Posts by Newsmaker

A Silicon Valley Job Fair Caters to New Immigrants and Refugees

A Silicon Valley Job Fair Caters to New Immigrants and Refugees

More than a million college-educated immigrants in the U.S. are in low skilled jobs, according to estimates. But they have...

Digital World Provides Benefits and Risks for Children

Digital World Provides Benefits and Risks for Children

The U.N. Children’s Fund says the explosion of digital technology and growing internet access holds both benefits and risks for...

Traders Brace for Launch of Bitcoin Futures Market

Traders Brace for Launch of Bitcoin Futures Market

The newest way to bet on bitcoin, the cyptocurrency that has taken Wall Street by storm with its stratospheric price...

North Dakota: The Silicon Valley of Drones

North Dakota: The Silicon Valley of Drones

North Dakota’s vast flatlands have long been known for fertile fields of canola seeds, grazing cattle, and oil drilling. But...

Satellite Technology Helps Protect Ocean Wildlife

Satellite Technology Helps Protect Ocean Wildlife

Scientists around the world are increasingly using satellite technology to study life on earth. Small, inexpensive transponders attached to animals...

Argentina Blocks Two Activists From Entry on Eve of WTO Meeting

Argentina Blocks Two Activists From Entry on Eve of WTO Meeting

Argentina blocked two European activists from entering the country on the eve of the World Trade Organization’s ministerial meeting in...

Three Central Banks, Three Economic Outlooks for 2018

Three Central Banks, Three Economic Outlooks for 2018

Three central banks, meeting on both sides of the Atlantic, will highlight the diverging fortunes of the world’s biggest economies...

US Economy Adding Jobs, But Employers Say Skills Gap is Rising

US Economy Adding Jobs, But Employers Say Skills Gap is Rising

The U.S. economy posted another impressive month, adding 228,000 jobs in November. The unemployment rate, now at a 17-year low,...

Wind, Fire, Ash Destroy Much of California Avocado Crop

Wind, Fire, Ash Destroy Much of California Avocado Crop

The wildfire that roared through the orchards of California’s Ventura County destroyed much of the region’s avocado crop not just...

‘Worker Bee’ Round of NAFTA Talks to Focus on Easier Chapters

‘Worker Bee’ Round of NAFTA Talks to Focus on Easier Chapters

NAFTA trade negotiators convene in Washington next week for a limited round of talks unlikely to move the needle on...

UN Calls on Social Media Giants to Control Platforms Used to Lure African Migrants

UN Calls on Social Media Giants to Control Platforms Used to Lure African Migrants

The U.N. migration agency called on social media giants Friday to make it harder for people smugglers to use their...

Net Neutrality Advocates Speak Up as FCC Set to Strike Down Rules

Net Neutrality Advocates Speak Up as FCC Set to Strike Down Rules

Net neutrality is a simple concept but a dense and often technical issue that has been argued over for years...

Bangladesh Asks NY Fed to Help it Recover Stolen Millions

Bangladesh Asks NY Fed to Help it Recover Stolen Millions

Bangladesh’s central bank has asked the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to join a lawsuit it plans to file...

Ford to Test New Self-driving Vehicle Technology in 2018

Ford to Test New Self-driving Vehicle Technology in 2018

Ford Motor Co will begin testing its latest self-driving vehicle technology next year in at least one city but has...

Report: Ethiopia Targeted Dissidents, Journalists With International Spyware Attacks 

Report: Ethiopia Targeted Dissidents, Journalists With International Spyware Attacks 

Since 2016, the Ethiopian government has targeted dissidents and journalists in nearly two dozen countries with spyware provided by an...

Bitcoin Worth Millions Stolen Days Before US Exchange Opens

Bitcoin Worth Millions Stolen Days Before US Exchange Opens

A bitcoin mining company in Slovenia has been hacked for the possible theft of tens of millions of dollars, just...

New Apps, Gadgets on Display at this Year’s TechCrunch Berlin

New Apps, Gadgets on Display at this Year’s TechCrunch Berlin

Those apps on your phone are expected to earn their developers about $77 billion this year.  Some entrepreneurs who are...

China’s Sinopec Sues Venezuela in Sign of Fraying Relations

China’s Sinopec Sues Venezuela in Sign of Fraying Relations

Sinopec USA, a subsidiary of the Chinese oil and gas conglomerate, has sued Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA in a...

‘Swiss-Made’ Label Lacks Precision for Watch Industry

‘Swiss-Made’ Label Lacks Precision for Watch Industry

If you buy a “Swiss-made” watch thinking it’s almost entirely produced in Switzerland, you might be mistaken. The manufacture of...

China’s Exports to Cuba Slump as Island’s Cash Crunch Deepens

China’s Exports to Cuba Slump as Island’s Cash Crunch Deepens

Chinese exports to Cuba have plunged this year in the latest sign of a worsening in the Communist-run island’s financial...

Driverless Buses Take to Some Roads in California

Driverless Buses Take to Some Roads in California

Imagine the day you board a bus and it starts moving. It obeys all traffic signs and stops at signal...

Apple CEO Hopeful Banned Apps Will Return to China Store

Apple CEO Hopeful Banned Apps Will Return to China Store

Apple’s chief executive said Wednesday he’s optimistic some apps that fell afoul of China’s tight internet laws will eventually be...