Tesla breaks ground on first factory outside U.S. in Shanghai
BEIJING — Tesla Inc. broke ground Monday for a factory in Shanghai, its first outside the United States. CEO Elon Musk said Monday on Twitter that the company will start production in China of its...
View ArticleSmartphones risk bringing on arrival of the Antichrist, warns head of Russian...
MOSCOW — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says the data-gathering capacity of devices such as smartphones risks bringing humanity closer to the arrival of the Antichrist. In an interview shown...
View ArticleMastercard is changing up its logo by dropping its name
What’s in a name? For MasterCard, not enough to keep it in the logo. The company is removing the word Mastercard from the pair of interlocking red and yellow circles where it has resided for more than...
View ArticleNo word on progress after 2nd day of China-US trade talks
BEIJING — Talks between the U.S. and China on ending their tariff war were ending their second day Tuesday without word on whether they’ve made any progress, as an official newspaper warned not to push...
View ArticleNissan’s ex-chair Ghosn appears in court, asserts innocence
TOKYO — The former chairman of Japan’s Nissan Motor Co., Carlos Ghosn, denied any wrongdoing and proclaimed his loyalty to the company at a court hearing in Tokyo on Tuesday. It was Ghosn’s first...
View ArticleSamsung, like Apple, feels sting of slowing global growth
NEW YORK — Samsung expects its quarterly operating profit to fall 29 per cent compared with last year, adding to the tech sector’s unease about the effect of slowing global economic growth on the...
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Like it or not, everyday items for the home are getting smarter — and creepier
NEW YORK — One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels. Internet-connected “smarts” are creeping into cars, refrigerators,...
View ArticleBurger King trolls Trump over Twitter typo — did it go too far?
DETROIT — Burger King is needling President Donald Trump for his tweet about ordering more than 1,000 “hamberders” for the Clemson University Tigers’ visit to the White House after winning the college...
View ArticleJohn Bogle dies at 89; fought for lower fees for investors
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — When he lost his job running a mutual fund company after stocks tanked in the early 70’s, John C. Bogle decided that money managers knew very little about predicting the market —...
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Mexico has a fuel theft epidemic — and Friday it exploded in a fiery ball of...
TLAHUELILPAN, Mexico — People in the town where a gasoline explosion killed at least 85 people say the section of pipeline that gushed fuel has been a habitual gathering site for thieves, repeatedly...
View ArticleRussia: 2 ships catch fire in Black Sea, 10 sailors dead
MOSCOW — Two Tanzanian-flagged commercial vessels caught fire in the Black Sea, leaving at least 10 sailors dead, Russian officials said Monday. Seven sailors were missing. The Federal Agency for the...
View ArticleFootball great Joe Montana looking to score with marijuana
SAN FRANCISCO — Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, looking to hit pay dirt in the legal marijuana industry, is part of a $75 million investment in a pot operator, it was announced Thursday. San...
View ArticleBrazil firefighters search mud after dam collapse, 60 dead
BRUMADINHO, Brazil — Brazilian firefighters moved over treacherous mud — sometimes walking, sometimes crawling — as they searched Monday for survivors or bodies following a dam collapse that buried an...
View Article‘Stop the unreasonable crackdown’: China calls on Washington to withdraw...
BEIJING — China called on the U.S. government on Tuesday to “stop the unreasonable crackdown” on Huawei after the United States stepped up pressure on the tech giant by indicting it on charges of...
View ArticleGM Canada says Unifor Super Bowl ad calling automaker ‘un-Canadian’ and...
The Canadian subsidiary of General Motors has tried to stop an autoworkers’ union from airing a critical TV commercial during the Super Bowl, but the union said it planned to move forward with the ad...
View ArticleTesla knocks $1,100 off price of the Model 3
DETROIT — Tesla is cutting US$1,100 from the base price of its car designed for the mass market, the Model 3. The electric car company now says on its website that the car starts at US$42,900, still a...
View ArticleGucci pulls ‘blackface sweater’ from stores after complaints
ROME — Gucci has apologized after complaints that a wool sweater with an oversized collar designed to cover the face resembled blackface makeup, and said the item had been pulled from its online and...
View ArticleTwitter posts bigger quarterly profit, as daily user base grows and monthly...
NEW YORK — Twitter is reporting that revenue and profit and its daily user base all grew in the final three months of 2018. But its monthly user count slipped and guidance for the current quarter was...
View ArticleBezos says Enquirer threatened to publish revealing pics
LOS ANGELES — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday he was the target of “extortion and blackmail” by the publisher of the National Enquirer, which he said threated to publish revealing personal photos...
View ArticleEurozone recession talk mounts as industry slumps
LONDON — Slumping industrial output across the 19-country eurozone is stoking talk of a possible recession this year, even before any additional damage from Brexit. Official figures on Wednesday showed...
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