic Assistants in All Student Housing
One American university is putting electronic voice-controlled assistants in every student housing room on campus. Saint Louis University recently announced...
How To Tell if Art is Real or Fake? Ask Scientists at the Met
How do you know if a piece of art is real or fake? Ask a scientist. At New York’s Metropolitan...
Turkey Boosts Tariffs Amid US Feud
Turkey on Wednesday announced tariff hikes on a range of U.S. goods in the latest back-and-forth move amid a deteriorating...
Cubans Cheer as Internet Goes Nationwide for Day
Cuba’s government said it provided free internet to the Communist-run island’s more than 5 million cellphone users on Tuesday, in...
Royal Bank of Scotland Pays $4.9B for Crisis-era Misconduct
Royal Bank of Scotland will pay $4.9 billion to settle U.S. claims that it misled investors on residential mortgage-backed securities...
Ruble Slump Hits Russians’ Wallets, Not Their Support for Putin
Alexei Nikolayev, one of more than 56 million Russians who re-elected President Vladimir Putin in March, is already counting the likely...
Sprint Partners with LG to Launch 5G Smartphone in 2019
Sprint said Tuesday it has partnered with phone manufacturer LG Electronics to launch a 5G smartphone in the first half...
Tesla Appoints Independent Directors to Weigh Any Deal
Tesla’s board named a special committee of three directors on Tuesday to evaluate possibly taking the electric carmaker private, although...
Survey: Vienna Tops Melbourne as World’s Most Liveable City
Vienna has dislodged Melbourne for the first time at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index, strengthening...
Maduro: Venezuela Gasoline Prices Should Rise to International Levels
Venezuela’s heavily subsidized domestic gasoline prices should rise to international levels to avoid billions of dollars in annual losses due...
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Pledges More Than $11B for Refineries
Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his administration will invest more than $11 billion to boost refining...
World’s First Commercial 3D-Printed Concrete Homes Planned
The world will soon have its first batch of commercially available 3D-printed concrete homes. A consortium of the Dutch municipality...
World’s First Commercial 3-D-Printed Concrete Homes Planned
The world will soon have its first batch of commercially available 3-D-printed concrete homes. A consortium of the Dutch municipality...
Tesla’s Slow Disclosure Raises Governance, Social Media Concerns
Tesla’s handling of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s proposal to take the carmaker private and its failure to promptly file a...
How to Find and Delete Where Google Knows You’ve Been
Even if you have “Location History” off, Google often stores your precise location. Here’s how to delete those markers and...
Khamenei: Mismanagement More Harmful Than US Sanctions
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday government mismanagement has hurt Iran’s economy more than U.S. sanctions. U.S. President...
Turkey Announces ‘Action Plan’ to Ease Market Concerns
Asian and European markets were rattled by the Turkish lira’s record low of 7.24 to the dollar overnight. The markets...
Washington DC Reconsiders Cashless Approach
American businesses have long been preparing for a cashless economy as the use of credit and debit cards, instead of...
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