TechCrunch Facebook now flags and down-ranks fake news with help from outside fact checkersTechCrunchSnopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, ABC News, and AP will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth.” It will make fake news posts less visible, append …Did Facebook […]
Reuters US states sue Mylan, Teva, others for fixing drug pricesReutersA person holds pharmaceutical tablets and capsules in this picture illustration taken in Ljubljana September 18, 2013. Picture taken September 18. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic. By Diane Bartz and Sarah N. Lynch | WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON Two years …20 States sue generic drug firms over pricesThe Boston GlobeMass. joins […]
Nasdaq U.S. Solar Boom Continues: 1MW Installed Every 32 MinutesNasdaqRenewable energy policy faces a future of uncertainty with a new fossil fuel-friendly administration set to take office, but the U.S. solar industry just marked its best quarter to date. In the third quarter, the U.S. saw 4,143 megawatts of new solar … and more » Subscribe […]
New York Times Under Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Forged Its Own Path AbroadNew York TimesPresident Vladimir V. Putin of Russia presented Rex W. Tillerson, Exxon Mobil's chief executive, with a medal in 2012 in St. Petersburg. Credit Pool photo by Mikhail Klimentyev. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Struggling to keep Iraq from splintering, American …How Rex Tillerson, […]
TIME Detroit Voting Machine Failures Were Widespread on Election DayTIMEMore than 80 voting machines in Detroit malfunctioned on Election Day, officials say, resulting in ballot discrepancies in 59% of precincts that raise questions about the reliability of future election results in a city dominated by Democratic and …Michigan to audit 'significant' mismatches in Detroit voteHouston […]
Wall Street Journal Investor Peter Thiel Is Helping Mold Tech's Ties to Donald TrumpWall Street JournalPeter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and conservative libertarian, has long been a misfit in Silicon Valley. Now as one of the tech industry's main bridges to President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, Mr. Thiel is playing a …Silicon Valley CEOs […]
Wall Street Journal US Regulators Sanction Wells Fargo, Declaring 'Living Will' DeficienciesWall Street JournalWASHINGTON—U.S. regulators slapped embattled Wells Fargo & Co. with new sanctions Tuesday, concluding the bank had failed to devise an adequate blueprint for avoiding a taxpayer bailout if it were on the brink of bankruptcy. The rebuke over the bank's …Wells Fargo Faces […]
New York Magazine Roger Ailes Is Dumping His Treasured Upstate NewspaperNew York MagazineRoger Ailes has given up the last piece of his media empire. The disgraced former Fox News chief and his wife Elizabeth have sold the Putnam County News and Recorder, the local newspaper Ailes bought in 2008 in Cold Spring, New York, not […]
Huffington Post This GOP-Backed Law Forbids Donald Trump From Using Presidency For Personal ProfitHuffington PostPresident-elect Donald Trump's business empire represents an unprecedented source of conflicts of interest between his presidential duties and the hundreds of private companies he controls, which he has said he will not sell and will leave to his sons …Trump 'Princelings' […]
Bloomberg IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump MeetingBloombergServers and hard drives stand inside pod one of International Business Machines Corp.'s Softlayer data center in Dallas, Texas. Photographer: Ben Torres/Bloomberg. IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty said she plans to hire about 25,000 people in …IBM announces plan to hire 25K […]