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Discharged and Jobless: US Veterans Seek Change in Hiring Rules

Discharged and Jobless: US Veterans Seek Change in Hiring Rules

Military veterans who were discharged for relatively minor offenses say they often can’t get jobs, and they hope a recent...

Broadcom’s Tan, CBS’s Moonves Among Highest-Paid CEOs

Broadcom’s Tan, CBS’s Moonves Among Highest-Paid CEOs

Here are the highest-paid CEOs for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The...

Amazon’s Alexa Accidentally Tapes, Shares Family Chat With Contact

Amazon’s Alexa Accidentally Tapes, Shares Family Chat With Contact

A Portland, Oregon, family has learned what happens when Amazon.com Inc’s popular voice assistant Alexa is lost in translation. Amazon...

China Snaps up US Oil, Straining Capacity to Export It

China Snaps up US Oil, Straining Capacity to Export It

The U.S. oil export infrastructure is straining to keep up as the country’s crude oil exports hit new highs and...

Brazil: Deal Reached to Suspend Crippling Trucker Strike

Brazil: Deal Reached to Suspend Crippling Trucker Strike

Brazil’s government said late Thursday that a deal had been reached with truckers to suspend a 4-day-old strike that caused...

Jury: Samsung Owes Apple $539M for Copying iPhone

Jury: Samsung Owes Apple $539M for Copying iPhone

A jury has decided Samsung must pay Apple $539 million in damages for illegally copying some of the iPhone’s features...

FBI Taps Private Industry to Bring Down Hacker Clearinghouse

FBI Taps Private Industry to Bring Down Hacker Clearinghouse

When a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, convicted a Latvian software developer last week of running an underground clearinghouse for...

Trump Signs Bill Easing Restraints on Small US Banks

Trump Signs Bill Easing Restraints on Small US Banks

U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law Thursday a measure that eases rules imposed on banks in the aftermath of...

Africa in Spotlight at Paris Tech Fair

Africa in Spotlight at Paris Tech Fair

French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will invest $76 million in African startups, saying innovation on the continent is...

Buffalo: City With a Magnificent Past Fallen on Hard Times

Buffalo: City With a Magnificent Past Fallen on Hard Times

Even though the United States is one of the richest and most technologically advanced countries in the world, about 45...

Deutsche Bank to Slash Thousands of Jobs to Control Costs 

Deutsche Bank to Slash Thousands of Jobs to Control Costs 

Germany’s struggling Deutsche Bank is slashing thousands of jobs as it reshapes its stocks trading operation and refocuses its global...

Mapping the Oceans’ Floors by 2030

Mapping the Oceans’ Floors by 2030

Oceanographers often say we know much more about the surface of the Moon and Mars than we do about nearly...

Amazon, Starbucks Pledge Money to Repeal Seattle Head Tax

Amazon, Starbucks Pledge Money to Repeal Seattle Head Tax

Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan and other companies have pledged a total of more than $350,000 toward an effort to repeal Seattle’s...

Post-Mugabe, Zimbabweans Still Waiting for Economic Uptick

Post-Mugabe, Zimbabweans Still Waiting for Economic Uptick

This week marks six months since Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa took office, after Robert Mugabe gave in to military pressure...

Twitter to Add Special Labels to Political Candidates in US

Twitter to Add Special Labels to Political Candidates in US

Twitter says it’s adding special labels to tweets from some U.S. political candidates ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Twitter...

Ethiopia Opens Telecoms Sector to Limited Competition

Ethiopia Opens Telecoms Sector to Limited Competition

Ethiopia’s state-run telecoms monopoly has agreed to allow some local firms to provide internet services through its infrastructure, a move...

Turkish Currency Hits Record Low Amid Erdogan Concerns

Turkish Currency Hits Record Low Amid Erdogan Concerns

Turkey’s currency has fallen to a record low against the dollar amid concerns about an outflow of investor capital and...

France’s Macron Takes on Facebook’s Zuckerberg in Tech Push

France’s Macron Takes on Facebook’s Zuckerberg in Tech Push

French President Emmanuel Macron is taking on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other internet giants at a Paris meeting to...

Africa at Special Risk From Cyber Attacks, Warn Experts

Africa at Special Risk From Cyber Attacks, Warn Experts

The dangers posed by cybercrime are on the rise across the globe – with high profile incidents like the recent...

Official: Trump Administration to Publish Proposed Rule Changes for Gun Exports

Official: Trump Administration to Publish Proposed Rule Changes for Gun Exports

The Trump administration is preparing to publish on Thursday long-delayed proposed rule changes for the export of U.S. firearms, a...

Amazon Is Warned About Government Use of Facial Recognition

Amazon Is Warned About Government Use of Facial Recognition

U.S. civil liberties groups on Tuesday called on Amazon.com Inc. to stop offering facial recognition services to governments, warning that the software...

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Apologizes to EU Lawmakers

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Apologizes to EU Lawmakers

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized to EU lawmakers on Tuesday, saying the company had not done enough to prevent...