Federal Reserve Foresees No Interest Rate Hikes in 2019

Federal Reserve Foresees No Interest Rate Hikes in 2019

The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday and projected no rate hikes in 2019, dramatically underscoring its...

Even With Trade Deal, US Tariffs on China Could Remain

Even With Trade Deal, US Tariffs on China Could Remain

U.S. tariffs on China are likely to remain in place for a while, even if a trade deal is reached,...

BMW Warns Profits Will Fall Due to Costs, Trade Uncertainty

BMW Warns Profits Will Fall Due to Costs, Trade Uncertainty

German automaker BMW said Wednesday that profits in 2019 would be “well below” last year’s and that it planned to...

EU Fines Google $1.7 Billion for Abusing Online Ads Market

EU Fines Google $1.7 Billion for Abusing Online Ads Market

European Union regulators have hit Google with a 1.49 billion euro ($1.68 billion) fine for abusing its dominant role in...

Trump Linking Huawei, China Trade Roils Justice Department

Trump Linking Huawei, China Trade Roils Justice Department

President Donald Trump shocked some last month when he suggested that the criminal charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies and its chief financial officer, Meng...

Venezuelans Find Ways to Cope with Inflation and Hunger

Venezuelans Find Ways to Cope with Inflation and Hunger

Francibel Contreras brings her three malnourished children to a soup kitchen in the dangerous hillside Caracas slum of Petare where...

Robotics Company Creates an All Purpose Robot ‘Platform’

Robotics Company Creates an All Purpose Robot ‘Platform’

A robotics company hopes to bring a robot into every home and business, using a proprietary robotic platform—that can be...

Trump Accuses Twitter, Facebook, Google of Siding with ‘Radical Left Democrats’

Trump Accuses Twitter, Facebook, Google of Siding with ‘Radical Left Democrats’

U.S. President Donald Trump has accused social media outlets, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, of being biased, and suggested that...

In End of 20th Century Fox, a New Era Dawns for Hollywood

In End of 20th Century Fox, a New Era Dawns for Hollywood

The Fox Studio backlot, first built in 1926 on a Culver City ranch in Los Angeles, was enormous. Before much...

Goodbye Console? Google Launches Game-streaming Platform

Goodbye Console? Google Launches Game-streaming Platform

Google on Tuesday unveiled a video-game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on the traditional video-game business. The...

High-Stakes Boeing Inquiry Hinges on Ethiopia Black Box Secrets

High-Stakes Boeing Inquiry Hinges on Ethiopia Black Box Secrets

The investigation into the final minutes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 turned on Tuesday to the secrets in the cockpit...

Warner Bros.’ Chief Tsujihara Steps Down Following Scandal

Warner Bros.’ Chief Tsujihara Steps Down Following Scandal

Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara, one of the highest ranking Hollywood executives to be felled by sexual misconduct allegations, stepped...

AP Source: Justice Dept. Probing Development of Boeing Jets

AP Source: Justice Dept. Probing Development of Boeing Jets

U.S. prosecutors are looking into the development of Boeing’s 737 Max jets, a person briefed on the matter revealed Monday,...

In Thai Election, New ‘War Room’ Polices Social Media

In Thai Election, New ‘War Room’ Polices Social Media

In Thailand’s election “war room,” authorities scroll through thousands of social media posts, looking for violations of laws restricting political...

Tech Consortium Flags More Than 800 Versions of New Zealand Attack Video

Tech Consortium Flags More Than 800 Versions of New Zealand Attack Video

A consortium of global technology firms has shared on its collective database the digital fingerprints of more than 800 versions...

S. Korea Alert System Warns ‘Smartphone Zombies’ of Traffic

S. Korea Alert System Warns ‘Smartphone Zombies’ of Traffic

A city in South Korea, which has the world’s highest smartphone penetration rate, has installed flickering lights and laser beams...

Facebook Says Service Hindered by Lack of Local News

Facebook Says Service Hindered by Lack of Local News

Facebook’s effort to establish a service that provides its users with local news and information is being hindered by the...

US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei

US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei

VOA’s Xu Ning contributed to this report. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. government has launched a seemingly unprecedented campaign...

Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers

Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers

U.S. President Donald Trump is attacking General Motors, the country’s biggest automaker, for costing 5,400 factory workers their jobs when...

OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place

OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place

Oil producer group OPEC on Monday scrapped its planned meeting in April and will decide instead whether to extend output...

France Starts New Chapter in National Debate Aimed to End Yellow-Vest Crisis

France Starts New Chapter in National Debate Aimed to End Yellow-Vest Crisis

After wrapping up thousands of town hall meetings, France starts a new chapter of its “great debate,” aimed to address...

Facebook Still Working to Remove All Videos of New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Facebook Still Working to Remove All Videos of New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Facebook is continuing to work to remove all video of the mass shooting in New Zealand which the perpetrator livestreamed...