Ford Motor Company announced Wednesday it was recalling over 1.3 million vehicles over safety concerns. The models affected are Fusion, Lincoln MKZ and Focus, and most of the recalled vehicles were sold in the United States. The Dearborn, Michigan, company said it was “issuing a safety recall in North America for approximately 1.3 million 2014-18 […]

NEW DELHI: Tech giant Google has announced that as per its upcoming Financial services policy, it will prohibit advertisements promoting any kind of cryptocurrencies. The company in an official note stated that the new policy will contain measures to restrict the advertisement of Contracts for Difference, rolling spot foreign exchange (ForEx) and financial spread betting. […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Governments and central banks need to collaborate on developing regulations for crypto-assets to prevent them from becoming a new vehicle for money laundering and terrorist financing, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday. In a blog posting ahead of a meeting of Group of 20 finance leaders next week, […]

WASHINGTON — Green Berets working with government forces in Niger killed 11 Islamic State militants in a firefight in December, the American military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday. The battle occurred two months after four United States soldiers died in an ambush in another part of Niger — and after senior commanders had […]

Amazon failed to disrupt the OTA market back in 2015. Is it time to try again? Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) could eventually challenge Booking (NASDAQ:BKNG) and Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) in the online travel market according to Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak. In a note to investors, Nowak claimed that Amazon’s “focus on selection/service, pricing, and frictionless payment that drive […]

With the release of the iPhone X last year, Apple in one fell swoop completely transformed the iOS user experience. In addition to a number of new iOS gestures, Apple with the iPhone X implemented a facial recognition scheme and completely did away with the home button, a mainstay of the iPhone user experience since […]

On Monday, NASA announced a category G1 geomagnetic storm would hit earth sometime between March 14 and 15. While the idea of a massive solar storm hurtling toward Earth at thousands of miles per second sounds scary, there’s really no need to worry. In fact, all you need to be concerned about is if you’ll be in […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) has sold its equity holding in Blackstone Group LP (BX.N), the U.S. private equity firm said in a filing, ending an 11-year investment. The original agreement with Beijing Wonderful Investments – the legal entity set up by CIC to invest in Blackstone – […]

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will set out how she aims to retaliate against Russia over the nerve agent attack on a former spy and his daughter, deepening tensions between Vladimir Putin and the West. May will meet with her national security and intelligence chiefs Wednesday to assess whether Russia has given a credible answer […]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A day after the United Nations Security Council demanded a ceasefire across Syria in February, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley – angry that Russia delayed the vote for several days and skeptical the Syrian government would comply – spoke with President Donald Trump. “There’s a lot of decisions to be made now,” […]