Business

Economy and business news. Business is the practice of making one’s living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also “any activity or enterprise entered into for profit”

Jewish Leaders Seek Better Policing of Online Hate Speech

Jewish Leaders Seek Better Policing of Online Hate Speech

Jewish leaders called Friday for better policing of hate speech on social media platforms over concerns prompted by recent attacks...

Zuckerberg Accepts That Facebook May Have to Pay More Taxes

Zuckerberg Accepts That Facebook May Have to Pay More Taxes

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to throw his support behind international reforms that would require Silicon Valley tech giants to...

Macron Announces Measures to Protect Ice, Biodiversity of French Mountains

Macron Announces Measures to Protect Ice, Biodiversity of French Mountains

French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a plan to protect glaciers and biodiversity in the French mountains. During a visit...

In Africa, US Sees Trainers as ‘Better Fit’ Than Combat Troops

In Africa, US Sees Trainers as ‘Better Fit’ Than Combat Troops

The United States is trying to ease concerns about its decision to withdraw conventional troops from Africa and replace them...

US Court Halts Pentagon Work with Microsoft on Cloud Contract

US Court Halts Pentagon Work with Microsoft on Cloud Contract

A federal judge in Washington has halted, for now, a major U.S. Defense Department cyber contract, blocking Microsoft Corp. from...

Airport Encounter With Venezuelan Vice President Roils Spanish Politics

Airport Encounter With Venezuelan Vice President Roils Spanish Politics

Spanish opposition parties are calling for an investigation of a mysterious midnight meeting between Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and...

Spain Disputes Tech Show Canceled for Health Motives

Spain Disputes Tech Show Canceled for Health Motives

Organizers of the world’s biggest mobile technology fair insisted Thursday that they canceled the annual Mobile World Congress due to...

Italian Far-Right Leader Matteo Salvini Could Face Trial for Detained Migrants

Italian Far-Right Leader Matteo Salvini Could Face Trial for Detained Migrants

Italy’s far-right leader, Matteo Salvini, Thursday defended his position not to allow more than 100 migrants, who had been rescued...

Ex-Ukraine Ambassador: State Department Leaders Lack Vision

Ex-Ukraine Ambassador: State Department Leaders Lack Vision

The career U.S. diplomat who was ousted from her post in Ukraine by President Donald Trump, then was criticized by...

Amid Soaring Tensions, Leaders Prepare for Key Global Security Summit

Amid Soaring Tensions, Leaders Prepare for Key Global Security Summit

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Pentagon chief Mark Esper will join hundreds of global leaders in Germany Friday...

British Finance Minister Unexpectedly Resigns

British Finance Minister Unexpectedly Resigns

British Finance Minister Sajid Javid announced his resignation Thursday, a development that came unexpectedly as Prime Minister Boris Johnson reorganizes...

Spanish Tech Show Assessing Cost of Cancellation Over Virus

Spanish Tech Show Assessing Cost of Cancellation Over Virus

Organizers of the world’s biggest mobile technology fair say the cost of cancelling the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) is...

Questions, Scars Remain as France Marks 60 Years Since Nuclear Tests

Questions, Scars Remain as France Marks 60 Years Since Nuclear Tests

France marks the 60th anniversary of nuclear weapons tests that turned it into one of the world’s first nuclear powers.  That...

Tensions Soar as Leaders Prepare for Key Global Security Summit

Tensions Soar as Leaders Prepare for Key Global Security Summit

Political and military leaders from across the world head to Germany for the three-day Munich Security Conference that opens Friday....

Pompeo Heads to Europe, Africa, Middle East

Pompeo Heads to Europe, Africa, Middle East

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading to the Munich Security Conference, Senegal, Angola, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and Oman, with...

NATO Agrees to Expand Anti-IS Training Mission in Iraq

NATO Agrees to Expand Anti-IS Training Mission in Iraq

NATO has agreed “in principle” to take over some of the training activities carried out by the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic...

Ukrainian Police Major, Ex-Convict Wanted in Arson of RFE/RL’s Reporter’s Car

Ukrainian Police Major, Ex-Convict Wanted in Arson of RFE/RL’s Reporter’s Car

Ukraine’s Prosecutor-General’s Office in Lviv suspects an underworld criminal and a police major of collusion in the arson of a...

Facebook Removes Accounts in Russia, Iran With Alleged Intelligence Links

Facebook Removes Accounts in Russia, Iran With Alleged Intelligence Links

Social media giant Facebook on Wednesday removed two unconnected networks of accounts, pages, and groups “engaging in foreign or government...

Facebook Says It Dismantles Russian Intelligence Operation Targeting Ukraine

Facebook Says It Dismantles Russian Intelligence Operation Targeting Ukraine

Facebook on Wednesday said it had suspended a network of accounts used by Russian military intelligence to seed false narratives...

2 Russians Flee Virus Quarantine, in Dismay at Hospitals

2 Russians Flee Virus Quarantine, in Dismay at Hospitals

One patient jumped out of a hospital window to escape her quarantine and another managed to break out by disabling...

Departure of Merkel Heir-Apparent Throws German Politics Into Disarray

Departure of Merkel Heir-Apparent Throws German Politics Into Disarray

The surprise decision by Angela Merkel’s heir apparent to quit as leader of Germany’s largest party has thrown the country’s...

Russian Video Prank of Putin in Elevator Goes Viral

Russian Video Prank of Putin in Elevator Goes Viral

A Russia blogger has gone viral with a video prank that inadvertently goes to the heart of a debate over...