Posts by Newsmaker

Amazon Wades Into Health Care With Berkshire, JPMorgan

Amazon Wades Into Health Care With Berkshire, JPMorgan

Amazon is diving into health care, teaming up with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the New York bank JPMorgan Chase,...

As Trade Tensions Rise With US, China Prepares to Retaliate

As Trade Tensions Rise With US, China Prepares to Retaliate

As trade tensions grow between the United States and China, there is concern among foreign companies in China that a...

Nutella Scuffles: France Investigates Discounts After Frenzy

Nutella Scuffles: France Investigates Discounts After Frenzy

French consumer fraud authorities are investigating a promotional campaign for Nutella that prompted scuffles in several supermarkets – and even...

Trump to Herald Economic Progress in State of the Union

Trump to Herald Economic Progress in State of the Union

President Donald Trump will herald a robust economy and push for bipartisan congressional action on immigration in Tuesday’s State of...

Car Manufacturers Boast of Fuel Efficiency

Car Manufacturers Boast of Fuel Efficiency

The annual Washington Auto Show is not the biggest or the most important convention of the year, but it still...

Concern Fitness Tracking App Exposed US Military Bases Just the Start

Concern Fitness Tracking App Exposed US Military Bases Just the Start

The controversy over information gathered from GPS-enabled fitness devices and published online – in some cases highlighting possible activity at...

US Rejects Proposals to Unblock NAFTA, But Will Stay in Talks

US Rejects Proposals to Unblock NAFTA, But Will Stay in Talks

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade chief on Monday dismissed Canadian proposals for unblocking NAFTA modernization talks but pledged to stay...

Alibaba Looks to Modernize Olympics Starting in Pyeongchang

Alibaba Looks to Modernize Olympics Starting in Pyeongchang

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., one of the few Olympics sponsors signed up until 2028, said it wants to upgrade the...

Mozambique Takes Legal Action Over $2 Billion Loans

Mozambique Takes Legal Action Over $2 Billion Loans

Mozambique’s Attorney General has filed a legal complaint against officials and state-owned companies involved in securing $2 billion in loans...

Experts: Amazon’s ‘HQ2’ Will Bring Strain as Well as Gain to Winning City

Experts: Amazon’s ‘HQ2’ Will Bring Strain as Well as Gain to Winning City

As the 20 shortlisted cities vying to host Amazon.com’s second North American headquarters hone their bids to attract thousands of...

Delivery Robots Find Work in Hotels, Hospitals and Beyond

Delivery Robots Find Work in Hotels, Hospitals and Beyond

Coming to a hotel or hospital near you may be a robot that makes deliveries.  Companies are creating robots to...

Map of GPS Fitness Activity Sparks Military Security Concerns

Map of GPS Fitness Activity Sparks Military Security Concerns

The U.S. military says it is evaluating its policies after a global map of fitness activity drew attention to possible...

New York to Probe Firms that Sells Fake Social Media Followers

New York to Probe Firms that Sells Fake Social Media Followers

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation of a firm that allegedly sold millions of fake...

IKEA Furniture Magnate Ingvar Kamprad Dies at 91

IKEA Furniture Magnate Ingvar Kamprad Dies at 91

Ingvar Kamprad, who founded Sweden’s IKEA furniture brand and transformed it into a worldwide business empire, has died at the...

Mumbai’s Dharavi Breaks Stereotypes of Slum for Foreign Tourists

Mumbai’s Dharavi Breaks Stereotypes of Slum for Foreign Tourists

Why has Mumbai’s largest slum, which packs some one million people in about two square kilometers, emerged as an unlikely...

Trump Lauds US Economic Performance

Trump Lauds US Economic Performance

U.S. President Donald Trump touted the continued growth of the U.S. economy on Sunday, saying it is “better than it...

Scientists Create a New Type of Hologram

Scientists Create a New Type of Hologram

Projecting three-dimensional (3D) images in thin air, called holography, moved from science fiction to reality a long time ago. But...

Using Technology to Teach Not Distract

Using Technology to Teach Not Distract

Incorporating technology into learning can sometimes be a slippery slope toward computer distraction. That’s why some of the best new...

Coincheck to Return $425M in Virtual Money Lost to Hackers

Coincheck to Return $425M in Virtual Money Lost to Hackers

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc said Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual money...

EPA Puts Brakes on Approval Process for Gold, Copper Mine

EPA Puts Brakes on Approval Process for Gold, Copper Mine

In a surprise move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed itself Friday and stopped the approval process for the proposed...

Pacific Trade Deal Will Move Forward Without the US

Pacific Trade Deal Will Move Forward Without the US

President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy on trade aims to reverse decades of lopsided exchange by withdrawing from international trade...

Enthusiast Builds a Steam-powered SUV

Enthusiast Builds a Steam-powered SUV

Although long replaced by more efficient types of engines, steam-powered machines still have a certain appeal, and not just for...