Amazon to buy vacuum maker iRobot for roughly $1.7B
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…
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Putin hosts Erdogan for talks on trade, Ukraine, Syria
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Russia for talks with…
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First, they banned facial recognition. Now they’re not so sure
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Over the past few years, a number of cities and some states enacted rules banning or restricting local police use of…
Continue Reading America has fewer open jobs. Is that reason to worry?
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For the past year, America has had a glut of open jobs. Restaurants, airlines and retail stores have raced to recruit…
Continue Reading Workers in these two industries are the only ones coming out ahead right now
By Tami Luhby, CNN At first glance, it looks like many Americans got big pay raises since the Covid-19 pandemic started. But in reality, only workers…
Continue Reading 3 more ships with grain depart Ukraine ports under UN deal
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports.…
Continue Reading Musk countersuit accuses Twitter of fraud over ‘bot’ count
Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…
Continue Reading Pacific rim economies in doldrums, sapped by inflation, war
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…
Continue Reading Farmers’ group: Talks with Dutch govt delivered ‘too little’
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest…
Continue Reading Meta quieter on election misinformation as midterms loom
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting…
Continue Reading Indian police block opposition protests over price increases
By RISHI LEKHI and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have detained dozens of lawmakers from the opposition Congress…
Continue Reading ‘What recession?’: US employers add 528,000 jobs in July
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added an astonishing 528,000 jobs last month despite flashing warning signs of…
Continue Reading What Equifax’s credit score errors mean for consumers
By AMANDA BARROSO and LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Credit bureau Equifax announced that a computer coding error resulted in the miscalculation of…
Continue Reading Wall Street falls as jobs data suggests Fed hikes not over
By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes closed mostly lower Friday after a roller-coaster…
Continue Reading India raises interest rate to 5.4%, in 3rd hike since May
ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by a half percentage point to 5.4% in its…
Continue Reading Tougher IRS enforcement central to Dem economic package
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a decade of mostly losing out, the Internal Revenue Service may finally get the…
Continue Reading Tesla investors approve stock split; Musk to add factories
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders on Thursday approved a three-for-one stock split, a move that will make the company’s shares more…
Continue Reading Beyond Meat announces layoffs after lower Q2 sales
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat says it’s laying off 4% of its workforce. The move follows a difficult…
Continue Reading Americans loaded up on $40 billion more in debt in June, Fed says
CNN, CNNBUSINESS Martha C. White for CNN Business Americans piled on $40.1 billion worth of debt in June, the Federal Reserve said Friday afternoon.…
Continue Reading As inflation takes a toll, Americans face tough decisions about medical care
By Gabe Cohen, CNN There are medicines that Angelina Scott can’t live without. Between her Atrial Fibrillation, high blood pressure and high…
Continue Reading As inflation takes a toll, Americans face tough decisions about medical care
CNN By Gabe Cohen, CNN There are medicines that Angelina Scott can’t live without. Between her Atrial Fibrillation, high blood pressure and…
Continue Reading The streaming wars are over
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business In November 2019, Disney debuted Disney+, kicking off the so-called streaming wars and prompting…
Continue Reading HBO Max and Discovery+ are combining next year
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business HBO Max and Discovery+ are finally joining forces. The long-awaited merger of the two services will debut in the US…
Continue Reading Efforts fail to save historic Alaska theater from demolition
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie…
Continue Reading Twitter responds to Musk’s claims, calls them ‘excuses’
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter denied in a court filing that it had deprived its would-be acquirer,…
Continue Reading Jury finds Alex Jones caused $4 million in damages to two Sandy Hook parents
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more than $4…
Continue Reading Democrats say they’ve reached agreement on economic package
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have agreed to eleventh-hour changes to their marquee economic legislation, they…
Continue Reading Jury finds Alex Jones caused $4 million in damages to two Sandy Hook parents
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more…
Continue Reading Jury finds Alex Jones caused $4 million in damages to two Sandy Hook parents
CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more…
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