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Nielsen, Amazon Prime spar over who really watches football
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - By the Nielsen company's count, 7.8 million people watched Amazon Prime's coverage of last Thursday's NFL game between New Orleans and Arizona. But Amazo...
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Asian shares mostly higher, tracking Wall Street advance
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - BANGKOK (AP) - Shares advanced Tuesday in Asia after Wall Street shook off an early bout of unsettled trading and ended higher. U.S. futures edged 0.1% higher and oil pr...
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Naomi Alderman novel 'The Future' scheduled for next fall
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Novelist Naomi Alderman is a 'œwhat if'ť kind of writer, as in: What if women were able to release electricity through their fingers, the premise of her ...
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Google's ad sales slow dramatically, eroding parent's profit
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Summertime revenue growth at Google's corporate parent slipped to its slowest pace since the pandemic jarred the economy more than two years ago, wi...
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Mexico leader: open domestic flights to foreign airlines
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday he wants to allow foreign airlines to operate domestic service between Mexican cities, to...
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Visa posts jump in quarterly profit, increases dividend
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Visa Inc. said its fiscal fourth quarter profits rose by an adjusted 16% from a year earlier, helped once again by higher usage of its global namesake pa...
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Fast-fashion giant Inditex to transfer its Russian business
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - MADRID (AP) - Zara owner Inditex has reached an agreement to sell its Russian business to a Lebanese retail and real estate conglomerate, the Spanish fashion giant said ...
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Western states propose deal over beleaguered Rio Grande
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico, Texas and Colorado have negotiated a proposed settlement that they say will end a yearslong battle over management of one of the lon...
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Record number of Americans have bank accounts, gov't says
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The number of Americans who do not have a bank account fell to a record low last year, as the proliferation of online-only banks and an improving economy...
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Qatar's residents squeezed as World Cup rental demand soars
Oct 25, 2022 7:00 am - DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Where to sleep? It's among the biggest questions facing fans traveling to tiny Qatar for the World Cup amid a feverish rush for rooms in Doha. Some wi...