China-based ByteDance Ltd. made clear it won’t comply with a new US law requiring it to sell its popular TikTok video-sharing app, setting up what likely will be a prolonged court battle pitting free-speech rights against national-security interests that could …
U.S.-Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz said on Tuesday it raised $1 billion in a private funding round that values the four-year old company at $12 billion. Wiz, which has raised $1.9 billion since its founding in 2020, said the funds …
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa …
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to …
Full repairs to three submarine internet cables damaged in the Red Sea in February are being held up by disputes over who controls access to infrastructure in Yemeni waters. The Yemeni government has granted permits for the repair of two …
April was the Earth’s 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, with warmer weather already sweeping across Asia and a hotter-than-usual summer expected in Europe. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said last month’s temperatures globally were 1.58C (2.8F) above …
Typhoon activity in the Northwest Pacific region is expected to be about 20% below normal this year, forecaster Tropical Storm Risk said in its first outlook of the season. The London-based group said it expects 15 typhoons, seven of which …
Saudi Arabian fintech firm Rasan intends to sell a 30% stake in its Riyadh initial public offering, making it one of the first companies from the sector to go public in the kingdom. Rasan and its investors will offer 22.7 …
Marty Malinow’s mom never could get her head around what her son did for a living. To friends, she said he was “a stockbroker that does something with the weather.” Malinow couldn’t really object — he knew most people had …
Insurance broker Marsh announced the launch of MiCAssure, a proprietary insurance solution for crypto-asset service providers such as custodians, exchanges, and administrators operating within the European Union (EU), which are required to comply with the forthcoming Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation …