Alphabet’s Chrome browser could fetch a price tag of up to $20 billion if a judge accepts a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic offensive against one of the largest technology companies in the world. The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally ...
Prosecutors who won Donald Trump’s conviction for paying hush money to a porn actress on Tuesday opposed his declared hope for the case to be dismissed now that he is president-elect, and asked a judge to set a timetable for litigating the matter. Trump, 78, hopes to assume a second term without the burden of ...
Representatives from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks met with Justice Department antitrust enforcers this week passed in a last-ditch effort to persuade the agency not to challenge its proposed $14 billion settlement, according to people familiar with the matter. The high-level meeting between companies and the Justice Department’s top antitrust officials typically takes place ...
Tesla shares rose nearly 7% in pre-market trading on Monday, after Bloomberg News reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team plans to establish federal regulations for autonomous vehicles. The report comes days after Trump named the automaker’s CEO., Elon Musk, co-director of the incoming government’s government efficiency department. Last month, Musk criticized the state-by-state approval ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday in the capital of Peru that the Asia-Pacific region must promote greater free trade, at a time when cooperation in the region faces “growing protectionism,” according to Chinese state media. This occurs in the midst of Donald Trump’s imminent return to the presidency of the United States, that looms ...
Controversy is brewing at United Nations climate negotiations over whether countries should recommit to last year’s historic pledge to abandon fossil fuels. European and American negotiators believe that the reaffirmation of the commitments agreed last year, including boosting efficiency and deploying renewable energy, is essential to avoid a setback in the global fight against climate ...
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, congratulated Peru on Friday for managing to reduce “significantly” inflation and highlighted the resilience of its economy in the midst of the onslaught of the climate. Georgieva met with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte within the framework of the leaders’ summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic ...
Old Hollywood is finally doing what Netflix has been doing for over a decade: make money with streaming. With the exception of NBCUniversal, the largest traditional media companies reported profits from their direct-to-consumer businesses last quarter, led by Walt Disney, which earned $321 million from its online video division in the final months of its ...
The South Korean delegationmade up in part of the governor and mayor of Gyeongju City, announced that his country will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in 2025. Joo Nak-young, mayor of Gyeongju, from a press conference in the Peru Zone of Promperú, at the Ministry of Culture, He highlighted that his desire is to ...
President Vladimir Putin is studying YouTube’s slowness and outages in Russia after the country’s top film official raised the issue with him, the Kremlin reported on Friday. Critics believe authorities are deliberately disrupting YouTube to prevent Russians from viewing a large amount of content critical of Putin and his government. Russia denies this, claiming that ...
