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Apple’s 2017 iPhone Models Give Taiwan’s Weary Tech Sector a Reprieve

Apple’s 2017 iPhone Models Give Taiwan’s Weary Tech Sector a Reprieve

A boom in production of Apple iPhones is helping lift the economy of Taiwan, an industrial center that still relies...

Bitcoin Futures Begin Trading on CME, Price Declines

Bitcoin Futures Begin Trading on CME, Price Declines

Another security based on the price of bitcoin, the digital currency that has soared in value and volatility this year,...

Stake in Vietnam’s Top Brewer for Sale, But Bids Few

Stake in Vietnam’s Top Brewer for Sale, But Bids Few

Vietnam is set to auction up to a $5 billion stake in top brewer Sabeco on Monday, with Thai Beverage...

Trump Sells Republican Tax Bill to Job Seekers, Middle Class

Trump Sells Republican Tax Bill to Job Seekers, Middle Class

U.S. President Donald Trump continued to tout the Republican tax bill Saturday, saying “everybody’s going to benefit” if it is...

New Kind of Retirement Community: A Little India in Silicon Valley 

New Kind of Retirement Community: A Little India in Silicon Valley 

With people coming from around the world to work in Silicon Valley, some struggle with the best ways to care...

Indian Retirees Maintain Independence, Fun and Freedom Later in Life

Indian Retirees Maintain Independence, Fun and Freedom Later in Life

Young people come from around the world to work in Silicon Valley, California. As these workers build a life away...

Britain Seeks ‘Bespoke’ EU Trade Deal, Pact With China

Britain Seeks ‘Bespoke’ EU Trade Deal, Pact With China

British Finance Minister Philip Hammond said Saturday it is likely Britain will want to negotiate a bespoke arrangement for a...

Huge Tax Bill Heads for Passage as GOP Senators Fall in Line

Huge Tax Bill Heads for Passage as GOP Senators Fall in Line

After weeks of quarrels and qualms and then 11th-hour horse-trading, Republicans revealed their huge national tax rewrite late Friday, along with...

Facebook Highlights Dangers of Using Facebook

Facebook Highlights Dangers of Using Facebook

With nearly 2 billion users, Facebook’s survival depends on people continuing to use its service.  That’s why observers were surprised...

Powerful CEOs Demand DACA Fix

Powerful CEOs Demand DACA Fix

Two titans of U.S. business have come together to demand that Congress find an immediate solution for DACA recipients, whose...

US Prosecutors Move to Cash in on $8.5M in Seized Bitcoin

US Prosecutors Move to Cash in on $8.5M in Seized Bitcoin

U.S. attorneys in Utah prosecuting a multimillion-dollar opioid drug-ring are moving quickly to sell seized bitcoin that’s exploded in value...

German Government Says It Backs ‘Open and Free Internet’

German Government Says It Backs ‘Open and Free Internet’

The German government says it backs an “open and free internet” following the U.S. decision to repeal net neutrality rules....

Trump Touts Progress on Slashing Federal Regulations

Trump Touts Progress on Slashing Federal Regulations

U.S. President Donald Trump has touted progress on slashing federal regulations, which he says cost America trillions with no benefit....

What Is Net Neutrality?

What Is Net Neutrality?

“Net neutrality” regulations, designed to prevent internet service providers like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Charter from favoring some sites and...

FCC Scraps Net Neutrality Rules in US

FCC Scraps Net Neutrality Rules in US

There could soon be a major change in what Americans see on the internet after federal regulators voted Thursday to...

Disney to Buy Fox Film, TV Businesses for $52 Billion

Disney to Buy Fox Film, TV Businesses for $52 Billion

Walt Disney Co on Thursday agreed to buy film, TV and international assets from Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc...

Brexit Talks Due to Get Green Light to Move on to Trade

Brexit Talks Due to Get Green Light to Move on to Trade

The European Union’s leaders are due to say Friday that the Brexit talks with Britain can move on to the...

As ‘Net Neutrality’ Vote Nears, Some Brace for Long Fight

As ‘Net Neutrality’ Vote Nears, Some Brace for Long Fight

As the federal government prepares to unravel sweeping net-neutrality rules that guaranteed equal access to the internet, advocates of the...

Blockchain — The New Must-Know Word

Blockchain — The New Must-Know Word

There is a new word in the English language that all internet users should learn, because it may define the...

Microsoft Updates Bing Search to Highlight Reputable Results

Microsoft Updates Bing Search to Highlight Reputable Results

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out new features on its Bing search engine powered by artificial intelligence, including one that summarizes...

Sweet Victory: French Candymakers Win China Legal War

Sweet Victory: French Candymakers Win China Legal War

Revenge is sweet for the makers of France’s traditional “calisson” candies, who have won a months-long legal battle with a...

Tanzania Orders Tighter Controls on Currency, Bank Crackdown as Growth Slows

Tanzania Orders Tighter Controls on Currency, Bank Crackdown as Growth Slows

Tanzanian president John Magufuli ordered the central bank on Wednesday to tighten controls on the movement of hard currency and...