Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he "fully admit[s]" Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias after facing accusations that conservatives ...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is still trying to convince conservatives that his *service* treats them fairly. Speaking to CNN's Brian Stelter in an interview that aired ...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says "we're ready to question everything" about the social networking site that has been overrun by spam, abuse and misinformation.
Amid complaints that social media is discriminating against conservative voices, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted this week that his company is “left-leaning.”.
Last week squatter-musician Azealia Banks made an alarming announcement on her Instagram story: that she had been in Elon Musk's home for days while ...
On the heels of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's angst-filled interview with The New York Times, YouTube techie Marques Brownlee offered up lighter fare from a chat ...
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, responding to Uber Technologies Inc. board member Arianna Huffington urging him to change the way he works, ...
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration says conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S.. The Department of Energy announced the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S., the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that ...
1. Stocks still have room to gain: It's been a bumpy ride for stocks lately, but the bull market that began in March 2009 is about to make history: On Wednesday, ...
Long-time Seeking Alpha dividends & income contributor David Alton Clark is no stranger to high yield retirement income opportunities. Dave launched ...
The U.S. economy will be hit many times harder than the rest of the world by an escalating global trade war, according to the chief executive officer of A.P. ...
COPENHAGEN, Aug 19 — The US economy will be hit many times harder than the rest of the world by an escalating global trade war, according the chief ...
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The silhouettes of tourists are seen viewing the Grand Teton mountain range outside of the Jackson Lake Lodge during the Jackson Hole economic symposium, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in Moran, Wyoming, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. The world's two most powerful central bankers on Friday delivered back-to-back warnings against dismantling tough post-crisis financial rules that the Trump administration blames for stifling U.S. growth.
Summer break for central bankers ends this week when their leaders gather Friday and Saturday for the Federal Reserve's annual policy symposium in Jackson ...
Gold futures finished lower last week after spiking to its lowest level since the week-ending December 23, 2016. The catalyst behind the selling pressure was a ...
Investing.com - This week investors will get the chance on Wednesday to parse through the minutes of the Federal Reserve's August meeting, when it left ...
Investing.com - Gold prices look likely to remain under pressure this week as a combination of a stronger dollar and higher Treasury yields make the precious ...
Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are increasingly fighting for eyes — upping *content* spends and rounding out studios. But industry leaders ...
Social Security is vital social program that most elderly Americans simply couldn't live without. According to data from the horse's mouth (the Social Security ...
Social Security, despite all its issues -- and the real concerns about its future, barring action by Congress -- has proven to be a hugely important program for ...
Indeed, “80 percent of millennial workers say they're worried Social Security won't be there for them,” according to a recent study by the Transamerica Center for ...
Today's column explains who can still file restricted applications for spousal benefits only, options when a restricted application should have been filed in the ...
Rain, snow, sleet, even barking dogs are fine, but a Kansas postal worker had to draw the line when he found an eight-foot-long red tail boa constrictor draped ...
KANSAS -- A U.S Postal *Service* worker in Kansas had an issue delivering mail to one house. A 20-pound snake had decided the mailbox was it's new home.
Snow, rain, heat and gloom won't stop the United States Postal *Service* from delivering mail, but a red-tailed boa constrictor will. A postal worker recently found ...
Standing on Springfield's Main Street, the nearly $1 billion resort casino meant to spark a downtown renaissance doesn't immediately scream Las Vegas glitz.
OK, let's get this out right from the top because it seems this is what people around here care about most: Parking will be free at the new MGM Springfield and ...
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Standing on Springfield's Main Street, the nearly $1 billion resort casino meant to spark a downtown renaissance doesn't immediately ...
Standing on Springfield's Main Street, the nearly $1 billion resort casino meant to spark a downtown renaissance doesn't immediately scream Las Vegas glitz.
MGM Springfield's debut is set for Friday, a long-awaited and, for some, much-dreaded event that will mark the start of a new era for southeastern Connecticut's ...
Though college graduates have grappled with educational debt for years, the student loan crisis is getting out of hand. The average Class of 2017 graduate ...
WASHINGTON — My husband and I have been sneaking high fives because, come this fall, all three of our children will be in college. And, here's the sweetest ...
College students who rack up piles of debt face certain repercussions later in life. Studies have shown that student loans can seriously hinder retirement savings ...
According to a report presented Sunday at the 256th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society contact lenses are contributing to ...
Up to 20 percent of wearers aren't tossing their old lenses into waste containers, opting instead for disposal in sinks and toilets. An ASU study found that after ...
I hadn't given much thought to throwing away my contacts in the toilet. I don't do it often, just when the bathroom trash can is full. It doesn't seem especially ...
Flushing contact lenses down the sink or toilet is adding to plastic pollution in oceans and rivers - and could even lead to them being served up in our food, new ...
The end of Greece's marathon bailout would mark the closure of the eurozone crisis but events in Italy are fueling fears that all is not well with the euro after all.
For weeks, Tri-County Electric customers worried they might not have the 700 votes necessary to throw out the co-op's embattled board of directors at an ...
More than 1000 customers showed up Saturday morning for a vote on whether to fire Tri-County Electric Cooperative's board. Records showed the board ...
President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that he's asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to look at moving quarterly reporting for publicly-traded ...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing President Donald Trump's proposal to introduce a semi-annual model of corporate earnings ...
President Trump today proposed a major change to corporate transparency, in a tweet calling for the Securities and Exchange Commission to change quarterly ...
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Have you heard the one about the airline calling the ...
Columbus is looking at a "thoughtful" approach to regulating the motorized scooters from Bird and Lime — the two companies that recently placed scooters ...
Our founder John Murden shared this screenshot with us yesterday. Looks like a couple of you brought some scooters to our neighborhood! If you haven't yet ...
The dysfunctional subway system notwithstanding, there's no shortage of ways to get around New York City these days — buses, bikes, taxis, mopeds, Uber, Lyft ...
Our letter writers have always been protective of their sidewalks. Now, with Bird and Lime scooters popping up, pedestrians' defense of their small space has ...
From luck to convenience, there's a number of possible reasons why August 18 is set to be the busiest wedding date of 2018, according to data gathered from ...
Today is the most popular wedding day of the year, according to data released by the Knot. Almost 30,000 couples are set to marry, with associated guests ...
According to wedding website The Knot, Aug. 18, 2018 is the most popular wedding date of the year. It's a palindrome, which means the number combination is ...
BI PRIME: The market is facing a growing number of alarming comparisons between the dot-com era and current conditions. The most recent observation relates ...
Many have argued that Walmart's strategy moves have been delayed and defensive relative to the efforts of Amazon. But Thursday's earnings report from ...
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) disappointed investors the last couple of quarters with underwhelming e-commerce sales -- growth came in at just 23% in the fourth ...
The Louisiana State Bond Commission on Thursday voted to block two giant banks — Citigroup and Bank of America — from taking part in a $600 million ...
Two of the biggest banks in the nation, Citigroup and Bank of America, will not be allowed to participate in a new highway project in the state of Louisiana ...
In another illustration of how the national debate over guns is playing out in the business world, Louisiana is banning two of the nation's biggest banks from ...
Louisiana has “prohibited” Citigroup and Bank of America from participating in an upcoming bond sale over their recent restrictions against doing business with ...
Conservative anger over corporate firearms policies knocked a pair of banking heavyweights out of the running to underwrite some of Louisiana's highway ...
Winning Powerball Numbers For Aug. 18, 2018 - Annapolis, MD - The Powerball jackpot for Saturday, Aug. 18, sits at $50 million. Check here for the winning ...
The mystery second winner from Thursday's $100million Powerball draw has been named as a hardworking father from Sydney's south who carried his ticket in ...
A hardworking father from Riverwood in Sydney's south is ecstatic after discovering the Powerball ticket he had been carrying in his wallet for the past two days ...
Home prices are rising again in New Orleans after taking a dip last year, giving a boost to property owners but also likely intensifying the city's shortage of ...
Home prices across the New Orleans area were up in the first half of 2018, including in Orleans Parish, which had seen a recent slip in prices. In this 2012 file ...
The sales and marketing director of Backpage.com pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to facilitate prostitution, acknowledging that he participated in a scheme to ...
The sales and marketing director of Backpage.com pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to facilitate prostitution, acknowledging that he participated in a scheme to ...
Government-seized website Backpage.com's sales director Dan Hyer pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for giving free advertising to sex workers in order to ...
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American Airlines Has a 'Cruel' and 'Disastrous' New Policy. (Source: American Airlines Flight Attendants) | Inc.com
It happens over and over, he says. Uber emails him about a ticket he received from SFO for a violation, such as not displaying the Uber logo. The $100 fine, a big ...
A scrappy New York taxi drivers union is taking on Uber's exploitative business model — and winning. Taxi driver Saibou Sidibe holds up a protest sign outside ...
A few years ago, I heard Travis Kalanick, the founder and former chief executive of ride-sharing company Uber, speak to a group of Boston business leaders.
A digital marketing company in Minneapolis has adopted a new policy that it calls "fur-ternity" leave, allowing employees with new pets to work from home ...
A digital marketing company in Minneapolis has adopted a new policy that it calls “fur-ternity” leave, allowing employees with new pets to work from home.
A digital marketing company in Minneapolis has adopted a new policy that it calls "fur-ternity" leave, allowing employees with new pets to work from home.
“I never thought I would work as a ground *service* agent,” Richard Russell wrote on his blog. “It seemed like such miserable work and I never could imagine why ...
BI PRIME: Helios and Matheson, the parent company of MoviePass, increased its share count by more than 9400% in just the last few weeks. But it could dilute ...
Stanley Black & Decker Inc. this week introduced 1,200 redesigned tools from the Craftsman brand it bought last year from Sears, upping its game with ...
There has been rumors of a possible Amazon DVR option for their Fire TVs. According to sources who spoke with Bloomberg, Amazon is hard at work on a DVR ...
Yext announced a partnership with Amazon Alexa where businesses will be able to feed their digital information directly into Alexa via the Yext Knowledge ...
Amazon is working on a device that can record live TV and stream it on demand, encroaching on tech turf occupied by TiVo, Bloomberg News reported Friday.
The victim toll of McDonald's salad has shot up once again.Another 81 people have developed explosive diarrhea from the dishes, bringing the total number of ...
Another 81 customers have developed explosive diarrhea, bringing the total number to 476 in 15 states. At least 21 were hospitalized. They range in age from ...
When Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's second master plan, the $35000 Model 3 represented the price floor. It wasn't set in stone, but you couldn't realistically exp...
We are still learning about Tesla's upcoming new 'Track Mode' to be released in the Model 3 Performance as the automaker is still developing it. CEO Elon Musk ...
Times are tough over at Tesla: the company lost $8 billion in shareholder value. Especially so for their CEO and boyfriend-of-Grimes, Elon Musk, who's been ...
While China accounted for 57% of U.S. soybean exports in 2017, that total is down to 34% through the first half of 2018. In the month of June, that total fell to 8% ...
The Boeing 747 jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered. Boeing believes the jumbo's future is as a cargo plane. Airlines have been replacing the ...
The Boeing 747 jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered. Boeing believes the jumbo's future is as a cargo plane. Airlines have been replacing the ...
For years Edward Lampert has called the shots at Sears as its chief executive, largest shareholder and biggest lender. But his latest play to keep the struggling ...
Hedge fund manager and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:SHLD) CEO Eddie Lampert has put a lot of effort into keeping the storied retail giant alive over the past few ...
If you snuggled into your couch and turned on Netflix over the past few days, there's a chance you might've experienced a new phenomenon with the streaming ...
Netflix has confirmed that the streaming *service* will begin testing a new ad experience for users, where ads for other shows may play while the credits roll while ...
The one thing that everyone loves about Netflix may soon be coming to an end. A user of the streaming *service* says that he was forced to watch an ad.
Netflix just can't seem to keep themselves out of the headlines with advertisements for other shows being the next big controversy. Here's a complete breakdown ...
Patrons rallied around a restaurant owner in Massachusetts after he received a one-star Yelp review that focused on a small LGBT pride flag hanging in his ...
The Tesla Model 3 has been plagued with well-publicized production issues over the last few months. However it seems the situation is finally improving. Back in ...
UBS analysts disassembled a Tesla Model 3 to compare it with other electric vehicles. 'Tesla delivered the best powertrain at the lowest cost,' the invest...
On Friday, Jack White performed a surprise free concert for workers at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California, which was streamed to employees globally!
Elon Musk believes it could be possible to scale production at Tesla and lower their design and technology costs enough to be able to offer a truly mass-market ...
One of automotive history's near-mythical lost cars has been found, but mystery still surrounds “Little Red,” an experimental Ford Mustang that's the father of ...
Seek and ye shall find. Eventually. A legendary Ford Mustang that many thought was destroyed 50 years ago has been discovered rotting away in a Texas field.
An experimental Ford Shelby GT500 Prototype nicknamed “Little Red” was discovered in a North Texas field this past spring after spending at least two decades ...
Victoria's Secret parent company is expected to report yet another quarterly decline in sales next week as the sexy lingerie brand continues to lose market share.
(Bloomberg) -- Some Bayer AG investors were surprised to learn about the thousands of farmers lining up before U.S. courts to argue that Roundup -- the ...
Some Bayer AG investors were surprised to learn about the thousands of farmers lining up before US courts to argue that Roundup — the blockbuster weedkiller ...
Bayer said on Friday that a German media report this week that U.S. farmers were suing its Monsanto unit over crop damage caused by weedkiller dicamba ...
While I rarely advise buying a certain stock or making a money move just because an expert did, that doesn't mean there's nothing you can learn from the best ...
Technology giants Microsoft and Cisco Systems are playing catch up with a smaller technology company -- Adobe Systems. On Wall Street that is. Microsoft's ...
Family Dollar was bought by Dollar Tree in 2015, and so far the merger has been problematic for the parent company. We visited one of its stores to find out what ...
A former school groundskeeper dying of cancer who won a landmark judgment against agriculture giant Monsanto says the lawsuit was never about the money.
Last week, a California state court handed down a $289-million verdict against Monsanto, the St. Louis-based agribusiness titan. The massive jury award.
Despite all the talk about the nearly decade-long bull market and North America's transformation into an energy powerhouse, energy stocks haven't performed ...
Consumer advocacy group Consumer Reports is warning parents to limit some types of baby food after finding "worrisome" levels of toxic chemicals, such as ...
A consumer advocacy group is advising parents to limit the amount of rice cereal their children eat, with an analysis finding troublesome amounts of potentially ...
WASHINGTON: Global credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) cut Turkey's debt grade for the second time in four months, moving it further into junk ...
Both Moody's and Standard & Poor's sent Turkey's sovereign debt rating even lower into "junk" territory, citing extreme volatility and prolonged economic ...
Global ratings agency S&P on Friday cut Turkey's debt grade for the second time in four months. The agency downgraded the rating a notch to 'B+' and pointed ...
Ankara/San Francisco/New York: Turkey's credit rating was cut further into junk on Friday by S&P Global Ratings and Moody's Investors *Service*, which said the ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's said on Friday it had cut Turkey's sovereign credit rating deeper into “junk” territory, citing extreme lira volatility and ...
SAN JOSE — My sister thinks I'm crazy. So does my tax guy. They might be right, but it's way too late now. I've already drained my retirement fund, bought a big ...
By 2020, China is aiming for half of the industrial robots sold in the country to be made by Chinese companies, up from 27 percent currently—with a target of 70 percent by 2025
Robots that can diagnose diseases, play badminton and wow audiences with their musical skills are among the machines China hopes could revolutionise its ...
Robots that can diagnose diseases, play badminton and wow audiences with their musical skills are among the machines China hopes could revolutionise its ...
Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25 percent of the time, according to a study published in March by the University of Southern ...
Last week, despite the Turkey hype, did not yield any market-moving news. Vacations are in full swing. Next week's schedule is light. The Fed will be in focus f.
If you are like me, you can't wait to get a closer look at Tesla's next-generation Roadster, but as we learned last week, it appears not to be a priority for Tesla as ...
The next-generation Tesla Roadster is coming to Jay Leno's Garage for this Thursday's upcoming episode. A preview of the all-electric supercar's segment was ...
A Georgian teen solved six Rubik's cubes underwater in a single breath, setting a new Guinness World Record. Vako Marchilashvili was submerged in a glass ...
TBILISI, Georgia (Reuters): An 18-year-old student from Georgia solved six Rubik's Cubes underwater in one breath on Friday (Aug 17), in a bid to set a new ...
An 18-year-old Georgian student on Friday attempted to break the Guinness World Record for solving six Rubik's Cubes underwater in one breath, Reuters ...
In a brilliant feat, an 18 year-old Georgian student, Vako Marchilashvili, set a world record by solving six Rubik's Cubes underwater in one breath. Officials with ...
Despite having incredibly strong fundamentals, Alibaba has dropped by about 20% in the last 2 months. The company just grew revenues by a staggering 58%, ...
BANGKOK — Alibaba group has demonstrated how e-commerce and similar innovative technologies can be leveraged to boost efficiency in rural development ...
Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess was told about the existence of cheating software in cars two months before regulators blew the whistle on a ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen (DE:VOWG_p) Chief Executive Herbert Diess was told about the existence of cheating software in cars two months before ...
German magazine Der Spiegel's investigation raises questions about whether VW informed investors in a timely manner about the scope of a scandal which it ...
