by Minghe Hu | Jul 12, 2018 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – California’s new law providing consumers with more protections againt data collected by Internet and other companies highlights the need for better federal data privacy laws, a senior Democratic lawmaker and several experts say. Current federal laws...
by Xin Liu | Jul 12, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — A senate committee is considering a proposal to give the FTC more authority to supervise credit bureaus and impose harsher civil penalties from those that don’t follow standard credit reporting procedures and report wrongful data. A Federal Trade...
by Charlene Zhang | Jul 12, 2018 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that the current four-year college system leads to “mountains of debt” and not enough of the technical skills needed in today’s workforce. Speaking at the Economic Club, Ryan also reproved the Trump...
by Brian Baker | Jul 12, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s new tariffs are not the answer to global trade issues and risk America’s leadership role in global trade. “New tariffs are not the solution,” Ryan said during a speech to the...
by Jinman Li | Jul 6, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – A bill awaiting final congressional approval would beef up a Treasury program’s ability to review foreign investments for national security threats, especially related to intellectual property – a measure that experts say is largely aimed at China. The...
by Xinyi(Ethel) Jiang | Jun 15, 2018 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – The AT&T-Time Warner merger and Comcast’s bid for Fox are exciting match-ups of technology and entertainment companies for some media experts while others worry that the results will be bad for consumers. AT&T Inc. completed the $85 billion...