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Google hit with £1.28bn fine by European Union for 'illegal' advertising practices

The regulator said Wednesday that Google, which is supposed to play an intermediary role for advertisers , imposed restrictive clauses in contracts with thir...

Dollar steady ahead of Fed decision; sterling slides

In Europe, France's CAC 40 rose 0.5 percent to 5,440, while Germany's DAX climbed 1 percent to 11,777. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.57 percent and ...

Ride-hailing firm Lyft launches IPO road show in Uber's shadow

By Eric Newcomer and Olivia ZaleskiLyft Inc.is seeking to raise as much as $2.1 billion in its initial public offering, valuing the firm at nearly $20 billion...

Roundup weed killer: Jury agrees Monsanto chemical contributed to California man's cancer

Hardeman's case against the company is the second brought to court, but more than 4,000 other similar cases await trial. "Today's verdict reinforces what anot...

Jet Airways plunges 5% as report claims Etihad may not invest further

A Jet Airways plane is parked as another moves to the runway at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport in Mumbai, India, February 14, 2018. "We are ensur...

Musk's Model Y Debut Leads to Tesla's Worst Post-Party Rout

Musk has been battling the SEC since last August, when he tweeted that he had " funding secured " to take Tesla private. According to the settlement between T...

Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong tie as world's priciest cities

London has become a dearer place to live in the past year, causing it to climb eight places in the world's most expensive city list, according to the latest wor...

Fisker previews electric SUV to rival the Tesla Model Y

Today brings our first look at the vehicle, which we now know will be an all-electric SUV with a standard range near 300 miles. A design trait common to both ...

Anil Ambani’s RCom pays ₹4.62 billion to Ericsson

Earlier, Ericsson had moved the apex court seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Anil Ambani for allegedly not complying with its order to clear ...

Trump addresses local union boss, Lordstown GM closure

Trump acknowledged his conversation with Barra in a tweet Sunday after he fumed in other tweets about the Lordstown, Ohio, plant shutting down. "G.M. "G.M. le...

Rising U.S. oil clout on show in Houston

Brent crude oil prices on Thursday hit their highest so far this year, pushed up by ongoing supply cuts led by OPEC and by USA sanctions against Venezuela ...

CBOE Futures Exchange To Cease Trading Bitcoin Futures Contracts

CFE is assessing its approach with respect to how it plans to continue to offer digital asset derivatives for trading. "While it considers its next steps, CFE...

Tata Motors' arm recalls 44000 cars over Carbon dioxide emissions levels in UK

The recall will affect several models, most of which run on petrol. This is believed to involve a software update in most cases although some could require ph...

Volkswagen To Accept I.D. Hatchback Pre-Orders Starting May 8

Volkswagen has made it clear its future is largely electrified, but additional context on their electrification plans continue to trickle out. Volkswagen pla...

Hammond talks up United Kingdom economy despite Brexit 'cloud'

The thinktank also warned that it could not determine whether austerity was ending and public services moving "decisively upwards after almost a decade of unpre...

Woman in crop top told to cover up or get off plane

Her humiliation was intensified, she said, when someone from the airline made comments over the speaker about the situation. O'Connor said that she borrowed a...

Tesla Model Y Reveal: updates on the much-anticipated Electric mini SUV

The launch of the new vehicle has surprised quite a few, as Musk had been guiding the launch in another 6 months. Messages were left Monday seeking comment fr...

Celebrate National Pi Day 2019 with these deals

Pizza Inn - New and existing rewards club members can buy a Chocolate Chip Pizzert for $3.14. "The apple pie was really good". All numbers aside, Pi Day also h...

Jury awards $29M in J&J baby powder cancer case

The California Superior Court in Oakland agreed that the company's baby powder was a "substantial contributing factor" to her mesothelioma , a rare and aggre...

Nissan, Renault, Mitsubishi to reorganize alliance after Ghosn's removal

The announcement at a press conference in Yokohama, where Nissan is based, was created to ease the tensions that have flared within the alliance since the a...

Oil prices rise on OPEC's supply cuts and healthy demand

The so-called OPEC+ alliance, including Russian Federation and other producers, agreed in December to reduce supply by 1.2 million bpd from 1 January for six mo...

Tesla officially unveils the Model Y

The company broke ground on the Shanghai factory in January and its CEO Elon Musk has said the firm aims to finish initial construction this summer and start pr...

Disney Is Letting Go Its Acquisition On Fox

The new Fox, which includes Fox News and the Fox broadcast network will operate as a separate company after the mega-deal closes. The Walt Disney Company pl...

Oil firms as Saudis trim exports, United States output forecast reduced

A pumpjack is seen at sunset outside Scheibenhard, near Strasbourg, France, October 6, 2017. Traders have been weighed by the prospect of record USA shale pro...

Facebook: two top executives to leave company

After CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, Cox is the third highest-ranking executive at Facebook , representing the engineering and product sides of...

Toyota investing $749 million in five US plants, adding 586 jobs

On Thursday Toyota allocated $750 million of that total to facilities in Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia. "Doubling our production ...

Google Celebrates Pi Day As Employee Calculates New World Record

Google made the announcement on March 14 (3.14), which is known as Pi Day . Iwao, a computer scientist and software engineer whose official title is cloud d...

Facebook says it’s resolved outage issues and denies attack

Facebook says its lengthy outages over the past day were the result of a "server configuration change". Some of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp's more tha...

Shares - Boeing Weighs on Dow As Gross sales Knowledge Carry S&P, Nasdaq

Boeing lost 6.1 percent after many countries grounded the Boeing plane involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash Sunday or banned it from their airspace. The Na...

Canadian authorities seek $150k double Bitcoin spending on ATM suspects

Calgary police began its investigations in October after the swindled Bitcoin ATM company alerted them of the issue. Each of the four suspects in the Bitc...

Numbers drawn for $448 million Powerball jackpot

While no one matched all the numbers, three tickets nationally matched five numbers, but not the Powerball . The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $...

Celebrating Pi Day? Pizza company offering $3.14 deal on Thursday

If you like pizza pie or just regular pie, you're in luck because today is Pi Day! It is also involved in calculating the area of a circle, the volume of a ...

Consumer prices rose 0.2% in February

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) factors in retail inflation while deciding at its monetary policy . Excluding food and energy, the so-called core consumer...

Three flights cancelled at EIA as feds ground Boeing 737 Max aircraft

A reduction in the number of planes in an airline's inventory is also likely to drive up the cost of plane tickets. "This safety notice restricts commerci...

Son’s ‘sad’ tweet boosts business for dad’s new doughnut shop

His original tweet went viral, receiving over 470,000 likes and 223,000 shares. Since posting it over the weekend, the tweet has been retweeted over 250,000 t...