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”

 Protesting in the Age of Coronavirus 

 Protesting in the Age of Coronavirus 

How do you protest in the era of the coronavirus?  In Russia, “virtual protesters” have clustered outside government buildings, at a safe social distance, and they post messages online demanding more financial assistance from...

Armenia Decries Crimes Against ‘Civilization’ on Genocide Anniversary

Armenia Decries Crimes Against ‘Civilization’ on Genocide Anniversary

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Friday decried crimes against “civilization” and demanded an apology from Turkey as his country...

Meghan’s Privacy Case Against Tabloid Heard at UK Court

Meghan’s Privacy Case Against Tabloid Heard at UK Court

A preliminary hearing opened Friday at Britain’s High Court in the Duchess of Sussex’s legal action against a British newspaper...

Climate Activists Take Global Protest Online During Pandemic

Climate Activists Take Global Protest Online During Pandemic

Youth groups are staging a long-planned global climate demonstration online Friday because of restrictions on public protests during the coronavirus...

Austria Will Reopen Schools With Split Classes Next Month

Austria Will Reopen Schools With Split Classes Next Month

Austria, which is loosening its coronavirus lockdown, said on Friday that most pupils will go back to school on May...

Countries Take Different Approaches in Lifting Lockdown

Countries Take Different Approaches in Lifting Lockdown

Without a tried-and-tested action plan for how to pull countries out of lockdown, the world is seeing a patchwork of...

EU Approves $580 Billion to Mitigate COVID-19 Consequences

EU Approves $580 Billion to Mitigate COVID-19 Consequences

The European Union approved a $580 billion aid package to help mitigate the consequences of coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in member...

Europeans Start Feeling a Way Out of Coronavirus Lockdowns

Europeans Start Feeling a Way Out of Coronavirus Lockdowns

European governments are rolling out plans outlining how they will start to cautiously unlock their countries and fire up their...

As Coronavirus Hits European Economies, Remittances Plummet    

As Coronavirus Hits European Economies, Remittances Plummet    

A new World Bank study predicts remittances sent home by migrant workers from low- and middle-income countries may plummet by...

Russia’s Journalists Walk Dangerous Tightrope Covering COVID-19 Pandemic

Russia’s Journalists Walk Dangerous Tightrope Covering COVID-19 Pandemic

The Novosibirsk-based news website Taiga.info recently published an interview with a woman who told the independent outlet that she called...

Report: Apple Plans to Sell Macs With Own Chips

Report: Apple Plans to Sell Macs With Own Chips

Apple Inc. plans to sell Mac computers with its own main processors by next year based on the chip designs...

Hungary Accused of Holding Migrants in ‘Unlawful Detention’

Hungary Accused of Holding Migrants in ‘Unlawful Detention’

Hungary was accused on Thursday of holding asylum seekers in a camp on the border with Serbia in “unlawful detention”...

Google to Verify All Advertisers, and Their Location 

Google to Verify All Advertisers, and Their Location 

Google said Thursday it would expand its program of verification of advertisers on its platform as part of an effort...

Polish Couple Fights Prejudice and Virus with Rainbow Face Masks 

Polish Couple Fights Prejudice and Virus with Rainbow Face Masks 

Married gay couple Dawid Mycek and Jakub Kwiecinski say they face frequent abuse in Poland for being part of a...

Merkel Warns Against Easing Restrictions Too Quickly

Merkel Warns Against Easing Restrictions Too Quickly

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned German lawmakers some regions in the nation were moving too quickly to ease COVID-19 restrictions,...

UK Economy Crumbles Under Coronavirus Strain; Questions Mount Over Lockdown Exit

UK Economy Crumbles Under Coronavirus Strain; Questions Mount Over Lockdown Exit

The United Kingdom’s economy is crumbling under the strain of the coronavirus lockdown and government borrowing is soaring to the...

UN Chief Warns Governments to Heed Human Rights in Coronavirus Responses

UN Chief Warns Governments to Heed Human Rights in Coronavirus Responses

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the coronavirus outbreak is “fast becoming a human rights crisis.”In a statement Thursday, he called...

Zoom Boosts Encryption to Quell Safety Concerns as Users Top 300 Million

Zoom Boosts Encryption to Quell Safety Concerns as Users Top 300 Million

Zoom Video Communications Inc. said Wednesday it was upgrading the encryption features on its video conferencing app to quell safety...

Nearly 50 Crew Members on Cruise Ship Docked in Japan Test Positive for Coronavirus

Nearly 50 Crew Members on Cruise Ship Docked in Japan Test Positive for Coronavirus

Japanese health officials say 48 crew members of an Italian cruise ship docked in the port city of Nagasaki have...

Far-Right Hackers Publish 25,000 Email Addresses Allegedly Tied to COVID Fight

Far-Right Hackers Publish 25,000 Email Addresses Allegedly Tied to COVID Fight

Far-right computer hackers have published nearly 25,000 email addresses allegedly belonging to several major organizations fighting the coronavirus pandemic, including...

Dutch Police Release Video of Van Gogh Painting Theft

Dutch Police Release Video of Van Gogh Painting Theft

Police in the Netherlands have released security camera video showing a thief who stole a prized Vincent van Gogh painting...

France, Europe Mull Controversial Coronavirus Tracing Apps

France, Europe Mull Controversial Coronavirus Tracing Apps

France’s parliament votes next week on plans to use a controversial tracing app to help fight the coronavirus, as the...