Posts by Newsmaker

Amazon Opens ‘Instant Pickup’ Points in US Brick-and-Mortar Push

Amazon Opens ‘Instant Pickup’ Points in US Brick-and-Mortar Push

Amazon.com Inc is rolling out pickup points in the United States where shoppers can retrieve items immediately after ordering them,...

Asked to Serve, Some CEOs Say No More to Trump

Asked to Serve, Some CEOs Say No More to Trump

First it was the leader of a major U.S. pharmaceutical, then the CEO of an athletic gear company, and before...

The Dark and Light Sides of Latest Drone Technology

The Dark and Light Sides of Latest Drone Technology

Drones, small flying machines with cameras mounted on them, have become easily accessible to consumers. Scientists, police and businesses have...

Internet Firms Move to Take Down Hate Speech, Violence

Internet Firms Move to Take Down Hate Speech, Violence

The internet domain registration of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer was revoked twice in less than 24 hours in the...

Ex-head of Mexico’s State Oil Company Denies Taking Bribes

Ex-head of Mexico’s State Oil Company Denies Taking Bribes

The former head of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, a key campaign adviser to President Enrique Pena Nieto, has denied accusations...

Merck CEO Pulls Out of Trump Panel, Demands Rejection of Bigotry

Merck CEO Pulls Out of Trump Panel, Demands Rejection of Bigotry

The chief executive of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies resigned on Monday from a business panel led by...

Guam’s Tourism Popularity Unhurt by North Korea Threats

Guam’s Tourism Popularity Unhurt by North Korea Threats

Tourists haven’t been deterred from visiting the tropical island of Guam even though the U.S. territory has been the target...

First Walking Polymer Could Be Used in Robots

First Walking Polymer Could Be Used in Robots

Synthetic polymers, primarily plastics, are used to make a host of items, from paint to plastic bottles to sunglasses and...

Neo-Nazi Site Moves to Google After GoDaddy Dumps It

Neo-Nazi Site Moves to Google After GoDaddy Dumps It

Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer moved its domain registration to Google after hosting firm GoDaddy said it would sever ties...

Chinese Newspaper Warns Trump Risks ‘Trade War’

Chinese Newspaper Warns Trump Risks ‘Trade War’

A Chinese state newspaper warned Monday that President Donald Trump “could trigger a trade war” if he goes ahead with...

Are Immigrants Driving the Motor City?

Are Immigrants Driving the Motor City?

Beside rows of rusting shipping containers, a decorative wrought iron fence surrounds Taquería Mi Pueblo, one of the first family-run...

Star Tau Ceti Has Two Planets in Habitable Zone

Star Tau Ceti Has Two Planets in Habitable Zone

Scientists from U.S. and Britain have found four planets, slightly larger than Earth, orbiting a star visible with a naked...

Solar Energy ‘Flower’ Harvests Clean Energy

Solar Energy ‘Flower’ Harvests Clean Energy

Some countries depend heavily on fossil fuels for power, including the Philippines. But now a kind of solar energy “flower”...

Beleaguered Detroit Relying on Immigrants to Revitalize City

Beleaguered Detroit Relying on Immigrants to Revitalize City

Detroit, Michigan, knows hardship and recovery. One of the hardest hit areas in the country during the Great Recession, the...

Electric Car Worry: Where Can You Charge It?

Electric Car Worry: Where Can You Charge It?

Around the world, support is growing for electric cars. Automakers are delivering more electric models with longer range and lower...

US Stocks Post Gains Friday After Several Down Days

US Stocks Post Gains Friday After Several Down Days

U.S. stock market indexes posted gains in Friday’s trading, a change in direction after several down days amid tensions between...

Interview: How North Korea Tensions Impact Stock Markets

Interview: How North Korea Tensions Impact Stock Markets

Rising tensions between the United States and North Korea brought a wave of falling stock prices recently as worried investors...

Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks

Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks

U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla is close to testing a long-haul self-driving electric truck that could drive in convoys following...

Google CEO Defends Diversity Efforts

Google CEO Defends Diversity Efforts

Google’s workforce needs to “represent the world in totality,” said Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, at an international girls coding...

Israel, Land of Milk and Honey – and Now Whiskey?

Israel, Land of Milk and Honey – and Now Whiskey?

Israel has been known as the land of milk and honey since Biblical times – but the land of single...

New Cell Technology Works With Ambient Energy

New Cell Technology Works With Ambient Energy

Researchers in the United States have unveiled a prototype of a battery-free mobile phone using technology they hope will eventually...

Oil-state Senators Advise Against US Ban on Venezuela Oil

Oil-state Senators Advise Against US Ban on Venezuela Oil

Four U.S. Senate Republicans from oil-refining states Thursday urged the Trump administration not to block oil shipments from Venezuela as...