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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 24, 2018
President Donald Trump’s finance chief, a confidant who has worked for the family’s real estate business since the early 1970s, was granted immunity in the federal probe of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on today.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 23, 2018
Facebook has pulled one of its own products from Apple’s app store because it didn’t want to stop tracking what people were doing on their iPhones.
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- By Star-Advertiser staff
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Aug. 23, 2018
United Airlines announced today that they were canceling all flight in and out of Maui on Friday.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 23, 2018
The Trump administration has laid down rules aimed at preventing residents in high-tax states from avoiding a new cap on widely popular state and local tax deductions.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 23, 2018
Google announced this week that it had disabled dozens of YouTube channels and other accounts linked to a state-run Iranian broadcaster for a political influence campaign.
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- By Star-Advertiser staff
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Aug. 23, 2018
Ala Moana Center, Oahu’s largest open-air shopping mall, along with the isle’s other major malls, are closed today due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Lane.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 22, 2018
New Mexico’s largest electric utility is asking state regulators for approval to join a wholesale trading market that allows participants in several western states to buy and sell energy to better balance supply and demand.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 22, 2018
Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behavior, a far larger discovery than a “sophisticated” effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare.
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- By Dave Segal dsegal@staradvertiser.com
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Aug. 21, 2018
Hawaiian Airlines, which expected great promise from China and spent about a decade trying to get the green light to initiate service, has suspended its only route there after about four years due to low demand.
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- By New York Times
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Aug. 21, 2018
Slack, the 4-year-old workplace messaging company, said today that it had raised $427 million in new funding, just a year after its last huge infusion of money. The latest round values the company at $7.1 billion.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 21, 2018
The Trump administration added to its growing list of sanctions against Russia on today as U.S. lawmakers urged tighter economic restrictions on Moscow and Britain’s top diplomat accused Russia’s leader of pursuing policies that are making the world more dangerous.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 17, 2018
Federal regulators are alleging that Facebook’s advertising tools allow landlords and real estate brokers to engage in housing discrimination.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 17, 2018
The sales and marketing director of Backpage.com pleaded guilty to conspiring to facilitate prostitution in a scheme to give free ads to prostitutes in a bid to draw them away from competitors.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 17, 2018
Greece officially completes its bailout program on Monday, after eight years of cutbacks enforced in return for massive loans and following an economic collapse on the scale of the Great Depression.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 17, 2018
What do you do when your CEO confesses that he’s cracking under the stress of his job?
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- By Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg News
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Aug. 16, 2018
In less than six months, DoorDash Inc.’s valuation has nearly tripled, climbing to $4 billion.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 16, 2018
Google has changed a help page that erroneously described how its “Location History” setting works, clarifying for users that it still tracks their location even if they turn the setting off.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 14, 2018
A Los Angeles hearing provided a window into the state’s emerging cannabis economy, in which early enthusiasm for broad legal sales has been followed by anxiety and frustration across a swath of the industry.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 14, 2018
Sports betting is off and running in New Jersey, with three casinos and two racetracks taking in $40.6 million in wagers in July, the first full month it was legal.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 14, 2018
The founders of the dating app Tinder, along with current executives and some of its employees, filed a lawsuit today against IAC/InterActiveCorp and its Match Group subsidiary for allegedly bilking them by manipulating financial information to create a lowball estimate of Tinder’s value.
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- By Associated Press
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Aug. 14, 2018
Even if “Location History” is off on your phone, Google often still stores your precise location.
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