Erika Rawes, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The end of the year is a busy time: People have the holiday season to prepare for, the New Year,...
Marcy Gordon, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — T-Mobile US will pay up to $90 million, mostly in refunds, for billing customers for cellphone text services...
Joan Lowy and Jennifer Agiesta, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans broadly back tight regulations on commercial drone operators, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll,...
(Business Week) – During the economy’s slow crawl back from recession, many companies have cut out lavish holiday parties. But with the Nasdaq up 11 percent...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — When they met at the J. W. Marriott Hotel two blocks from the White House, Linda Singer, a former attorney general...
(The Washington Post) – In the wake of President Obama’s historic decision to mend diplomatic ties with Cuba, U.S. businesses and potential tourists scrambled to...
(Business Week) – The first thing you notice about the Mirai, Toyota’s new $62,000, four-door family sedan, is that it’s no Camry, an international symbol...
(Forbes) – Last month, President Obama released a statement directed at the FCC in favor of net neutrality. In it, he threw his support behind reclassifying Internet...
BERNARD CONDON, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press MAE ANDERSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The unprecedented hack of Sony Pictures which a U.S. official...
(New York Times) – The $41 billion valuation for the ride-sharing service Uber may or may not be a bubblicious number, but it certainly shows that...
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a major new challenge after a catastrophic fall in the...
ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Only small fries with that? McDonald’s in Japan is limiting the serving size of fries as stocks run...
(International Business Times) – Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine, who is imprisoned in Iran for more than three years for allegedly spying for the...
(Black Enterprise) – By now most people have hear of crowdfunding, the method of raising capital through the collective effort of friends, family, customers, and...
BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A low-budget anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to the actors involved...
(Business Week) – Amazon (AMZN) is now taking bids. Venders who sell on Amazon can enable a “make an offer” feature that allows customers to offer a lower...
(The Root) – Analyses that evaluate the success of HBCUs by observing their six-year graduation rates often miss the mark. On the surface, graduation rates tell us...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—The Great Recession was hard on almost everyone, eroding the net worth of the typical American by...
(Reuters) – Pessimism and doubt have dominated how Americans see the economy for many years. Now, in a hopeful sign for the economic outlook, confidence is...
(Business Week) – The world’s biggest oil companies faced ruin in the summer of 1931. Crude prices had plummeted. Wildcatters were selling oil from the bonanza...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate rose to 11.1 percent in November, according to the latest jobs report...
JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Flying could get cheaper next year as airlines say they will finally start passing on some of the savings...
CINCINNATI (WCPO) – Like many little girls, Warren Johnson’s daughter wants a Barbie for Christmas. Specifically, she wants a Barbie Fashion Maker African American doll, one...
(Reuters) – A Missouri bar sparked protests after it offered a drink special on the weekend named after black teenager Michael Brown, whose shooting by police...
CANDICE CHOI, Associated Press MICHELLE CHAPMAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hold the pickles, onions and special sauce. The Big Mac is becoming a victim...
