Business News

  • NEW YORK (AP) — Google is launching a campaign to help fight Ebola by contributing $2 for every dollar people donate to a slew of nonprofits such as Save the Children and the Doctors Without…

    November 11, 2014
  • FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Smartphone case maker OtterBox is replacing its CEO following the global expansion of the Fort Collins, Colorado-based company. OtterBox announced the departure of CEO Brian Thomas on Friday as well…

    November 11, 2014
  • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday embraced a radical change in how the government treats Internet service, coming down on the side of consumer activists who fear slower download…

    November 11, 2014
  • NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is buying Mexican wireless company Iusacell for $1.8 billion and plans to grow in Mexico. The Dallas company said Friday that Iusacell has 8.6 million subscribers under the Iusacell and…

    November 11, 2014
  • BERLIN (AP) — YouTube has amended a form used to resolve copyright disputes after the operators of a German web channel received death threats. The threats by alleged Islamic extremists came after Al Hayat TV,…

    November 10, 2014
  • BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is offering free upgraded versions of its Office software for iPhones and iPads, as the software giant further embraces the so-called “freemium” strategy favored by…

    November 10, 2014
  • LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government on Thursday announced its first bitcoin securities fraud case, accusing a Texas man of engineering a Ponzi scheme by getting people to turn over…

    November 07, 2014
  • TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer Palo Alto Networks has discovered a new form of malware that may have affected hundreds of thousands of Apple mobile device users, largely in China. The cybersecurity provider has named…

    November 06, 2014
  • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly everyone agrees that texting and driving is dangerous. Many people do it anyway. In an AT&T-sponsored survey of frequent drivers who text daily — regardless…

    November 06, 2014
  • YOUKYUNG LEE AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As Samsung’s smartphone business suffers a dizzying decline, another issue is vexing investors. Command of one of the world’s most valuable consumer brands will eventually…

    November 06, 2014
  • NEW YORK (AP) — Wireless carrier Sprint says it is eliminating 2,000 jobs, or about 5 percent of its staff, as part of an effort to cut $1.5 billion in annual spending. The company said…

    November 05, 2014
  • NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Nov. 1 about technology moguls in the commercial space business, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Elon Musk’s SpaceX operates three spacecraft: Dragon, Falcon Heavy and Falcon 8.…

    November 05, 2014
  • MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook’s declaration that he’s “proud to be gay” wasn’t exactly news in Silicon Valley, where his sexual orientation was no secret. But advocates…

    November 03, 2014
  • MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A mobile payment service backed by Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other leading retailers is defending its practice of prohibiting its members from accepting alternatives such as…

    November 01, 2014
  • BROCK VERGAKIS Associated Press CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. (AP) — Crews searched for scorched wreckage along the Virginia coast Wednesday in hopes of figuring out why an unmanned commercial rocket exploded in a blow to NASA’s strategy…

    November 01, 2014