Posts by Newsmaker

Silicon Valley Startup Peddles 3-D-printed Bike

Silicon Valley Startup Peddles 3-D-printed Bike

After a career that included helping Alphabet’s Google build out data centers and speeding packages for Amazon.com to customers, Jim...

Switzerland Seeks a Study of Starting Its Own Cryptocurrency

Switzerland Seeks a Study of Starting Its Own Cryptocurrency

Switzerland’s government has requested a report into the risks and opportunities of launching its own cryptocurrency, a so-called “e-franc” that...

New US Sanctions Hit at Hezbollah-Linked Financier, Companies

New US Sanctions Hit at Hezbollah-Linked Financier, Companies

The United States sought on Thursday to further choke off funding sources for Iranian-backed Hezbollah, imposing sanctions on its representative...

UN Forecasting Global Economy Will Expand by Over 3 Percent

UN Forecasting Global Economy Will Expand by Over 3 Percent

The United Nations is forecasting that the global economy will expand by more than 3 percent this year and next...

European Commission to Move to Block US Sanctions on Iran

European Commission to Move to Block US Sanctions on Iran

The European Commission will initiate plans Friday to prohibit European companies from adhering to U.S. sanctions against Iran, a move...

German-Russian Pipeline Project Takes Shape Amid US Protest

German-Russian Pipeline Project Takes Shape Amid US Protest

Sparks fly and machines whir as workers busily prepare thousands of steel pipes that will become part of a vast...

Iran Signs Oil Deal With UK Group as France’s Total Exits

Iran Signs Oil Deal With UK Group as France’s Total Exits

Iranian state TV is reporting that the country has signed an agreement with a British consortium to develop an oil...

Argentina’s Currency Crisis Over, Macri says

Argentina’s Currency Crisis Over, Macri says

President Mauricio Macri says Argentina’s currency crisis is over, speaking as the country’s currency rebounded some and prices for its...

US Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality

US Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality

The U.S. Senate voted 52-47 to overturn the FCC’s 2017 repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules, with all Democrats and...

Amsterdam Determined to Tame Tourism

Amsterdam Determined to Tame Tourism

Amsterdam unveiled far-reaching plans Wednesday to rein in tourism, reflecting the dissatisfaction of many residents who feel the city’s historic center has...

US Pushes for NAFTA Deal as Thursday Deadline Approaches

US Pushes for NAFTA Deal as Thursday Deadline Approaches

The United States is pushing for a deal in negotiations on a revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the...

Facebook’s Zuckerberg, EU Lawmakers to Discuss Data Privacy

Facebook’s Zuckerberg, EU Lawmakers to Discuss Data Privacy

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is slated to meet privately in Brussels as soon as next week with key European lawmakers...

FL Students Develop Anti-Skimming Detector to Stop ATM Hackers

FL Students Develop Anti-Skimming Detector to Stop ATM Hackers

While hackers steal credit card numbers online, other crooks do it directly from the card, at the point where a...

NY Times: US Investigating Cambridge Analytica

NY Times: US Investigating Cambridge Analytica

The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are investigating Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct political data firm embroiled in a scandal...

Study: US Insurers Unprepared for Climate Change Disasters 

Study: US Insurers Unprepared for Climate Change Disasters 

Most U.S. insurance companies have not adapted their strategies to address the dangers of climate change, making them likely to...

Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ Adapted for Video Game

Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ Adapted for Video Game

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to...

Mexico Central Bank to Create Cybersecurity Unit After Hack

Mexico Central Bank to Create Cybersecurity Unit After Hack

Mexico’s central bank said Tuesday that it was creating a cybersecurity unit, following a hack on a domestic payments system...

US Lawmakers Push Back on Trump Talk of Helping China’s ZTE

US Lawmakers Push Back on Trump Talk of Helping China’s ZTE

U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday rejected any plan by President Donald Trump to ease restrictions on China’s ZTE Corp, calling the...

US Senate Preps for Net Neutrality Vote

US Senate Preps for Net Neutrality Vote

Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch campaign to preserve so-called “net neutrality” that has prevented certain content or users from...

UN Prepares to Boost Food Aid to North Korea

UN Prepares to Boost Food Aid to North Korea

The head of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Tuesday said the North Korean leadership is hopeful that...

US China Sending Signals, but is Deal Close?

US China Sending Signals, but is Deal Close?

Even before US and Chinese officials sit down this week for a second round of high-level trade talks in Washington,...

China Tech Giants Bet on Untangling Logistics of Indonesian E-commerce

China Tech Giants Bet on Untangling Logistics of Indonesian E-commerce

In a warehouse on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital, supervisors at e-commerce company Lazada use bikes or electric scooters to...