Posts by Newsmaker

South Sudan Dispute With Mobile Firm Disrupts Service

South Sudan Dispute With Mobile Firm Disrupts Service

Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese remained without mobile phone service Friday, as network operator Vivacell continued a standoff with...

Amid Flood of Chinese Products, India Wants Fairness

Amid Flood of Chinese Products, India Wants Fairness

Sampad Yadav, who sells electrical goods in a shop in the business hub of Gurugram on the outskirts of New...

Vietnam Stands to See Modest Wins if China, U.S. Start Trade War

Vietnam Stands to See Modest Wins if China, U.S. Start Trade War

A wider Sino-U.S. trade dispute would help export-reliant Vietnam compete against Chinese companies but put the country at risk of...

Rivers and Tides Can Provide Affordable Power

Rivers and Tides Can Provide Affordable Power

While wind turbines and solar cells generate power only when there is wind and sun, most rivers always flow and...

NY Auto Show Features Electric, Self-Driving Cars

NY Auto Show Features Electric, Self-Driving Cars

A recent fatality involving one of Uber’s self-driving cars may have created uncertainty and doubt regarding the future of autonomous...

Tech Giants Tackle Online Wildlife Trafficking

Tech Giants Tackle Online Wildlife Trafficking

A new coalition of tech giants and conservationists is looking to drastically reduce the amount of wild, and often endangered,...

Ads Pulled from Ingraham Show After She Mocked Parkland Survivor

Ads Pulled from Ingraham Show After She Mocked Parkland Survivor

At least three companies said Thursday they were pulling advertisements from a Fox News show hosted by conservative pundit Laura...

New York Offers Free Cybersecurity Tools to Public to Deter Hackers

New York Offers Free Cybersecurity Tools to Public to Deter Hackers

New York City will offer free cybersecurity tools to the public as part of a new effort to improve online...

In Cuba, Vietnam Communist Party Chief Advocates Economic Reforms

In Cuba, Vietnam Communist Party Chief Advocates Economic Reforms

The head of Vietnam’s Communist Party advocated for the importance of market-oriented economic reforms on a two-day visit to old...

Utility Plans to Close Nuclear Plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania

Utility Plans to Close Nuclear Plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania

FirstEnergy Corp. said it will shut down three nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania within the next three years, making...

Facebook Says It’s Making Progress in Election Preparedness

Facebook Says It’s Making Progress in Election Preparedness

Facebook says it is making progress weeding out fake accounts and fake news on its service. The moves are aimed...

Uber Avoids Legal Battle With Family of Self-Driving Vehicle Victim

Uber Avoids Legal Battle With Family of Self-Driving Vehicle Victim

The family of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with...

US, Canada Differ on Quick NAFTA Resolution

US, Canada Differ on Quick NAFTA Resolution

The Trump administration is hopeful it can reach a deal on a new North American Free Trade Agreement before the...

Entrepreneur: ‘Anyone Can Play a Role’ in African Innovation

Entrepreneur: ‘Anyone Can Play a Role’ in African Innovation

While working for a big consulting firm in Lagos, Nigeria, Afua Osei repeatedly encountered women who wanted to advance professionally...

Adobe New Service Aims to Follow Users Across Multiple Devices

Adobe New Service Aims to Follow Users Across Multiple Devices

Visiting Subway’s website on a personal computer might not seem to have anything to do with checking the NFL’s app...

3 Facebook Messenger App Users File Lawsuit Over Privacy

3 Facebook Messenger App Users File Lawsuit Over Privacy

Three Facebook Messenger app users have filed a lawsuit claiming the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of...

Robots Pose Big Threat to Jobs in Africa, Researchers Warn

Robots Pose Big Threat to Jobs in Africa, Researchers Warn

It could soon be cheaper to operate a factory of robots in the United States than employing manual labor in...

Israeli Company Converts Trash Into Household Items

Israeli Company Converts Trash Into Household Items

There is a saying that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. That is the idea behind a new concept...

China at a Quandary With US Tech Firms Amid Trade Dispute

China at a Quandary With US Tech Firms Amid Trade Dispute

While China and the United States seem to be negotiating in an effort to avert a trade war, Washington is...

Expert Says Brexit Campaign Used Data Mined From Facebook

Expert Says Brexit Campaign Used Data Mined From Facebook

The computer expert who sparked a global debate over electronic privacy said Tuesday that the official campaign backing Britain’s exit...

Trump’s Approval Ratings Are on the Upswing

Trump’s Approval Ratings Are on the Upswing

With a robust U.S. economy, polls show that President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are on the upswing, even as a...

Saudi Crown Prince: OPEC, Russia Consider Long-Term Oil Pact

Saudi Crown Prince: OPEC, Russia Consider Long-Term Oil Pact

OPEC and Russia are working on a long-term deal to cooperate on oil supply curbs that could extend controls over...