Oil prices soared on Friday after oil producers agreed to modest crude output increases to compensate for losses in production at a time of rising global demand.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed on Friday to rein in production cuts, essentially lifting output to help make up for an expected ...

Lamenting the days of oil trading at nearly $150 a barrel in 2008, oil exporters managed to get their act together back in 2016 to restrict supply and raise oil ...

Brian Krzanich's replacement at Intel will be faced with some unfinished business as it pertains to cybersecurity. Krzanich, who was forced out on Thursday after ...

Brian Krzanich's resignation this week leaves Intel's board with a tough choice: Name the next CEO from a small pool of internal candidates, or go outside for the ...

Intel INTC CEO Brian Krzanich was forced to resign after internal and external auditors discovered that he had a past consensual relationship with a direct ...

Google founders and top Silicon Valley executives would be out of work if Intel's high standards of employee conduct were applied.

Now in its 12th year, the American-Made Index is an analysis of cars built in the U.S. to find out which ones have the greatest impact on the U.S. economy.

Years of auto shareholders change — with parts manufacturing and vehicle assembly scattered around the world — leave it nearly impossible to think of cars...

Where cars are built has taken on a new importance in the Trump era and the administration will probably be surprised to learn that four vehicles from Honda ...

Cars.com, the digital automotive marketplace, is out with a list ranking the most American-made cars on the market. And three vehicles made in Alabama are in ...

SolarCity employees install solar panels on the roof of a home in Kendall Park, New Jersey, on July 28, 2015. Tesla, which acquired SolarCity in late 2016, ...

Electric car maker Tesla's move last week to cut 9 percent of its workforce will sharply downsize the residential solar business it bought two years ago in a ...

Tesla will close “about a dozen” solar installation facilities around the country as part of its recent layoffs, according to Reuters. Installation centers in California, ...

Elon Musk and Tesla in the news again -- let's first talk about its solar business. The Reuters report coming on the heels of Tesla's announcement last week to ...

Netflix confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday that it has fired its chief communication officer, Jonathan Friedland, after he repeatedly used the “n-word” in front of ...

Netflix's long-time communications chief and former journalist used the ultimate derogatory term for African-Americans in a meeting, causing almost immediate ...

Netflix's Chief Communications Officer Jonathan Friedland is leaving the company after seven years, he said on Twitter Friday.

Jonathan Friedland, the top communications spokesperson at Netflix, is leaving the company after making what he called "insensitive" remarks during a ...

In an open letter published by Gizmodo, Amazon staff have called on CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement and ...

Workers at Amazon have demanded that their employer stop the sale of facial recognition software and other services to the US government. In a letter ...

In a letter to their company's CEO, the employees asked Amazon to stop doing business with companies that do work for ICE.

NEW YORK >> AT&T is launching a new streaming *service* incorporating television networks from the Time Warner company it just bought. The WatchTV *service* ...

It's been quite a week for AT&T. One of the largest providers of wireless, internet, and cable TV in America, it closed an $85.4 billion deal last Thursday to acquire ...

Modeling the new AT&T ultra-skinny bundle, a Jefferies analyst estimates its *content* costs run around $11 per subscriber per month, with profit margins coming ...

Unlike many conservatives, I absolutely loathe the fact that much online commerce is in effect tax-free. There is no legitimate reason that Walmart and Target, but ...

The Supreme Court finally decides that Internet retailers can be treated just like brick-and-mortar shops.

For those who believe in tax fairness and simplification, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday in South Dakota v. Wayfair on online sales taxes is a good ...

MUD is monitoring metro water supplies after a train derailment in northwest Iowa resulting in a release of crude oil.

DOON, Iowa -- Residences from several farms were evacuated early Friday morning after a train carrying oil derailed, spilling some of its contents into ...

A freight train derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil from at least one of 31 tankers into flooded fields flanking the tracks, officials said.

The new policy doesn't define what that means, though.

ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines says it's no longer allowing passengers to fly with "pit bull type" dogs as *service* or support animals, a policy that's being met ...

Delta Airlines announced Wednesday it's updating its *service* and support animal policy yet again to further enhance restrictions after two emplyees were bit by a ...

General Electric will leave the Dow Jones Industrial Average after 122 years and will be replaced by Walgreens. A move that has left former GE executive Bob ...

The stock market was sharply mixed early Friday, as the Dow Jones industrial average looked to snap a losing streak. Top stocks Red Hat and Splunk triggered ...

General Electric's shares have dipped below $13 again lately. GE is going to be dropped from the Dow Jones stock index next week, and will be replaced with ...

By Ben Blanchard and David Stanway BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. protectionism is self-defeating and a "symptom of paranoid delusions" that must not ...

U.S. protectionism is self-defeating and a "symptom of paranoid delusions" that must not distract China from its path to modernization, Chinese state media said ...

The billionaire chief of Foxconn Technology Group, the main iPhone assembler for Apple and the builder of Echo and other devices for Amazon, argues that ...

When Terry Gou meets shareholders at Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s annual general meeting today he will likely talk about U.S. expansion, booming China, ...

Tesla sued a former employee Wednesday, accusing the man of hacking the automaker's computer systems and stealing company secrets, shedding light on ...

After Elon Musk emailed Tesla staff regarding “quite extensive and damaging sabotage,” the company has now launched a lawsuit against an ex-employee over ...

Tesla accuses former employee of hacking, stealing data, and leaking false information to the media.

TESLA HAS made good on its promise to rat out an alleged saboteur at the company, although he claims that he wasn't a spy, but rather a whistleblower.

A Black man is considering legal action after a manager denied him *service* at a grocery store and called the police to his home with an order to ban him from the ...

An African-American man from Saco said he is upset and shaken – and may pursue legal action – because a manager at the Shaw's in Saco refused to sell him ...

A grocery chain in Maine is now apologizing after refusing *service* and banning a black man from their supermarket. Rory Ferreira, 26, questioned Shaw's ...

India has dropped large motorcycles such as Harley-Davidson bikes from a list of US products it will hit in retaliation for US steel and aluminum tariffs.

The EU is fighting back with $3.2 billion worth of tariffs.

The escalating trade war Donald Trump is waging against American allies is going to Hurt Harley Davidson and the state of Wisconsin.

HARLEY-DAVIDSON isn't exactly renowned for balancing on the razor edge of technological advancement but the firm's latest new model is the simplest, ...

It's official! The deal to bring a new Amazon fulfillment center to Bessemer is finalized.The center should open in July of 2019 and bring at least 1500 new jobs to ...

It's official: Amazon.com Inc. is coming to metro Birmingham. The company on Friday said it has finalized its plan to open an 855,000-square-foot fulfillment ...

In the initial stages of its plans to build a fulfillment center, Amazon believed Bessemer was nonviable. Then the company made a visit.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Amazon reportedly will build a distribution center near Birmingham that will eventually employ about 3000 people. News outlets ...

A federal judge says the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a target of conservatives. It's currently part of the larger war against Trump as some disgruntled staffers are ...

The structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, according to federal district Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New ...

At first glance, it looked like a painful defeat. Mere weeks after they had blanketed Miami streets, electric scooters disappeared overnight, their companies sent ...

Bird electric scooters will have competition in Indianapolis when Lime starts operating on Saturday.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-- A new set of electric scooters will soon hit the streets of downtown Indianapolis. Earlier this week, Department of Business and ...

Red Hat stock fell after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of its 2019 fiscal year but lower-than-expected guidance on ...

Red Hat on Thursday reported fiscal first-quarter revenue and profit that topped estimates, but its current-quarter guidance missed expectations, sending shares ...

Momentum stocks rarely offer perfect entry points. On the way down, stocks like Red Hat (RHT) look headed into an abyss. Today's dip is an opportunity to profit ...

Jim Cramer hears from Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst after the software company's stock saw its worst trading day since 2006.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Asian stocks fell Friday following Wall Street losses overnight as investors were still wary over trade disputes between China and ...

Major Asian markets closed mixed on Friday, following losses seen on Wall Street and amid investor concerns about the trade dispute between the U.S. and ...

Asian stocks closed mixed as global markets calmed after an elevation in trade tensions between the U.S. and China triggered a sell-off earlier in the week.

Three local companies have gotten high marks in recent years on Wellness Natural Pet Foods' lists of the country's most pet-friendly employers.

The sacrifices we make for the ones we love! While plenty of pooch parents are celebrating Take Your Dog to Work Day on June 22, there are those left out of ...

A new study reveals that natural gas plants leak more methane into the atmosphere than the government had previously thought.

CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences, is a collaboration between NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Its latest ...

Environmental groups still disagree on what the coming natural gas boom in the U.S. means for the climate.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A company that builds nuclear reactors has big plans in Huntsville. This week, city leaders welcomed BWX Technologies to the Tennessee ...

Japan's financial regulator has targeted six licensed cryptocurrency exchanges to issue business improvement orders, ramping up its scrutiny of the sector.

Bitcoin prices fall after a regulatory agency in Japan ordered several cryptocurrency exchanges to review their business practices.

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency announced on Friday it had issued business improvement orders to six virtual currency exchanges,

BitFlyer, the country's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, has suspended the registration of new accounts to overhaul its verification system.

The Supreme Court issued a disappointing opinion [PDF] today holding that a company could recover patent damages for lost profits overseas. The court's ...

June 22, 2018. By Andrew Chung. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that companies can recover profits lost because of the ...

Creator, a Silicon Valley startup, is finally opening its long-awaited burger joint in San Francisco. The company uses a robot at the center of the restaurant to ...

San Francisco start-up Creator is opening their restaurant June 27. Their robot can make *fresh* burgers from start to finish in five minutes.

This gorgeous new burger robot can make 120 burgers an hour. But will it really be able to replace you?

If you find yourself in San Francisco and craving a hamburger, you might want to keep an eye out for Creator on Folsom Street. The new joint, which is set to ...

(Reuters) - Wall Street rose on Friday boosted by higher oil prices after the OPEC agreed to a modest increase in output, but a drop in technology stocks capped ...

(Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday with the Dow ending its 8-day losing streak as bank stocks gained after passing the Federal Reserve's annual ...

Stock futures shed their early losses and climbed in premarket trade Friday. Markets braced for a crucial OPEC meeting, as the Dow sought to avoid its longest ...

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday rejected a $639 million proposed San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas natural gas ...

The California Public Utilities Commission rejected a $639 million proposed San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas natural gas pipeline that ...

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday rejected a $639 million proposed San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas natural gas ...

(KGTV) - A massive natural gas pipeline project that would have run through San Diego's North County was rejected Thursday by the California Public Utilities ...