There is an increasing roar coming from the hard libertarians, the hard left and the hard right demanding that former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst-turned-cyber-security leaker Edward Snowden be pardoned, but the U.S. political establishment would rather hang him.
The new Pokémon Go Plus is set to be a huge hit by allowing players to catch critters and collect items without ever taking their smartphones out of their pockets.
Tesla Powerpack announced that it is the exclusive winner of the competition to provide Southern California Edison 80 megawatts (MWh) of battery storage at a price of about $100 million.
TechCrunch is reporting that Unilever is negotiating to buy Jessica Alba’s e-commerce start-up The Honest Company as another online offering, like the Dollar Shave Club.
Palo Alto mayor Patrick Burt says: “Palo Alto’s greatest problem right now is the Bay Area’s massive job growth.” And he wants to “meter” businesses to control “reckless job growth” in the Silicon Valley suburb.
Although Facebook claims it is not biased politically, the company labels every user as liberal, moderate or conservative, even if they do not post or comment about politics, the New York Times reports.
Some 6,666 U.S workers could find themselves out of work, thanks to Germany’s Bayer agreeing to buy Monsanto, the American high-tech genetically modified seed and fertilizer company, for $66 billion.
A new report suggests that two-thirds of the 13 presidential election swing states are suffering worse income losses than the national average under President Barack Obama. That, in turn, suggests the 2016 election could become a middle-class revolt.
President Barack Obama’s deputies announced that the median American family’s household income jumped by 5.2 percent in 2015 to $56,516 — but part of the increase is because women are working longer hours. Obama took credit after the Census Bureau
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed $300 million of “feminist” tax breaks on Tuesday, thanks in part to worries about falling stock prices wiping out up to $10 billion of California’s capital gains tax revenue.
On September 12, the major U.S. stock market recovered over half the prior trading day’s $500 billion loss, but overvalued stock prices could be headed down if the bond market is “sniffing” that interest rates are heading up.
Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is attempting to rally Southern California to her cause by noting that the San Francisco Bay Area “controls everything” in California because of voting propensity.
The California Energy Commission released an updated staff report Friday on its proposals drastically to tighten statewide standards adopted last year to cut electrical use by California’s 25 million computers by 50 percent.
U.S. stocks crashed 2.5 percent on Friday, September 9 as Wall Street woke up to the risk of “Two Bumps and a Stumble” — i.e. when it takes two interest rate hikes to generate a market reaction.
With Kickstarter crowdfunding having successfully raised $2.6 billion for 111,772 start-ups, “Sightline Maps” is out to raise $40,000 to build a topographical app for 3D printers.
Janet Napolitano, the chancellor of the state-wide University of California, is dumping American information-technology professionals to hire cheaper H-1B contract workers from India.
With “globalism” under political attack, South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co., one of the world’s largest shipping companies, filed for bankruptcy and stranded $14 billion of holiday stock on the open ocean after container rates tanked by 96 percent.
Apple management hosted a dreary worldwide launch of the iPhone 7, where the company’s managers heaped praise on themselves for having the “courage” to get rid of the earphone jack.
The California Democrat Party believes it will pick up a legislative super-majority that would allow them to raise taxes despite Republican opposition, but they may find themselves blindsided by Trump “stealth voters” who clandestinely support his policies.
While President Barack Obama celebrated Labor Day with his G-20 colleagues in China, black Americans were left to ponder why they are economically worse off than when he first took office.
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t Be Evil,” but after year of using its Washington, D.C. lobbying to trash other tech companies, the “Google Transparency Project,” funded by a secretive cabal of Silicon Valley interests, is producing a steady stream of investigative reporting exposés on Google’s crony capitalism.
The 840-employee Ashley Furniture factory in Colton, California is preparing to shut down over Labor Day weekend — thanks to the state’s new $15 minimum hourly wage — and join the over 9,000 companies that have left California in the last seven years.
The only good news from California’s wildly subsidized Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is that it has reduced its rate of incinerating wild birds from 10 to 2 per hour.
The winner of the U.S. presidential election will be determined by about 17 swing counties, with a total of about 500,000 swing voters between them.
The most glaring economic failure of the Obama administration’s supposed economic recovery is seven consecutive years of microscopic “real” wage growth.
Weak August employment growth of just 151,000 in total non-farm payrolls, along with a 1,000-job downward revision for July, may allow the U.S. Federal Reserve to delay raising interest rates despite inflation concerns.
Just four weeks after the Galaxy Note 7 “phablet” was unveiled to rave reviews, Samsung has suspended sales worldwide and is recalling the first deliveries due to a number of phone batteries that exploded while charging.
After plunging to an all-time-low in June, Twitter’s rise to $19 per share on rumors of a buy-out picked up credibility this week when its co-founder said the wilting social network company must ponder options, such as a buy-out.
Apple Inc. is promising to appeal the European Commission’s decision that it owes $14.5 billion in European taxes because it says the company’s current effective tax rate of 0.00045 percent is “fair.”
An explosion Thursday in Cape Canaveral during a routine static test-fire of the nine Merlin 1D engines that power the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the company’s second catastrophic failure in the last two years, and puts at risk the expected private sector takeover of space flight.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has named Heather Boushey, the radical economist who claims “Fixing feminism means thinking about the economy,” to be chief economist of her presidential transition team.
The Obama administration has picked seven people to serve on a financial control board overseeing the restructuring of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt burden and $43 billion unfunded pension liability. Under congressional legislation signed after the island
The EU anti-trust regulator let Apple off easy with what amounts to a spectacular bargain by ruling that the company only owes $14.5 billion in taxes and interest through the infamous “Double Irish Flip.”
President Barack Obama still intends to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the “lame duck session” after the November election, the New York Times reports, despite opposition from both major party presidential nominees.
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) is about to be America’s first beachfront nuclear dump site, with ratepayers having already funded $4.4 billion to tear down the plant’s 3 nuclear power reactors.
An economic study produced by a top Jerry Brown administration contractor claims that although California’s SB 32 climate change bill will destroy lots of existing jobs, that is fine — because Silicon Valley will receive lots of subsidies.
Democrat Senator Ricardo Lara is leading the charge for the California Teachers Association union in an effort to pass Proposition 58 to revive the failed bilingual education banned by a 1998 English-only initiative.
Although Berkeley, California claims its “soda tax” cut unhealthy purchases by 21 percent, it mostly taxes poor and exempts the high-sugared coffee treats that the upper-class crave.
Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Uber lost $1.2 billion in the first six months of 2016, despite Uber Technologies Inc.’s claims that its U.S. business became profitable this year.
The California Senate voted overwhelmingly — and surprisingly — to extend the state’s landmark AB 32 cap-and-trade law to limit so-called “greenhouse gasses” for another decade to 2030.
