Economy

  • Activists sue to replace Flint, Mich., water lines

    The contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan, has so outraged community advocates that they now pose a powerful question: Was the city neglected becau...

  • Apple TV key driver in quarterly results

    Mr Cook said: "Our team delivered Apple's biggest quarter ever , thanks to the world's most innovative products and all-time record sales of iPhone, Apple ...

  • Christie lauds New Jersey's blizzard response

    Chris Christie made a decision to return home Friday from the Republican presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire as a major snowstorm threatened to drop up...

  • Latest developments in Flint water crisis

    The governor again took responsibility for the failure to protect Flint households from lead, which leached into the water supply from aging pipes when the ci...

  • Democratic candidates defy party and consider new debate

    DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the DNC had no plans to allow the debate. Hillary Clinton is calling for Democrats to sanction another presidential de...

  • Sanders, Obama to hold Oval Office meeting

    Most Democrats give Obama high approval ratings, yet many still struggle to reconcile his soaring campaign rhetoric with what he has been able to accomplish - o...

  • Federal Reserve says economic growth slowed

    The Fed, however, only made the barest of mentions about global markets in its policy statement yesterday. The changes in its statement signaled that the ...

  • Huawei predicted to be 2016's smartphone market growth leaders

    For the fourth quarter, Samsung shipped 85.6 million units, capturing a 21.4 per cent market share and growing 14 per cent year-on-year. IDC said smartphone v...

  • Saudi Aramco expects oil prices to rise by end of 2016

    Aramco and the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, or Bahri, have amended an expired memorandum of understanding on developing a maritime complex, Aramco...

  • Apple's iPhone sales growth slows to just 0.4 per cent

    The Other category which also features the new Apple TV, Beats headphones and iPods (yes they're still on sale) brought in revenue of $4.3 billion . All anal...

  • Several Twitter VPs Have Decided To Leave The Company

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained in a post on Sunday evening that four of the company's top executives have resigned. Twitter, which has just over 300 milli...

  • IEA Said World Risks Drowning in Oil

    On Tuesday Brent crude touched its lowest price level since 2003. China's 2015 growth hit 6.9 per cent after the fourth quarter slowed to 6.8 per cent, cappin...

  • Twitter reshuffle: Top executives to leave company

    Dorsey said he wanted to address employees later this week, but issued a statement due to "inaccurate press rumors" about the departures. Chief technology of...

  • Top Execs Leave Twitter

    It should be noted that the company has had five product heads in the past six years. The head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, stated that 4 top managers leave the c...

  • Google to face grilling by UK lawmakers over tax deal
    Economy

    Google to face grilling by UK lawmakers over tax deal

    Moving forward, the taxes paid will be more reflective of the company's actual revenue and profits. And that's exactly why multinational companies like Googl...

  • Trump Says He Could 'Shoot People' And Still Have Loyal Supporters

    Trump was drawing a distinction between his supportive based of supporters and rival Ted Cruz's backers, who he described as "soft". But across Iowa on Saturd...

  • Venezuela congress nixes Maduro request for emergency powers
    Economy

    Venezuela congress nixes Maduro request for emergency powers

    The decree, issued a week ago, would give Maduro 60 days of extraordinary powers to combat a deep recession and triple-digit inflation. The opposition argues ...

  • North Korea arrests US student, cites 'hostile act'

    He was apparently in North Korea traveling with a China-based tour group, Young Pioneer Tours. North Korea's Central News Agency says that Warmbier has been...

  • China's vice president says no plan to devalue yuan

    China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange published a statement regarding capital flows. It also said the risk of cross-border capital flows was genera...

  • Now Uber Wants Laid-Off Walmart Workers to Be Its Drivers

    Walmart said February's pay raise is forecasted to increase the average wage of full-time workers to $13.38 per hour and the average wage of part-time workers t...

  • Wal-Mart to hike pay for 1.2 million workers in 2016

    Full-time workers will now be able to carry over up to 80 hours (48 hours for part-time) of paid time off from year to year. Full-time hourly employees' avera...

  • The UK Parliament had a lot to say about banning Donald Trump
    Economy

    The UK Parliament had a lot to say about banning Donald Trump

    But the members of Parliament said they had to respond and hold the debate after more than half a million people signed an online petition accusing Mr. Under ...

  • Wal-Mart To Increase Pay For 1.2 Million Employees

    They'll earn at least $10 per hour after successfully completing the company's new retail skills and training program. With the raises planned for February, ave...

  • Seoul: Time to push for nuclear talks without North Korea

    The University of Virgina student was detained while "carrying out anti-DPRK hostile activities" North Korea's state media declared on Frida, using the country'...

  • Wal-Mart to hike pay of vast majority of USA employees

    The retail giant also said it would allow workers to carry paid days off to the next year in an effort to encourage staff to remain with the company. When the r...