by Xiaolan Tang | Jul 28, 2015 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — There are at least 3 billion apps out there, but small business owners aren’t taking advantage of them to increase sales –because they don’t know what’s available or don’t know how to use them, experts say. “There is a huge opportunity gap in increasing...
by Jin Wu & Siyuan Du | Jul 23, 2015 | Business & Tech, Health
WASHINGTON – You see a guy next to you in the grocery store grabbing ground beef, brown rice, green beans and carrots, which all are great stuff for a healthy dinner. But he won’t be eating it; it’s for his dog. Pets have long been considered members of their owners’...
by Lucy Ren | Jul 22, 2015 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
As financial technology companies expand their trading services to retail investors, experts are unsettled over what the democratization of these technologies means for the average investor. Financial technology firms, collectively known as “fintech,” are swiftly...
by Mallory Hughes | Jul 16, 2015 | Business & Tech, Politics
WASHINGTON — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that his city’s recent decision to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next five years will lift 600,000 LA-area earners out of poverty. “In my city, where one out of four people live in...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 16, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON— U.S. The nation’s security and environmental safety are at risk because of vulnerabilities in existing pipelines, railways and other infrastructure that could cost at least $13 billion to fix, a top Energy Department official said Tuesday. Melanie...
by Lucy Ren | Jul 15, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON–A bureaucratic delay in carrying out a rule requiring U.S.-listed companies to disclose payments to foreign governments for getting access to oil, gas and minerals has contributed to corruption in those countries and harm to investors at home, says a...
