Monthly Archive: April 2018

The deposit in deep sea mud almost 6,000 metres down could be a game changer

Elon Musk, Uber, BlackBerry, James Bond: They’re all taking automotive innovation a little further down the road

Chicago played host to a record-setting number of visitors during the first three months of this year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office says there were 2.33 million occupied hotel rooms for the first quarter of 2018. That number represents an increase of more than 10 per cent over the same period last year. It also follows […]

MOSCOW — A Russian court on Friday ordered the blocking of a popular messaging app, Telegram, after it rejected to share its encryption data with authorities. The Moscow court on Friday ruled in favour of the Russian communications watchdog, which had demanded that Telegram be blocked in Russia until it hands over the keys to […]

A handful of top business stories we’re tracking at Financial Post

FRANKFURT — German automaker Volkswagen is creating a new management structure it says will enable faster decision-making as autonomous and electric cars transform the industry. The Wolfsburg-based automaker is to release on Friday details about plans to reorganize its management into six broad business areas plus China. It announced Thursday CEO Matthias Mueller was being […]

LIMA, Peru — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will aim to advance Canada’s position on the North American free trade talks when he meets with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence here over the next two days. There had been hopes leading up to Trudeau’s visit to Peru, where he and the […]

HELENA, Mont. — An online pharmacy that bills itself as Canada’s largest is expected to be fined $34 million Friday for importing counterfeit cancer drugs and other unapproved pharmaceuticals into the United States, a sentence that one advocacy group called too light for such a heinous crime. Canada Drugs has filled millions of prescriptions by […]

TOKYO — Japan and New Zealand reacted cautiously Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump signalled he might reopen talks on a Pacific Rim trade deal that he pulled the U.S. out of shortly after taking office. Japanese officials said they welcome the move if it means that Trump is recognizing the importance of the Trans-Pacific […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Is the world ready for cows armed with artificial intelligence? No time to ruminate on that because the moment has arrived, thanks to a Dutch company that has married two technologies — motion sensors and AI — with the aim of bringing the barnyard into the 21st century. The company, Connecterra, has […]