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”

Pentagon Issues New Guidance on Zoom Use

Pentagon Issues New Guidance on Zoom Use

The Department of Defense has issued new guidance on the use of the popular videoconferencing application Zoom following a week-old...

Apple, Google to Harness Phones for Virus Infection Tracking

Apple, Google to Harness Phones for Virus Infection Tracking

Apple and Google on Friday launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.New software...

Global Move to Telecommute Work Increases Security Risks

Global Move to Telecommute Work Increases Security Risks

As countries scramble to control the coronavirus pandemic with stay-at-home orders, millions of people around the world have turned to...

COVID-19 Diaries: Stories of Desperation Are Going Unheard

COVID-19 Diaries: Stories of Desperation Are Going Unheard

I knew I was in trouble a few days ago when I looked in the mirror and saw a sheepdog...

France Reports 50 COVID-19 Cases Aboard Aircraft Carrier

France Reports 50 COVID-19 Cases Aboard Aircraft Carrier

Fifty crew members aboard France’s sole aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, have tested positive for the new coronavirus and...

US Military, Government Workers Still Use Zoom Despite FBI Warning

US Military, Government Workers Still Use Zoom Despite FBI Warning

U.S. military and government employees continue to use the popular videoconferencing application Zoom for official business, despite FBI warnings about privacy...

Eurogroup Strikes Half-Trillion Euro Deal to Help Members Cope with COVID-19

Eurogroup Strikes Half-Trillion Euro Deal to Help Members Cope with COVID-19

Finance ministers from the 19 eurozone countries Thursday agreed on a package worth more than half a trillion euros to...

Pass the Salt: The Minute Details that Helped Germany Build Virus Defenses

Pass the Salt: The Minute Details that Helped Germany Build Virus Defenses

One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt.In...

Euro Countries Agree on Half Trillion Euros in Support

Euro Countries Agree on Half Trillion Euros in Support

Governments from the 19 countries that use the euro overcame sharp differences to agree Thursday on measures that could provide...

Italian Envoys in Washington Muster Help for Homeland

Italian Envoys in Washington Muster Help for Homeland

Amid their anxiety and mourning for friends and family in their virus-stricken homeland, the diplomats at Italy’s embassy in Washington...

Britain Improvising As Boris Johnson Fights Virus

Britain Improvising As Boris Johnson Fights Virus

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in a stable condition Thursday after his third night in an intensive care ward...

Italian Prime Minister: It’s Too Early to Relax Coronavirus Measures

Italian Prime Minister: It’s Too Early to Relax Coronavirus Measures

Many people in Italy are calling for the government to begin easing restrictions now that the coronavirus spread is showing...

UK PM Johnson Moves out of Intensive Care

UK PM Johnson Moves out of Intensive Care

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has moved out of intensive care as he continues to recover from COVID-19, a spokesman...

Is Zoom Endangering Government Data? 

Is Zoom Endangering Government Data? 

U.S. military and government employees continue to use the popular videoconferencing application Zoom for official business, despite FBI warnings about privacy...

German Chancellor Expresses Cautious Hope over Latest Coronavirus Data

German Chancellor Expresses Cautious Hope over Latest Coronavirus Data

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the nation’s latest coronavirus statistics give some reason for hope but cautioned against...

Italian PM Resists Calls to Ease COVID Restrictions

Italian PM Resists Calls to Ease COVID Restrictions

In Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, the debate is growing on whether it is time...

Germany Flies in Seasonal Farm Workers Amid Virus Measures

Germany Flies in Seasonal Farm Workers Amid Virus Measures

Two planeloads of Eastern European farmhands arrived Thursday in Berlin and Duesseldorf amid strict precautions to protect the country from...

Whales Filmed Having Whale of a Time During Lockdown

Whales Filmed Having Whale of a Time During Lockdown

With humans away, the whales will play.In another sign that wild animals are roaming more freely while locked-down people are...

UK Braces for More Virus Deaths; Johnson Reported Stable

UK Braces for More Virus Deaths; Johnson Reported Stable

Britons braced Thursday for several more weeks in lockdown as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in a London hospital after...

European Markets Mostly Higher Thursday 

European Markets Mostly Higher Thursday 

Europe’s major stock indexes were mostly trading in positive territory Thursday, continuing the upswing enjoyed earlier in the day in...

Coronavirus Threatens Greek Tourism

Coronavirus Threatens Greek Tourism

After a brutal 10-year financial crisis, Greece was on course to a promising rebound. Businesses and exports were slowly but...

Virus Outbreak Gives Tech Darlings a Harsh Reality Check

Virus Outbreak Gives Tech Darlings a Harsh Reality Check

Just as the coronavirus outbreak has boxed in society, it’s also squeezed high-flying tech companies reliant on people’s freedom to...