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In Venezuela, the financial hopes of Eliset González are riding on a niche trade.

A popular meteorologist has been absent from local television newscasts since criticizing a corporate weather-alert brand last week, prompting an advertising boycott, social media protests and a complaint from a U.S. senator.

An independent U.N. panel is calling for much greater cooperation to bring digital technology to roughly half the world's people, and a senior Google executive says mobile phones with internet access are being created to sell for about $20 to help make this possible.

Two men have pleaded not guilty in California to federal charges alleging they devised a $25 million scheme to illegally unlocked cellphones so they could be used on any carrier's network.

Private equity firm Apollo Global Management Photo is buying online photo publishing company Shutterfly for $51 per share.

The legal marijuana industry urged Los Angeles City Hall on Monday to get tougher with illegal shops that are gouging their businesses in open sight.

A group of shareholders of from Hudson's Bay Company want to take the Canadian retail company private.

Connecticut's reputation has taken another major blow with the announcement that United Technologies Corp. will be moving its headquarters to Massachusetts as part of its planned merger with Raytheon.

___ US employers hired a record number of people in April WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers hired the most people on record in April, while the number of open jobs was largely unchanged, evidence that the job report remains solid.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Monday after President Donald Trump suspended plans to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Monday: Raytheon Co., up $1.28 to $187.19

There's yet another new streaming service coming in the next year.

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With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd's homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done using just her smartphone?

Prices for iconic luxury cars are dropping significantly, according to a report, which could be because of the expanding market for luxury cars.

President Donald Trump is complaining that President Xi Jinping enjoys a major advantage in the U.S.-China trade war in that he controls China's central bank while Trump must deal with a Federal Reserve that is "very destructive to us." Trump makes clear in an interview with CNBC his frustration with a system that provides political independence for America's central bank — something most economists see as vital to its credibility.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether residents of two Montana communities can continue their decade-long effort to get the Atlantic Richfield Co. to pay for a more thorough cleanup of arsenic left on properties after a century of copper smelting.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. restored power to more than 20,000 customers in Northern California after the company shut it off over the weekend to guard against wildfires amid a heat wave that fueled a blaze still burning in a rural area, officials said Monday.

Gambling regulators in New York have voted to allow sports betting at four upstate casinos.

Greece is on track to hold a national election July 7, three months before schedule, after the country's president accepted a request by left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to dissolve parliament.