Apple needs a 5G iPhone now more than ever
Whatever high Apple executives were on in January after the company posted record earnings and strong iPhone sales during the holiday quarter has…
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Morgan Stanley is buying E-Trade for $13 billion
Morgan Stanley is buying online broker E-Trade for $13 billion in an all-stock deal, a move that shows how serious the Wall Street giant is about…
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Parents taking precautions after young girl stabbed at play area inside northeast El Paso McDonald’s
EL PASO, Texas — A random act of violence against a 5-year-old inside a northeast El Paso McDonald’s is affecting parents who would normally take…
Continue Reading Embattled WeWork revamps its C-Suite for turnaround effort
WeWork, the embattled coworking company, has made another new C-suite hire. Just two days after WeWork’s new chief executive officially…
Continue Reading Mysterious ‘1’ notification spooks Samsung Galaxy owners
A strange message with a “1” stacked on top of another “1” mysteriously popped up on Samsung Galaxy devices this week. It was…
Continue Reading HBO Max is coming to YouTube TV
WarnerMedia has reached a deal that will bring HBO Max to YouTube TV customers as it tries to promote its upcoming streaming service to as many…
Continue Reading Qantas, Air France, KLM tally up coronavirus costs
Qantas, Air France and KLM are taking a big hit from the novel coronavirus. The airlines on Thursday estimated the financial cost from the outbreak,…
Continue Reading Goldman Sachs warns of stock market correction
Stocks keep reaching record highs. Goldman Sachs is worried that leaves investors vulnerable to surprises. The investment bank told clients this week…
Continue Reading The cannabis industry’s next big threat: Hacks and fraud
Cannabis is an emerging industry with stratospheric growth expectations. Like the California Gold Rush, the dot-com boom and every other new market…
Continue Reading Cheap pizza propels Domino’s stock 25% higher
People love pizza, and they also love discounts. That combination proved successful for Domino’s, which reported strong fourth-quarter earnings…
Continue Reading A new use for McDonald’s used cooking oil: 3D printing
Professor Andre Simpson had a problem. The University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus was paying through the nose for a crucial material for…
Continue Reading Global shipping has been hit by the coronavirus. Now goods are getting stranded
The arteries of global trade are clogging up. Shipping companies that carry goods from China to the rest of the world say they are reducing the…
Continue Reading American paychecks just aren’t getting much bigger — unless you’re rich
Income inequality in the United States worsened in 2019. Earners at the top of the income ladder received the largest increase in their paychecks,…
Continue Reading Maersk operates massive container ships. It’s canceled 50 sailings over coronavirus
Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has warned of a “very weak” start to the year as the coronavirus keeps…
Continue Reading The Dow and Nasdaq are approaching big milestones. Is it too late to invest?
This stunning bull run appears to have no end in sight. The Dow and Nasdaq are both approaching splashy numerical milestones. The Dow is about 2%…
Continue Reading Goldman Sachs warns of stock market correction
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. Stocks keep…
Continue Reading The world needs a new workhorse interest rate. Finding one isn’t easy
Wall Street is struggling to find a replacement for Libor, the scandal-plagued interest rate that governs debt and contracts worth $200 trillion,…
Continue Reading UBS, the world’s largest wealth manager, is getting a new CEO
There’s another leadership change atop a major Swiss bank. UBS, the world’s largest wealth manager, has announced that Sergio Ermotti is…
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El Paso Chamber hosting ‘Bold and Brilliant’ Women in Business Conference next week
EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Chamber is hosting “Bold & Brilliant,” a conference for women in business on Tuesday, March 3 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.…
Continue Reading With 33 NBC cameras rolling and millions watching, Mike Bloomberg makes his debate stage debut in Las Vegas
A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for it here. The face-off starts at 9pm ET…
Continue Reading E. Jean Carroll says Elle declined to renew her contract for her column because of Trump’s comments
A woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her alleges that she lost her long-standing magazine column because of…
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Burger King thinks moldy Whoppers will get you to buy more burgers
Burger King is re-“molding” the image of its signature Whopper in a nauseating new ad campaign that promotes efforts to eliminate…
Continue Reading The economy is roaring. So why are more workers striking?
Labor strikes are back. Forty-six thousand GM employees made headlines last year by halting work to ask for stronger protections and better…
Continue Reading TikTok, every teenager’s favorite app, just rolled out new parental controls
TikTok is giving parents more control over how their teens are using the app. On Wednesday, the short-form video platform rolled out a new feature…
Continue Reading A Facebook page touted good deeds by Winston-Salem police officers. The department said the stories weren’t real
The Facebook page “North Carolina Breaking News” contained some posts touting good deeds by police officers in the city of Winston-Salem.…
Continue Reading Jaguar Land Rover is flying parts out of China to keep its European factories open
Jaguar Land Rover is flying auto parts made in China to its European factories instead of relying on slow-moving cargo ships, as the coronavirus…
Continue Reading Boeing says it found debris in fuel tanks of parked 737 Max jets
Boeing found debris in the fuel tanks of several 737 Max jets that have been sitting in storage. It’s the latest problem Boeing faces as it…
Continue Reading GE dodges a bullet in Trump’s battle with China
General Electric appears to have a dodged a bullet in President Donald Trump’s fight with China over the theft of American trade secrets. The…
Continue Reading Solar might be Tesla’s secret weapon
Most investors only think about electric cars when they think about Tesla. But the company’s solar power and storage battery business could be…
Continue Reading Europe unveils a new plan to compete with Silicon Valley
Europe knows it fell behind the United States and China on the technologies that dominated the past decade. Now it has a plan to catch up. On…
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