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According to officials, the collapse of the dam in the hilly, pastoral region has killed at least ninety-nine people, with another two hundred and fifty missing...

Apple engineer attempted to leak confidential information to China

Jizhong Chen allegedly took photographs of machinery in Apple facilities, despite recently signing an oath of strict confidentiality when he joined the company...

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Previous year in September the company's chief accounting officer, Dave Morton, resigned after less than a month. Profits reached £252.8million, only the seco...

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Infants already susceptible to the adverse effects of ibuprofen may be at a slightly higher risk if they receive medication from an impacted bottle. A New Jer...

Amazon shares fall after first-quarter sales forecast misses estimates

Amazon Web Services - Amazon's cloud hosting platform that powers a significant chunk of the public internet - generated $7.430 billion Dollars (roughly $9.75 ...

Facebook Surges After Big Q4 Earnings Beat (NASDAQ:FB)

The company brought in $16.9 billion in revenue, up 30 percent year-over-year and beating analysts' predictions of $16.39 billion. Facebook today announced...

Cold Weather and Gas Shortages Close Auto Plants in MI

Dozens of MI auto plants and large commercial buildings that were forced to close or cut operations Thursday due to a natural gas shortage can resume production...

Volkswagen electric dune buggy revealed in new images

Volkswagen is bringing back the iconic Beach Buggy albeit as an electric concept at the upcoming 2019 Geneva Motor Show . According to Autocar magazine in ...

Chromebooks are Windows’ greatest enemy, Microsoft earnings reveal

That's an increase from the same period a year ago, in which Microsoft took in $28.9 billion in revenue and a loss of $6.3 billion in net income. Microsoft'...

Trump says US-China trade talks ‘going well’

The Trump administration has imposed punitive tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports to compel Beijing to change its trading practices, prompting B...

US Judge Finds PG&E Violated Criminal Probation

These promises will likely come up in a Wednesday hearing where the federal court judge overseeing PG&E's criminal probation for its role in causing the deadl...

Tesla Model Y is on the way -- in 2020

The results came almost nearly two weeks after the electric-car maker warned the pressure to achieve a profit and make the Model 3 more affordable led to more t...

Toyota, Nissan global sales fall short of Volkswagen

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance narrowly held onto its place as the top seller of cars previous year despite the spectacular arrest of its boss Carlos...

Alibaba revenue growth slows, margins decline in December quarter

The chief financial officer of Alibaba, Maggie Wu, stated: "In the December quarter, we delivered strong top-line growth of 41 per cent year-over-year". Tsai al...

EU's Jean-Claude Juncker rebuffs UK's plan to change Brexit deal

Michel Barnier told France's RTL radio that the two-year divorce negotiations had looked for an alternative to the "Irish backstop", created to ensure that th...

India’s unemployment rate hit 45-year high in 2017/18

Earlier, the NSSO, a division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), released data that suggested that unemployment in India st...

Fed to be "patient" with rate changes

The results helped Wall Street reverse two down days that was triggered by profit warnings from US bellwethers that signaled a bigger impact from a slowdown in ...

Foxconn reconsidering plans to make LCD panels at Wisconsin plant

News that FoxConn is slowly reversing its promises of manufacturing investment and job-creation will come as no surprise to progressive analysts and corporate w...

Venezuela: Juan Guaido barred from leaving by Supreme Court

Though the opposition largely boycotted the 2018 presidential election last May-and they were criticized as fraudulent by some-Maduro won with more than 67 perc...

Huawei case 'separate' from US-China trade

Huawei has repeatedly denied such suggestions, insisting that it is a private, employee-owned company that has never done anything underhanded. That may be h...

Peaches, nectarines, plums recalled from Aldi stores in Southeast

No illnesses have yet been reported. The federal agency said the bacteria was detected during a routine sampling program by a packing house. The peaches and...

The US lifted sanctions against companies of the Russian oligarch

In a press release, the US Treasury said the three companies managed to meet the necessary conditions of reducing the " direct and indirect shareholding stake...

Caterpillar fourth quarter profit misses estimate badly, shares slide

Caterpillar returned to profitability in the fourth quarter, but sales have begun to slow in China and earnings failed to measure up to expectations on Wall St...

Brazilian mining company pledges payments to dam mudslide victims

Reuters witnesses saw homes knocked over, roadways washed out and a rail bridge demolished by the wave of mud. TUV SUD do Brasil, which performs industrial i...

Tyson recalls chicken nuggets, may contain rubber

TL;DR The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a Canada-wide recall on Salmonella contaminated chicken nuggets that have already led to an illness outb...

Can the U.S. force Nicolas Maduro to step down?

Opening a case against Guaido comes as global pressure mounts against Maduro's government from the United States, which earlier in the day handed control over V...

Electrify America network at full strength after brief fast-charger shutdown

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Ocala Taco Bell reopens after bomb squad investigates grenade

The Ocala Police Department says it was removed without incident and will be disposed of properly. Authorities cleared the restaurant, located on East Silve...

Nissan Says It’s ‘Cooperating Fully’ With Inquiry By SEC

Nissan has accused its former chairman Carlos Ghosn , first arrested on November 19, of financial misconduct. The carmaker also has been indicted, a step that ...

Postal Service suspends delivery in western IL on Wednesday due to cold

Finally, late Tuesday night, the postal service said things would be back to normal Wednesday in Kansas and Missouri. Classes were canceled in several of thos...

USA gives opposition leader Guaido control over some Venezuelan assets

When asked if the US was ruling out military action in the instance that Maduro refuses to cede power, Mulvaney said, "I don't think any president of any party ...

Brexit: What are the key amendments tabled by MPs?

The plan - called the The Malthouse Compromise after Kit Malthouse who brought the parties together - would lead to Britain leaving the European Union "on tim...

Document: Indictment of Huawei, Huawei Subsidiaries and CFO Meng Wanzhou

In a separate case , the Justice Department said Huawei stole robotic technology from carrier T-Mobile US Inc. When T-Mobile found out and threatened to sue,...

USA charges Huawei with violating sanctions and stealing trade secrets

She was arrested on December 1 in Canada. Those charges are related to allegations that Huawei committed financial fraud by violating U.S. sanctions again...

Venezuela’s Juan Guaido Thanks Netanyahu for Recognizing Presidency

Maduro says the United States is promoting a coup against him and promised to stay in office, backed by Russian Federation and China, which have bankrolled hi...