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”

US Says It Won’t Abandon Fight Against IS in Syria

US Says It Won’t Abandon Fight Against IS in Syria

The United States is promising not to abandon the fight to eradicate the Islamic State terror group, while pushing its...

Facebook Removes Millions of Posts and Billions of Fake Accounts

Facebook Removes Millions of Posts and Billions of Fake Accounts

Facebook released its Community Standards Enforcement Report on Wednesday, detailing its work in regulating its main app and Instagram from...

China Tests Mars Lander in Push for International Cooperation

China Tests Mars Lander in Push for International Cooperation

China invited observers to a successful test Thursday of its Mars lander as the country pushes for inclusion in more...

Facebook Signs Lease for Office Space in Hudson Yards

Facebook Signs Lease for Office Space in Hudson Yards

Facebook Inc signed a lease for over 1.5 million square feet of office space across 30 floors and three buildings...

GOP Senators Confronted Erdogan Over Video, Participants Say

GOP Senators Confronted Erdogan Over Video, Participants Say

A band of GOP senators rebuffed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s effort to depict anti-Islamic State Kurd forces as terrorists...

Erdogan Says Turkey Won’t Dispose of Russian S-400s

Erdogan Says Turkey Won’t Dispose of Russian S-400s

Turkey is willing to purchase U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems but will not agree to disposing of the Russian S-400...

Estonian Minister: Russian Security Services Used Estonia to Fund Activities Abroad

Estonian Minister: Russian Security Services Used Estonia to Fund Activities Abroad

Russia’s security services moved money through Estonia to finance operations overseas, the Baltic country’s finance minister, who is leading a...

Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1 Billion, Stepping Back into Wearables

Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1 Billion, Stepping Back into Wearables

Fitbit is being acquired by Google’s parent company for about $2.1 billion, a deal that enables the internet company to...

Sources: US Opens National Security Probe of  TikTok Owner’s Acquisition

Sources: US Opens National Security Probe of  TikTok Owner’s Acquisition

The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co.’s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly,...

UN Confirms Madrid as New Location for Climate Summit 

UN Confirms Madrid as New Location for Climate Summit 

The United Nations global climate meeting next month will take place in Madrid rather than Chile, which had to bow...

Spain: 5 Guilty of Sex Abuse Not Rape as Girl Was Unconscious

Spain: 5 Guilty of Sex Abuse Not Rape as Girl Was Unconscious

Spaniards are voicing outrage after five men were acquitted of rape on the grounds that their 14-year-old victim had been...

Dubai Displays Tech Reputation With Global Robotics Contest

Dubai Displays Tech Reputation With Global Robotics Contest

Seeking to bolster its image as a forward-looking metropolis, Dubai hosted the largest-ever international robotics contest this week, challenging young...

Murder Trial of 3 Teenage Sisters Changing Russian Minds on Domestic Violence

Murder Trial of 3 Teenage Sisters Changing Russian Minds on Domestic Violence

Russian lawyer Mari Davtyan has built a reputation as a go-to advocate for women abused by spouses, boyfriends and fathers....

No Time Left to Extend Key US-Russia Arms Treaty: Diplomat

No Time Left to Extend Key US-Russia Arms Treaty: Diplomat

A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow and Washington are running out of time to extend the last remaining nuclear arms...

The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 Years On

The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 Years On

November marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Wall’s demise brought an end to a divided...

Britain’s Black Economy Draws Vietnamese Migrants

Britain’s Black Economy Draws Vietnamese Migrants

The deaths of 39 migrants, many believed to be of Vietnamese origin, in the back of a refrigerated truck near...

Trump Accused of Attempting to Interfere in British Election

Trump Accused of Attempting to Interfere in British Election

Accusations of attempted interference in a foreign election are being leveled at U.S. President Donald Trump after he phoned into...

Fiat Chrysler, PSA Peugeot Boards Approve Merger

Fiat Chrysler, PSA Peugeot Boards Approve Merger

The boards of Fiat Chrysler and PSA Peugeot announced Thursday fast-moving plans to merge the two companies creating the world’s...

Putin was ‘Conscientious and Disciplined’ Spy: KGB Documents

Putin was ‘Conscientious and Disciplined’ Spy: KGB Documents

Declassified KGB documents on display in Russia describe future President Vladimir Putin as a “conscientious and disciplined” spy at the...

Facebook Moves to Curb Russian Interference in African Politics

Facebook Moves to Curb Russian Interference in African Politics

This week’s takedown of Facebook and Instagram accounts that were used to interfere with African political affairs has provided new...

Security Firm Says Chinese Hackers Intercepted Text Messages

Security Firm Says Chinese Hackers Intercepted Text Messages

Chinese hackers with a history of state-sponsored espionage have intercepted the text messages of thousands of foreigners in a targeted...

Turkey Says Its Forces Captured 18 Syrian Soldiers in Syria

Turkey Says Its Forces Captured 18 Syrian Soldiers in Syria

 Turkey’s defense minister said Thursday its forces captured 18 Syrian government soldiers in northeastern Syria, including two who are wounded....