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A photo taken at a Best Buy in Houston after Hurricane Harvey shows 12-packs of Smart Water listed for $29.98 and 24-packs of Dasani...
As Uber takes steps to recover from a string of allegations that called its corporate ethics into question, competing ride-share service Lyft is anxious...
Tuesday, Cummins, an Indiana-based manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engines for commercial trucks, unveiled a fully-operational, one-hundred-percent electric truck cab, forbes.com reports. The...
21st Century Fox announced Tuesday that it will pull Fox News from UK airwaves, The Guardian reports. The network’s final broadcast across the pond...
Best Buy’s quarter two earnings report, released Tuesday, shattered analyst expectations, Bloomberg reports. But, the company’s stock has plummeted on CEO Hubert Joly’s warning that...
Harley-Davidson, Inc. is set to revamp its Softail lineup with a slew of new 2018 models, Charles Fleming of The LA Times reports. The...
Since June 2, Starbucks stock has fallen more than 16 percent. Shares dipped just over nine percent (to $54.00/share) in 24 hours after the...
Apple announced plans Thursday to build a $1.3 billion data storage center in Waukee, IA, a suburb of Des Moines. Construction will begin early...
Amazon announced in a press release Thursday that it will take control of Whole Foods beginning Monday, The New York Times reports. When Whole...
Chinese authorities have extradited Ji Wenhong, founder of online clothing retailer xiu.com, from Indonesia to face smuggling charges, the AP reports via New York...
McDonald’s announced yesterday, Aug. 23, that it would begin the process of removing human antibiotics in their chickens worldwide starting in 2018. Currently, McDonald’s...
Icelandic budget airline WOW Air announced Wednesday that it will expand its service to four Midwestern US cities—St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Detroit—beginning in...
Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) signed off on Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, The Washington Post reports. The $13.7 billion deal, which Amazon...
The Village Voice, the liberal, independent newspaper that has been a fixture in New York culture since the mid-20th century, announced Tuesday that it...
The US Air Force announced Monday that it has awarded two defense companies—Boeing and Northrop Grumman—each a $359 million contract to design new, land-based,...
A host of law firms have proposed class actions against Blue Apron accusing the company of misleading its shareholders, TechCrunch reports. Bragar Eagel &...
On Monday, many Americans saw a total solar eclipse for the first time in their lives. The last time United States denizens had a...
Google is developing tools to help online news companies get people to give them money, as the Verge reports. It remains unclear how much of that...
In 2013, beauty store chain Ulta welcomed a new CEO in Mary Dillon and ever since its star has been on the rise, Digiday notes....
The company behind the photo filter app Prisma is shifting its focus away from the app and towards selling its technology to other companies,...
As reported by TechCrunch, changes are coming to Google’s mobile search. Now: video previews Now, whenever your Google search query returns video results, Google...
Uber capitulated to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) early this week, agreeing to submit to two decades worth of audits. The...
Pharmaceutical giant Mylan will pay $465 million to settle charges that the company had been overcharging Medicaid for EpiPens for a decade, The LA...
Thursday, by a vote of 59-30, Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled State Assembly approved legislation that would provide $3 billion worth of incentives—mostly cash—to technology manufacturer Foxconn...
As reported by Bloomberg, the FDA is forcing food companies to stop including trans fats, or partially-hydrogenated oils, in food products this month. Three...
Right wing protesters have a march on Google due to what the group’s website calls “credible Alt Left terrorist threats,” CNET reports. The demonstration,...
The euro has been weakened against the dollar since the release of the minutes of the European Central Bank’s last meeting. But the dollar is having...
As New York commuters suffer through the complications, repairs and shutdowns at Penn Station this summer, the Regional Planning Association (RPA), a think tank...
In this age of instant gratification, eCommerce retailers like Amazon face a dilemma. A consumer can make a purchase in seconds with a few...
Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler announced plans Wednesday to join an autonomous car development consortium with Germany’s BMW and American tech giant Intel, MarketWatch reports....
Google is once again making headlines this week due to a familiar issue in Silicon Valley—the gender pay gap. At least 70 current and...
Could I interest you in a package of fully-cooked beef stew that sat unrefrigerated on a shelf for a year before being dropped on your doorstep? Or...
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency system that uses mathematical formulas (“cryptography”) in lieu of traditional, centralized financial institutions to protect users’ currency and...
Streaming video service Netflix has $15.7 billion worth of “streaming content obligations,” CNN reports. It plans to pay $6 billion toward those obligations this year....
As of 2:18 Eastern Monday, a single bitcoin is worth $4,282—an all time high for the cryptocurrency, invented in 2008. The bitcoin-USD exchange has soared...
Marcel Goldman is suing The Cheesecake Factory over its billing practices, Buzzfeed reports. When diners request a split bill at the restaurant chain, the “suggested...
China has proven itself able to use quantum cryptography to produce what are essentially unhackable transmissions. A Chinese group of researchers called the Quantum Experiments at Space...
Struggling music service SoundCloud just completed a $169.5 million emergency Series F funding round, TechCrunch reports. New York investment bank Raine Group and Singapore’s...
We now live in a time in which you can use DNA to hack computer systems. The discovery was made by a group of researchers at...
Venture capital firm Benchmark, a prominent Uber investor, is suing the ride-hailing company’s founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick—who, under pressure from Benchmark and...
In an effort to break into the video entertainment market, Facebook is introducing a new video platform called Watch. The platform will be made...
In September 2012, South Dakota meat processor Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) sued ABC for defamation over the news agency’s reports concerning a meat additive called...
Tesla will meet with the California and Nevada Departments of Motor Vehicles to talk about testing a semi-truck in those states, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. ...
ASOS, a British online fashion and beauty store, released a statement announcing plans to build a new warehouse in the United States on Tuesday,...
Over the past few years, Netflix has invested heavily in original movies and TV shows which are available exclusively on Netflix. This content works to attract new customers who...
Megan Schultz of California sued CVS Health Corporation, the US’s largest pharmacy chain, Monday, accusing the company of charging excessive copayments for certain medicines,...
The 35 mega-mansions on Presidio Terrace in San Francisco each cost many millions of dollars. They have been homes to some of Washington’s political...
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has indicated intentions to make inroads into the US ride-hailing market with a multi-billion dollar investment in Uber or Lyft,...
The technology needed for planes to fly 100 percent autonomously, with no input from a human pilot, could be viable as early as 2025,...
According to an Associated Press report published by Business Insider, cannabis company American Green, Inc. announced Thursday that it is in the process of...
Marcus Hutchins, the cybersecurity researcher who disabled the WannaCry ransomware, was arrested in Las Vegas Wednesday, August 2 following a July 12 indictment on...
A manifesto titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” written by a software engineer at Google has garnered attention not only within the company but also throughout the...
Tesla, Inc. has a tough year ahead as it attempts to exponentially increase production even as its battery chief has just announced his departure....
Toyota announced Thursday that it will join forces with Mazda to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in the U.S., The New York Times...
In its quarterly earnings call Thursday, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. dropped its projections of annual profit for the second time this year. Earnings per...
Amazon is amending its returns policy to make it easier for customers to return items they purchased from third party sellers, Ari Levy of...
The Dow Jones rose 0.45% Wednesday, closing at 22,014.51, crossing 22,000 for the first time in history, Reuters reports. It dropped slightly in after hours...
Nevada residents now have an extra choice to make as they brew their morning joe: cream, sugar, or…marijuana? According to Claire Shaffer of Newsweek,...
Müller Battles Corporate Traditionalism As He Pulls Volkswagen Into the Modern Age Volkswagen AG CEO Matthias Müller is fighting against a corporate culture of...
An unidentified watchdog organization is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google’s new advertising program Store Sales Management (SSM), which collects purchase data...
Two utilities companies announced Monday that they will abandon construction of a pair of nuclear reactors in South Carolina, Brad Plumer of The New...