by Charbel Lebbos | Nov 30, 2022 | business, Technology
A key measure of China’s factory activity has further fallen in November, according to official figures. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 48 from 49.2 in October. It comes as strict Covid restrictions and weakening global demand weigh on the...
by Charbel Lebbos | Nov 30, 2022 | business
Twitter says it has stopped enforcing its policy on misleading information about coronavirus. According to the company’s website, it stopped taking action against tweets breaching its Covid rules, on Wednesday, 23 November. Twitter had previously reported...
by Charbel Lebbos | Nov 30, 2022 | business
Ohioans paid record prices for gas for a Thanksgiving holiday this year, but drivers could see a much different situation by the time Christmas arrives. Decreasing demand and the falling price of oil are causing a decline in gas prices in Ohio and across the nation,...
by Charbel Lebbos | Nov 24, 2022 | business, Local News
Some 100 small businesses in Akron will receive one-time, $10,000 grants to help offset costs and negative impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city announced Wednesday. Funding for the grants is provided by American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars the city...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 26, 2022 | business, Technology, World News
The messaging platform WhatsApp has come back online after an outage that affected users around the world. Meta, which owns WhatsApp, said the problem had been fixed but did not give a reason for the disruption. People trying to send and receive messages on WhatsApp,...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 26, 2022 | business, Technology
Sales at the tech giants Alphabet and Microsoft have slowed sharply, adding to fears of a downturn in the economy. Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, said sales rose just 6% in the three months to September, to $69bn, as firms cut their advertising budgets. It...
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