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Google Shuts Down ''Censored'' Chinese Search Project

This past August, a report surfaced claiming that Google was working on a censored version of its search engine for the Chinese market and was preparing to la...

California Backtracks on Plan to Tax Text Messages

State regulators in California have abandoned a plan to tax text messaging as a way to boost revenue, citing a recent ruling by the Federal Communications Com...

China Will 'Never Seek Hegemony' Says President Xi Jinping

The report was in line with what diplomatic sources had previously told Reuters . Xi was speaking amid mounting pressure to accelerate reforms and improve ma...

Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead in NY

Police said they found what appeared to be cocaine and heroin in the apartment. The company released a statement Sunday saying its thoughts were with his "f...

U.S. slams China trade policies, says will lead reform at WTO

President Donald Trump's administration says the WTO is dysfunctional because it has failed to hold China to account for not opening up its economy as envisaged...

Boeing Zhoushan project in China

Meanwhile, China is set to surpass the U.S.as the world's largest air travel market by 2022, according to the International Air Transport Association. Comment...

Police warning Netflix customers of new scam targeting payment information

Several other variations of the email have since been sent, such as claiming the customer's payment didn't go through, and they need to update their billing inf...

Renault asks Nissan to call shareholder meeting

Ghosn's arrest in Japan for alleged financial misconduct has shaken the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, with Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa calling for changes...

Florida man offers to trade marijuana for food at McDonald's drive-thru

A man in Florida, who may have been suffering from a mad case of the munchies, tried to barter "a baggie" of weed in exchange for some McDonald's at a drive-thr...

'Incident on board' forces Tigerair flight to turn back to Sydney

The flight touched down safely at Sydney airport around 8:30pm and passengers began to disembark from the plane two hours later. A police spokeswoman said o...

Dow dumps 400 points, on track for lowest close since April

Those comments triggered early bloodletting, which worsened in the afternoon. Wall Street closed lower on Friday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.1 p...

Independent review calls for further study of Massey Tunnel replacement options

The cost to replace the aging tunnel with a 10-lane bridge had been pegged at $3.5 billion, however a report to Delta council past year found that a competing b...

Asos warning increases fears for high street

The group also revised down its earnings (EBIT) margin to 2% from 3%. Sports Director tycoon Mike Ashley last week described the month as "the worst for ret...

'Robin Hood' rains cash on Hong Kong street

A video of the event posted on Facebook shows hundreds of HK$100 notes fluttering through the sky to the ground. It appears as though the notes were thrown ...

Ex-CEO Les Moonves Will Not Receive $120M Severance Payment

Investigators also looked into broader claims of a sexist culture at the company and concluded that "harassment and retaliation are not pervasive at CBS", the c...

Delivery Robot Catches Fire in California

The Kiwibot fire was less spectacular than the lithium-ion battery fire that consumed NASA's RoboSimian droid in 2016, but it still lit up more than a few pos...

Federal judge rules Obama's health care overhaul unconstitutional

President Donald Trump termed the ruling "a big big victory by a highly respected judge" and an alternative path to the long-time Republican goal of repeal-and-...

Lincoln Continental Coach Door Edition is limited to 80 units - with steep price tag

Each of the 80 examples produced in 2019 will be individually numbered on the door sill. While the new Continental Coach Door Edition isn't quite that special...

ICBC proposing 6.3% rate increase

The escalating cost of injury claims is the single biggest factor impacting basic insurance rates - injury claims costs have soared by 43% in just five years; p...

Investor stumps up cash to save record-chasing Bloodhound auto project

Charlie, 18, had heard that a British project to build a supersonic auto had collapsed and the vehicle was going to be broken-up and sold off. Its financial c...

Jaguar Land Rover 'poised to cut 5000 jobs'

Jaguar Land Rover will announce plans early next year to cut thousands of jobs as part of a turnaround strategy, the Financial Times reported , citing sev...

Google reveals plan for $1B NY expansion with new campus

Ruth Porat, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Google and Alphabet, said in a blog post Monday that Google is creating a more than 1.7 milli...

Naughty parrot befriends owner’s Alexa and orders goodies from Amazon

However, it has also given some owners sleepless nights when it started laughing creepily , or making statements saying " I see people dying ". A sneaky parr...

More Recalls as E. Coli Warnings Hit Lettuce, Cauliflower

The farm issued a news release on December 13, saying it was recalling the cauliflower "out of an abundance of caution" and that there had been no reports of ...

New rules set to ban gender stereotyping in adverts

To justify the move, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP ) has elaborated that stereotypes in ads risk contributing to "how people see themselves and th...

California farm recalls cauliflower following romaine lettuce recall

Farms in Santa Barbara County tested positive for the bacterial strain and the owners are cooperating with USA officials. Almost 60 illnesses from contaminate...

This Is the Largest Diamond Ever Found in North America

The 552-carat yellow gem quality stone, unearthed in October, measures around 3cm by 5.5cm, nearly three times the size of the next largest stone ever found in ...

Revolut to ramp up Irish services after securing European Union banking licence

The company also plans to break into lending, confirming plans to offer standard overdraft facilities as well as business loans at competitive rates. "Our vis...

The worst passwords used in 2018 have been revealed

Many experts now recommend a password made up of a few words that are picked at random, a technique popularized by Diceware . Furthermore, he added , "The...

ECB Cuts 2019 Eurozone Growth & Inflation Outlook

While net purchases are over, a second European Central Bank policy tool - historically low interest rates - aimed at supporting economic expansion by encouragi...