Google parent Alphabet topped third-quarter revenue expectations on Tuesday, helped by steady growth in its digital advertising business and an AI-driven jump in demand for its cloud services. Shares of the company rose more than 3% in extended trading. CEO Sundar Pichai said investments in AI were “paying off” through use and sales in its Search … Read more
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The U.S offshore wind energy industry says it needs to fight back against disinformation being spread by opponents of wind farms. During the first day of a national offshore wind conference Tuesday in New Jersey, which has become ground zero for vocal, well-organized opposition to such projects, numerous industry officials said … Read more
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X, thanks to a recent run-up in the shares of the parent company of the former president’s social media platform. Trump Media & Technology Group is now valued at over $10 billion after its shares more than quadrupled since late September. … Read more
Getty Images Minimum wages will rise in April, with hourly rates for over-21s set to go up to £12.21 an hour, the chancellor has confirmed ahead of Wednesday’s Budget. Rachel Reeves said the pay boost marked a “significant step” towards achieving Labour’s promise of a “genuine living wage” for workers. Employees aged 18 to 20 … Read more
It may soon get quicker and easier to get your McFlurry fix — and McDonald’s franchisees won’t have to break the law to make it happen. The US Copyright Office has granted a long-anticipated exemption that allows third parties to diagnose and repair broken machines — including the chronically broken devices that serve up ice … Read more
Elon Musk’s X on Monday blocked an account tied to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after it posted a message in Hebrew. The account was suspended after Israel attacked Iran this past weekend in response to Iran’s barrage of 200 rockets targeting the Jewish state earlier this month. “In the name of God, the … Read more
Shares of Crocs tumbled 18% after the comfy shoe maker posted disappointing profits, blaming its struggling loafer brand, HeyDude. Crocs executives admitted during a Tuesday earnings call that its 2022 HeyDude acquisition is dinging its otherwise strong growth. The Broomfield, Colo.-based company said overall 2024 sales will rise 3% compared with its previous estimate of … Read more
RESERVE, La. — A chemical manufacturing plant west of New Orleans has agreed to pay a $480,000 federal fine and install equipment to stop the release of a cancer-causing chemical from a storage tank and pipe. The consent agreement and final order outlining the settlement between DuPont and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was filed … Read more
A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E. coli outbreak was detected. Kamberlyn Bowler, of Grand Junction, Colorado, had to be flown 250 miles to a hospital near Denver in mid-October, where she received dialysis … Read more
LAS VEGAS — Federal investigators say an electrical system malfunctioned, the autopilot quit and some radio communications were disrupted aboard a Frontier Airlines plane shortly before the pilots made a fiery but safe emergency landing in Las Vegas earlier this month. No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured Oct. 5 … Read more