Coca-Cola has announced a surprise move to buy Costa Coffee, one of Europe's largest cafe chains, from current owners Whitbread for £3.9 billion ($5.1 billion) in a move likely to send shockwaves through the coffee industry. Whitbread, which also owns budget UK hotel chain Premier Inn, said that its board had unanimously approved the deal,…
Wayne Dailey sat in a waiting area at a Houston hospital, anxious for word about his wife. He and his sister stared at the television to distract themselves. It was Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, and broadcasters described a large storm moving off the Yucatán Peninsula with Texas in its sights, potentially bringing historic flooding to…
In a major nod to privacy, new versions of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser will, by default, block third-party companies from tracking the online behavior of users, Mozilla said Thursday. Although many popular web browsers like Google (goog) Chrome and Microsoft’s (msft) Internet Explorer include options for limiting the amount of data companies can collect, users…
US President Donald Trump. Getty Google is fighting back. After Donald Trump widened his line of attack on the search engine giant, Google swiftly debunked the US president's tweet in a methodical statement. Using the hashtag "#StopTheBias," Trump posted a video claiming to show how Google has promoted Barack Obama's State of the Union speeches,…
The loss of Mr. McGahn will further whittle down the list of people in the West Wing who are willing to say no to Mr. Trump. Within the White House, Mr. McGahn was seen as the protector of presidential institutions and as a guardrail who was willing to tell the president when he should not…
Rotten Tomatoes, the popular entertainment reviews aggregation platform, announced changes to its “Tomatometer” rating system—the percentage score of how many critics liked a film or television show. The website on Tuesday said criteria for determining whether or not a critic can influence the Tomatometer will now emphasize individual merit and body of work, rather than…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A group of 14 human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and PEN International, have written an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding he reverse plans to launch a censored search engine in China. News broke in early August that Google was planning to…
WASHINGTON — Canada’s foreign minister cut short a trip to Europe and rushed to Washington on Tuesday as President Trump’s top trade advisers reiterated that the United States is prepared to leave Canada out of a revised North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico. Touting the agreement with Mexico as a major win, Trump administration…
The Chinese government has withheld samples of a virulent strain of avian flu from American researchers for over a year, the New York Times reports. And this strain of flu prevalent in birds, called H7N9, is particularly fatal, killing 40% of people who contract it. However, so far, it hasn’t spread readily from fowl to…
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) will invest $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business. Toyota, one of the world’s largest carmakers, and Uber [UBER.UL], the leading ride-hailing…
