Business

Google hit with record $5 billion EU antitrust fine

July 18, 2018

EU regulators hit Google with a record $5 billion antitrust fine on Wednesday for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.

Business

When corporations take credit for green deeds their lobbying may tell another story

The Conversation

July 17, 2018

This kind of corporate hypocrisy — what we call talking green while lobbying brown — is a form of greenwashing, in which companies trumpet their good deeds while hiding their efforts to block progress.

Japan, EU sign free trade pact amid worries about Trump

Reuters

July 17, 2018

Japan and the European Union signed a wide-ranging free trade deal on Tuesday that both sides hope will act as a counterweight to the protectionist forces unleashed by US President Donald Trump.

Trump says May's Brexit plan kills hope of a US trade deal

Reuters

July 13, 2018

President Donald Trump directly criticized Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy, saying it had probably killed off hope of a US-British trade deal and that she had failed to take his advice on how to negotiate with the European Union.

Women & Girls

Brazil’s domestic workers get help with app

GlobalPost

July 12, 2018

Brazil’s household workers have been fighting for their rights for more than a century. Technology might revolutionize their fight.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Philadelphia ice cream is a luxury in China ... with a scoop of import tax

PRI's The World

July 11, 2018

What's it like to deal with a tariff? Ask a Philadelphia ice cream maker who exports to China.

Jobs

The feast-or-famine life of lobstering in Maine

Living on Earth

July 08, 2018

The lobster industry has always been an up-and-down business, but a new book looks into how global warming is adding to that already uncertain rollercoaster.

Business, Economics and Jobs

China looks to expand ties with European trade partners as clash with US ramps up

Reuters

July 07, 2018

China remains open for trade with foreign partners and can only benefit from an economically strong Europe, its premier said on Saturday as he pressed for expanded ties with the continent's eastern wing while waging a tariff war with Washington.

Decline of Mexico's oil industry transforms Paraíso into 'hell'

Reuters

June 28, 2018

The extent of the problems has caught locals, industry executives and government officials off guard, especially as criminals increasingly exploit what's left of any prosperity by targeting Pemex resources, equipment and employees.

50 States

America’s leading coal state looks to the wind

PRI's The World

June 26, 2018

Wyoming is a coal state. But it’s becoming a wind state, too.