How Small Businesses Are Stealing the Spotlight From Black Friday The stories are of nearly mythic status. On Black Friday, retailers expect hordes of frenzied shoppers to line up in the wee hours of the morning and storm their floors for the best deals on flat screen TVS and other […]
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BEIJING — A single spark can start a prairie fire, Mao Zedong said. And an impulsive outburst of bigoted words can start a wildfire on the internet in China, as a manager for Daimler, the German automaker, has learned to his regret. Daimler Greater China said it had removed a […]
Trump’s pick for attorney general could be bad news for Silicon Valley President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general probably wouldn’t have been the tech industry’s first choice. Sen. Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, is on the opposite side of several issues that are close to Silicon Valley’s heart […]
Asia shares listless but China, Japan rise on dollar’s gain HONG KONG (AP) — Shares in Japan and China rose Monday as the dollar’s strength lifted the outlook for their exporters but other Asian shares were listless as investors increasingly factored in a December Fed rate cut. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s […]
Walmart Starting Post-Black Friday Online Sales Earlier to Fight Amazon It has little choice with Amazon breathing down its neck. Walmart WMT -0.94% is trotting out post-Black Friday online deals a day earlier this year to avoid any lull during the crucial upcoming shopping weekend. With its eyes firmly on […]
Asia shares shaky as Trump bets keep emerging markets under pressure Asian shares were on the defensive on Monday, undermined by fears that the strength in the U.S. dollar and rising U.S. bond yields since Donald Trump’s election to president could accelerate fund outflows from the region back to U.S. […]
Trump’s Vow to Revive Coal Country Is Met With Measured Hope The hard-eyed view along the Tug Fork River in West Virginia coal country is that President-elect Donald Trump has something to prove: that he’ll help bring back Appalachian mining, as he promised time and again on the campaign trail. […]
Self-Driving Cars Will Soon Hit the Streets of Boston Cambridge, Mass.-based self-driving car startup nuTonomy will begin to test its vehicles in the city by the end of the year, the company said on Monday. The startup, which spun out of MIT, started testing its cars in Singapore in August, […]
Trump’s win might blow up the Federal Reserve’s plans for next year Donald Trump’s presidential victory has tossed new uncertainties into the carefully crafted plans of the Federal Reserve, complicating what was meant to be a slow-but-steady course to raise interest rates from historically low levels. The Fed still appears […]
Facebook To Ban ‘Ethnic Affinity’ Targeting For Housing, Employment, Credit-Related Ads After weeks of push back from U.S. lawmakers, media and civil rights leaders, Facebook FB -1.44% on Friday announced it will stop allowing advertisers to use “ethnic affinity” to target the reach of employment, housing and credit-related ads with […]
