Economy

  • FBI Joins Flint Water Probe - Investigation Now A Criminal Matter

    Music mogul Russell Simmons is helping distribute water in Flint, Michigan, as it deals with a crisis caused by lead-tainted drinking water. Keith Creagh, dir...

  • Apple records slowest iPhone sale in quarterly result

    The iPad's decline continued as sales fell from 24.4 million to 16.1 million over the past year and revenues slumped from $9 billion to $7 billion . " Apple ...

  • Sales Decline Forecasted For Apple

    And the company is on track for more services growth this year, as it reported $5.5 billion in services revenue during the first quarter of its 2016 fiscal ye...

  • Apple is working on long range wireless charging, according to report

    What's different about Apple's approach, according to the report, is that iPhone and iPad owners would be able to charge their devices from a distance. Anal...

  • You won't believe how many Apple devices are in use right now

    In response, he said that iPhone units will decline for the quarter, but didn't feel that iPhone sales would decline over the entire year period. According to...

  • 'Kung Fu Panda 3' Tops Box Office; 'Finest Hours' Flounders

    In addition to opening at the No. 1 spot in the USA with an estimated $41 million (breaking the January opening record), Kung Fu Panda 3's day-and-date rele...

  • "Kung Fu Panda 3" beats "The Revenant" to top box office

    Prospects are bright for China, given its status as a local co-production, which means it's not part of the 34-title annual quota for USA films. " Kung Fu Pan...

  • 'Kung Fu Panda' kicks up box office rankings

    Numbers for China weren't immediately available. With solid word-of-mouth and no direct competition on the horizon, Kung Fu Panda should have a healthy run ah...

  • Asian countries urge sick travellers to report Zika symptoms

    The Zika virus, which was first reported in Brazil in 2014, is a mosquito-transmitted infection related to dengue, yellow fever and West Nile virus, accordi...

  • 'Kung Fu Panda 3' tops box office, 'Finest Hours' flounders

    With its status as a co-production, China Film Insider speculates that it could easily surpass The Monkey King: Hero is Back (US$152m) as China's highest-gr...

  • Fox's 'Kung Fu Panda 3' tops weekend box office

    Leonardo DiCaprio's " The Revenant " won the frame with only $16 million in its third weekend of wide release. Taking the No. 1 spot at the box office in comm...

  • Apple Grows Services, Wearable Revenues As iPhone Decline Fails To Materialise

    Despite the slowing growth, Apple CEO Tim Cook reassured developers with what he termed "the mother of all balance sheets " at Apple and big potential for ...

  • 'Kung Fu Panda 3' kicks up a big box office

    Kung Fu Panda 3 earned an A CinemaScore and opened in 3,955 locations. This may have been due to weak competition in theaters, the holiday surge of awards mo...

  • Tests Reveal A New Problem With Treating Flint's Lead-Tainted Water

    Fr. Mark Hodges at LifeSite News offered an interesting roundup of how leftist websites offered only disgust that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz wo...

  • Flint water coolers were also for public use

    In addition, he reiterated he didn't know some state workers in the city had received bottled water past year while officials were still telling residents that ...

  • Economy

    First Case of Zika Virus Confirmed in MA

    Zika virus was first discovered in Africa in the 1950s, but Hobman says it hasn't been well studied before now because the symptoms it caused-fever, headache an...

  • A Media Report Card On The Flint Water Crisis

    The damage to Flint's water distribution infrastructure potentially is $713 million, according to an assessment cited in the state's request for federal assis...

  • Water expert says high Flint readings no surprise

    Snyder signed into law $28 million in emergency funding for Flint today, bringing the total allocated to the city so far to almost $39 million. The Republican...

  • Facebook quarterly profit doubles as user ranks grow

    The company's fourth-quarter and full results for 2015 show yearly revenue of $17.9bn, an increase of 44 percent year on year, and an extra $2bn over the qu...

  • Apple Forecasts First Sales Dip In 13 Years

    More importantly, Apple has predicted that overall revenue will fall in the current quarter. "$100 of Apple's non-US dollar revenue in Q4 of 2014 translated t...

  • Flint Water Crisis Overrides Governor Snyder's Middle East Trip

    Creagh says officials are studying whether the city's pipes are being recoated with enough of a lining of phosphates to keep the lead from leaching. Members w...

  • Apple posts record revenue despite slowing iPhone sales

    Apple reported $18.4 billion in profit during its first fiscal quarter of 2016, but iPhone sales are predicted to drop in coming months. But sales growth ...

  • Apple says more than one billion active devices worldwide

    Apple posted $18.4 billion in earnings with revenue of $75.9 billion , which beat the $18.22 billion profit projections by analysts but fell short of the...

  • IPhone sales flatline, as decline predicted

    Apple also announced that it sold 74.8m iPhones , 16.1m iPads and 5.3m Macs over the holidays. Apple has forecasted its first revenue drop in 13 years and re...

  • Apple predicts first revenue decline in 13 years

    The company also announced that it believes revenues will drop next quarter compared to the same period in 2015, which would be the first time Apple's qua...