By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Switzerland’s new attorney general is pushing parliament to give his office more tools to fight white-collar crime. The country’s maximum financial penalty on corporations for wrongdoing is just 5 million Swiss francs ($5 million), and that’s “ridiculous,” Stefan Blaettler said Friday in an interview on the…
Happy Friday, everyone! Although it was a typical short Thursday slate — most of which we wrapped up prior to the start of the NFL Draft — there was a lot of great baseball action from Thursday. We had starters get back on track and other stud pitchers continue to deliver stud performances. The early-season…
By Munsif Vengattil and Akash Sriram BENGALURU (Reuters) – India will provide support for companies looking to invest in semiconductor manufacturing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, as the South Asian nation sets its sights on becoming a key player in the global supply chain for chips. Even as more firms and countries seek…
By LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Aidan Hutchinson surprised his mother with a gift on draft day before the Detroit Lions made his wish come true. The Lions grabbed the talented Michigan defensive end with the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft Thursday night, barely using its allotted five…
Business travel is making a comeback and could constrain already tight supplies of rental cars when it finally recovers, Hertz chief executive Stephen Scherr told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday. “Corporate business is trending upwards, make no mistake about it. I’m confident that that starts to come back, and I think the in-bound visitor from…
(Refiles to fix typo in headline) PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Panama’s National Assembly on Thursday approved a bill to regulate the use and commercialization of crypto assets in the Central American country. The bill opens the door to private and public use of such assets, and will also make it possible for people…
G/O Media, which operates online properties such as Deadspin, Gizmodo and Jezebel, is acquiring online business news site Quartz, marking another move in the consolidating digital-media landscape. Representatives from G/O Media and Quartz declined to disclose the deal price. Zach Seward, the chief executive at Quartz, will stay at the company as its editor in…
Series wins for Warriors and Bucks in the NBA Playoffs, the 2022 NFL Draft gets underway, and it’s all over for Vegas as the Dallas Stars take NHL wild card. Building on the award-winning journalism of The Sporting News, you’ll get all you need to know in one handy, bite-sized podcast hosted by Demetria Obilor….
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Amazon’s Prime Video launched a movie rental service in India on Thursday, promising to release more than forty original series and movies over the next two years in a key market. The world’s second-most populous nation with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, India is a valuable market for Amazon and its…
Introduced about two years ago during the mass rise in popularity of short-format videos, Shorts was meant as a way for YouTube to compete with TikTok and Instagram’s Reels. However, not being able to generate revenue, Shorts videos only served as smaller content pieces for creators to attract audiences to their channels and larger videos….
