Business Stories from July 19, 2014 (Change date)
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India mobile-phone companies, supermarkets may soon start banksJul 19, 2014 7:45 am - India proposed allowing mobile telephone companies and supermarket chains to set up payment banks to provide financial products to the tens of millions of people in the ...
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App reviews: RoadTrippers, WatercolorsJul 20, 2014 8:11 am - RoadTrippers: A balm for long car rides Planning a summer road trip? If you're looking to fill in some spots between points A and B, try out RoadTrippers, the compa...
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How trust may be the ultimate bitcoin killerJul 19, 2014 7:40 am - None of Bitcoin's recent troubles - technological glitches and the collapse of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange, MtGox, the departure of key figures from the bitcoin ...
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Google opens lobbying digs on Congress's doorstepJul 19, 2014 3:45 pm - At this week's grand opening party for Google Inc.'s new Washington D.C. offices, South Carolina Representative Mark Sanford stood near trays of peach cobbler milkshakes...
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Should online accounts die when you die?Jul 19, 2014 5:13 pm - WASHINGTON - Should your emails, web albums and other online accounts die when you do? Or should you be able to pass them down to a family member much as you would a hou...
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Bitcoin 'mining pool' promises to stay smallJul 19, 2014 2:04 pm - NEW YORK - The largest group of bitcoin miners, which maintains and processes transactions in the digital currency, is promising to avoid majority control of the currenc...
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Shunned by adults, smartwatches take aim at kidsJul 20, 2014 8:11 am - NEW YORK - With smartwatches drawing lukewarm interest from most consumers, some technology companies are trying a fresh approach: market them to kids. LG Electronics, V...
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Google CEO: Work less, enjoy life moreJul 20, 2014 8:11 am - After a holiday weekend, many people probably were asking why we can't work just four days every week. Google chief executive Larry Page thinks maybe we can. The technol...
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Facebook tests 'buy button' to let people shop on siteJul 20, 2014 8:11 am - Facebook is testing a "Buy" button in its latest effort to help businesses boost their sales through the world's biggest online social network. The company said in a st...
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Ag-gag laws facing federal court challengesJul 20, 2014 8:11 am - DES MOINES, Iowa - The years-long fight between farm organizations and animal rights activists over laws prohibiting secretly filmed documentation of animal abuse is mov...
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