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California’s Largest Utility Plans Bankruptcy As CEO Makes For The Exit

Still, the utility vowed to provide "safe natural gas and electric service to customers." . "PG&E remains committed to assisting the communities affected by wi...

Elon Musk Exhibits Off Totally Assembled SpaceX Starship

About 600 of the firm's 6,000-strong workforce are being laid off, with the company blaming "extraordinary hard challenges ahead" for its decision. Under the ...

Kelowna posts gains in home prices to end the year

According to figures released Friday from Royal LePage, the average price of a home in London rose nearly nine per cent year-over-year to over $388,000 in the f...

United Kingdom family forced to sit on floor on flight

However once in the air, they had to move as the crew were preparing food and drinks. But for one British family returning from a summer vacation past year, a...

Samsung may end up supplying modems for 5G iPhones

Apple split orders between Intel and Qualcomm in 2016 and moved all of its orders to Intel past year for its new iPhones. Those networks are expected to sta...

CPI Inflation Falls To An 18-Month Low

According to the data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, food inflation remained in the negative zone at 2.51 per cent compare...

First Samsung Galaxy M Smartphones Set to Debut on January 28

While the firm has yet to spill the beans on the possible spec of the smartphones under the new series, a number of leaks have however given away details specs ...

Ghosn Deputy Resigns From Nissan a Week After Going on Leave

As chairman of Nissan , Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp, the globe-trotting Ghosn had access to a string of residences around the world, including additi...

Autoworkers to protest during GM investors meeting in Windsor, Ont., today

The estimates the closure of the plant by the end of the year will result in 14,000 fewer jobs in Ontario and 10,000 fewer jobs outside the province by 2025, co...

Debenhams announces Christmas sales drop

Debenhams said the results are down to tough trading conditions in the United Kingdom, but said it still expects to deliver current year profits in line with m...

Government shutdown impacting breweries, wineries and distilleries

Paul Gatza of the Brewers Association estimates that half of all craft breweries in the US find themselves in the same dilemma. Because the government's been ...

Aphria chief executive and co-founder stepping aside from executive roles

Aphria was hit with bad press in the past over its acquisition of Nuuvera as Neufeld and other executives held a substantial interest in the smaller firm and m...

Oil drops 1 percent on US-China trade talks, American supply surge

Japan's Nikkei 225 index advanced 1 percent to 20,359.70 and South Korea's Kospi was 0.6 percent higher at 2,075.57. The Shanghai Composite surged 0.7 percent t...

Ocasio-Cortez Campaign Fined for Shorting Staffers on Worker's Comp Coverage

How did Ocasio-Cortez respond? Since upsetting six-term incumbent Joe Crowley in a primary last summer and winning election to Crowley's old seat in November,...

UK GDP growth falls to six-month low

The ONS said Friday it estimates the economy grew 0.3% in the three months through November, an annualized rate of 1%. Separately, the ONS data dump also ...

Carlos Ghosn indicted on two new charges

At the end of the almost two-hour hearing, his lawyers applied for him to be freed but the court slapped this down, arguing he was a flight risk and could tampe...

Apple plans new iPhone lineup despite sales worries

The iPhone XR is Apple's budget model and comes with an LCD screen and thicker bezels around its screen. Apple plans to introduce some new camera features, in...

Alphabet board faces lawsuit over alleged sexual misconduct cover-up

The New York Times reported that Rubin was one of two male executives who received generous exit packages despite having "credible" claims of sexual miscon...

Retail turnover rises 0.4 per cent in November

There was a monthly rise in food retailing, up 0.2 per cent to $11 billion, as well as a lift for department stores, up 0.4 per cent to $1.57 billion. The slowd...

Embraer Soars in Sao Paulo as Bolsonaro Approves Boeing Deal

Under the terms of the agreement announced a month ago, a new company will be formed to take care of the development and production of Embraer commercial aircra...

Powerball ticket worth $250K to expire Thursday

That means that that for the second time in six months, the division one prize will now be $100 million. About one third of Australian adults had an entry in ...

Hike or hold? Bank of Canada expected to announce interest rate today

Following the Bank of Canada's decision to keep the overnight rate target unchanged at 1.75%, Governor Stephen S. Poloz, and Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A....

Lenovo leads PC shipments for 4Q18 and for the year overall

Gartner noted that PC makers were also hit by the processor shortage since they couldn't meet business PC upgrade demand. It's not the largest drop around, bu...

Twin jobs blow to United Kingdom motor industry from Jaguar and Ford

American carmaker Ford plans to cut 1,150 jobs in the UK, the Unite union said on Friday. Ford Motor Co . said Thursday it is cutting jobs in Europe as it re...

Elon Musk posts first glimpse of SpaceX's finished Starship test vehicle

The first launch of that capsule, without a crew, is planned for February. Last month, SpaceX launched its first national security space mission for the US ...

Apple Cuts Revenue Forecast on Weak China Sales

Apple has been an absolute juggernaut in terms of sales, growth, revenue, and profit for shareholders. In his letter to investors, Cook touted continued tract...

Dangote's wealth dips by $2b, Adenuga's up by $3.9b

Aliko Dangote at the Africa Investment Forum/Twitter. In the last one year, Dangote's net worth dropped almost $2 billion, Forbes , said it was due to a rou...

AT&T to end all location-data sales to data brokers

But cell phone companies deserve some attention, too. Fast forward to this month, and journalist Joe Cox was able to pay a bounty hunter $300 to have someone's ...

You Can Now Buy a 27-Pound Bucket of Mac and Cheese

At $89.99, it's practically a deal at just about $2 per serving. He was here the day it arrived. A reviewer on the Costco website writes: "I was surprised"....

GIC joins German mobile bank N26’s US$300m funding round

It brings N26's total funding to date to more than $500m, with previous backers also including Tencent, Allianz X and entrepreneur Peter Thiel's Valar Venture...

Flybe bought by Virgin-led consortium

Flybe, still one of the UK's best-known airlines despite its troubles, put itself up for sale back in November after a slump in first-half profits. The move...

Saudi Arabia revises upward proven oil & gas reserves

However, it is unclear to what extent the talks with China and al-Falih's remarks will keep the market buoyed, especially given the U.S. Energy Information Ad...

Detroit federal employees protest government shutdown

TSA has downplayed reports that a rise in airport screeners calling out sick - or even quitting their jobs - has led to long lines at security. The shutdown...

Ring employees can reportedly access customers' live camera feeds

According to The Intercept , Ring's Neighbours service struggled with object identification, leading to the employment of the Ukrainian team to help teach ...

Donald Trump weighs in on Jeff Bezos' divorce: ‘I wish him luck’

The ups and downs of the stock market and other economic indicators made even the fortunes of the world's billionaires seem a little volatile, and one of the ...