Electric cars hit record 54% of sales in Norway as VW overtakes Tesla
Battery electric vehicles accounted for more than half of all cars sold in Norway last year, putting the country way out in front in efforts to kill…
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Microsoft to AMD: Please help us!
Staying home and gaming is definitely a trend during the pandemic, but it has been hard for people to get their hands on the latest consoles. Since…
Continue Reading Ex-Trump adviser Gary Cohn joins IBM as vice chairman
Gary Cohn, who quit a top job at Goldman Sachs to join the Trump administration in 2017, is the new vice chairman at tech giant IBM. Cohn said in a…
Continue Reading Elephant ivory still being sold on eBay despite 12-year ban
Elephant ivory is still being sold on eBay despite the online marketplace introducing a ban more than a decade ago, researchers have found. Sellers…
Continue Reading Welcome back to work, everything is broken
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Continue Reading Honey, the pandemic shrunk our wedding cake
Jennifer Bunce-Timmons is used to making extravagant cakes for weddings. But over the summer, she got a request that was on another level. Instead of…
Continue Reading Alibaba is shutting down its music streaming app
Alibaba is shutting down its music streaming app next month, signaling an end to the Chinese tech firm’s big music ambitions. The company…
Continue Reading The 2 big reasons stocks are struggling as 2021 kicks off
The new year was meant to usher in greater certainty, with Covid-19 vaccination efforts ramping up and the US election in the rearview mirror.…
Continue Reading Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett tried to solve health care. 3 years later, their company has shut down
Haven, an ambitious health care company formed just three years ago as a partnership between Amazon, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and…
Continue Reading OPEC and Russia divided over how much oil the world needs right now
A group of major oil producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia is deadlocked over whether to increase output as the pandemic forces some economies…
Continue Reading More than 170 business leaders sign letter urging Congress to accept Biden’s win
More than 170 prominent business leaders signed a letter urging Congress to accept the Electoral College results that declared Joe Biden as the next…
Continue Reading Wall Street reverses plan to kick out Chinese telecom companies
The New York Stock Exchange has reversed its decision to kick out three of China’s largest state-owned telecom companies. The exchange said…
Continue Reading Where is Jack Ma? Tech tycoon silent as China gets tough with his business
Jack Ma’s businesses are under enormous pressure right now. But the co-founder of China’s most successful tech empire and legendary…
Continue Reading Google workers have formed the company’s first-ever union
Hundreds of employees at Google and its parent, Alphabet, have launched a union, a rare step for the tech industry that also represents the biggest…
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Convicted felon held without bond after caught with loaded gun at Las Cruces Walmart that banned him
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A convicted felon was being held in the Dona Ana County jail without bond Monday after police said they found the man…
Continue Reading Dow closes down nearly 400 points on first trading day of 2021
NEW YORK, NY — It was a rocky first trading day of the year for Wall Street as stocks fell sharply, with the Dow dropping more than 600 points…
Continue Reading Dow tumbles on first trading day of 2021
It was a rocky first trading day of the year for Wall Street as stocks fell sharply and investors grew worried about the the pandemic and the…
Continue Reading Janet Yellen made millions giving speeches to Wall Street banks she’ll soon regulate
Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Treasury secretary, made more than $7 million in recent years by giving speeches to Wall…
Continue Reading Haven — the joint health care venture by Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan — is shutting down
Haven, an ambitious health care company formed just three years ago as a partnership between Amazon, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and…
Continue Reading Dow tumbles more than 500 points on first trading day of 2021
The Dow tumbled more than 500 points in the early afternoon on Monday, the first trading day of the New Year, as investors grew worried about the the…
Continue Reading Bitcoin’s bubble could burst, warns Anthony Scaramucci. But he’s still a mega-bull
Bitcoin prices more than quadrupled in 2020 and surged to a new record above $30,000 this year, but many investors think there’s still room for…
Continue Reading Slack welcomes workers back with a service outage
New year, same telecommuting headaches. Slack, a popular workplace communication platform, confirmed a service interruption for some users on Monday…
Continue Reading MGM makes $11 billion bid for UK gambling group
MGM Resorts International is attempting to buy the owner of British gambling brand Ladbrokes, making it the latest US casino operator to place a…
Continue Reading Chipotle’s slimming down for the new year too, adding cauliflower rice to its menu
Chipotle is adding cauliflower rice to its menu as customers’ tastes shift toward healthier options. Beginning Monday, the cilantro-lime…
Continue Reading Bitcoin’s rally could be a sign of what’s in store for markets in 2021
Investors are gearing up for a turbocharged 2021. Want evidence? Look at the price of Bitcoin. What’s happening: Just a few weeks ago, Wall…
Continue Reading She was promoted just in time to lead TikTok through a ‘Category 5 storm’
Years before Vanessa Pappas became the public face of TikTok, she interviewed for a job hosting a car show at a buzzy video production company that…
Continue Reading Herbalife is buying back more than half of Carl Icahn’s stake
The legendary activist investor Carl Icahn is dumping a massive chunk of his stake in Herbalife Nutrition and giving up his firm’s seats on the…
Continue Reading Wall Street will kick out three big Chinese telecom companies
Washington’s battle with Beijing is escalating once more on Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange will end trading in the shares of three of…
Continue Reading Britain inoculates 1st patient in the world with the Oxford-AstraZeneca virus vaccine
LONDON, ENGLAND — The U.K. has became the first country in the world to start using the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and…
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Pay attention to the propaganda, and other ways to cover an attempted coup in America
A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Sunday showed how.…
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