SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s revenue grew, but Wall Street wanted more. Parent company Alphabet’s stock fell more than 4% after financial results came out Monday, even as profits rose 19% and beat expectations for the last three months of the year. Helped by lower taxes, Alphabet said Monday it earned $10.7 billion, or $15.35 […]

UTAH (JTA) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience at a tech conference that he has “become more religious” in recent years. Zuckerberg was interviewed Friday evening at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit. “The last few years have been really humbling for me,” Zuckerberg said. “I’ve become more religious.” He attributed his religious […]

BANGKOK (AP) — China’s main stock index tumbled nearly 8% Monday as the country’s markets reopened and regulators sought to calm investors over the impact of a virus that has spread to more than 20 countries and killed more than 360 people. Other markets, including in Europe and Wall Street futures, were up slightly. The […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A former telecommunications executive convicted in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history died just over a month after his early release from prison. Bernard Ebbers was 78. The former WorldCom chief died Sunday, according to a family statement cited by WAPT-TV in Mississippi. The Mississippi-based WorldCom collapsed […]

PICKETT, Wis. (AP) — At Rosendale Dairy, each of the 9,000 cows has a microchip implanted in an ear that workers can scan with smartphones for up-to-the-minute information on how the animal is doing — everything from their nutrition to their health history to their productivity. Feed is calibrated to deliver a precise diet and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Need more proof that Amazon is big? It came this week. Amazon’s U.S. workforce topped 500,000 for the first time, up 43% from the year before and more than triple what it was five years ago, the company said Friday. It gained 150,000 workers last year, more than the size of […]

SAN FRANCISCO (VINnews) — Another one bites the dust. Twitter has permanently banished another account off its platform for allegedly violating their terms and conditions. The unfortunate account is the libertarian financial website Zero Hedge. Harassment was the reason given for their sudden dismissal. The permanent suspension came on Friday, after Zero Hedge published an […]

BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank announced plans Sunday to inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($173 billion) into the economy to cushion the shock to financial markets from the outbreak of a new virus when trading resumes on Monday after a prolonged Lunar New Year holiday. The People’s Bank of China announced several measures over the […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Travel restrictions and business closures aimed at stopping the spread of a new virus that has killed 259 people in China could end up causing ripple effects that harm the global economy, experts say. “When you stop planes and ships, trains and and motor vehicles from moving, it starts to shut down […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is temporarily closing its 42 stores in mainland China, one of its largest markets, as a new virus spreads rapidly and the death toll there rose to 259 on Saturday. The iPhone maker said in a statement it was closing stores, corporate offices and contact centers in China until Feb. […]