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US stock indexes are mixed a day after worst loss in weeks
U.S. stock indexes are mixed Tuesday, as momentum slows following Wall Street's worst day in a month on worries about rising virus counts and Washington's inability to deliver more aid to the economy. The S&P 500 was up 0.1% in afternoon trading after earlier swinging between small gains and losses. Most of...
Insider Q&A: Google's Annie Jean-Baptiste on inclusion
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — As the head of product inclusion at Google, Annie Jean-Baptiste works to help ensure that the company’s products -- from photos to search to everything else -- are built with everyone in mind, including women, underrepresented minorities, and people of different ages,...
Video app TikTok leans into e-commerce with Shopify deal
The popular short-form video app TikTok, still under U.S. government scrutiny for its Chinese ownership, is moving closer to becoming a marketplace for buying stuff. Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify said Tuesday it's made a deal with TikTok enabling merchants to create “shoppable” video ads that...
Report: Dough company didn't report tampering with screws
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine company that produces pizza dough and is the focus of a tampering investigation received three complaints about screws in the dough that were never reported to the Food and Drug Administration, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Scarborough-based It’ll Be Pizza produced the...
Pfizer tops 3Q earnings views, makes progress on COVID shot
Drugmaker Pfizer, one of the leaders in the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, is tweaking its timeline for when it will know if its experimental two-dose vaccine works. Pfizer executives had expected data from their 44,000-person international study would show by Oct. 31 how well it prevents coronavirus...
University of New Mexico regents choose new school seal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Regents at New Mexico’s largest university have decided on a new design for the school's official seal to replace one that had sparked protests. University of New Mexico officials confirmed Monday that the decision was made during a recent meeting, but it will likely take...
Social media CEOs to face grilling from Republican senators
WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias. Democrats are trying to expand the discussion to include other issues such as the companies' heavy impact...
The Latest: Russian foreign minister Lavrov in quarantine
MOSCOW -- Russia’s foreign minister has self-isolated after contact with a person who has tested positive for coronavirus. The Foreign Ministry says Sergey Lavrov was feeling well but will postpone his official trips and meetings. It didn’t identify the infected person. The announcement follows...
As world goes online in pandemic, another mammoth chip deal
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Advanced Micro Devices is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers and accelerate an already rapid-fire pace of mergers and buyouts in the industry. The deal announced Tuesday puts AMD in a place it wants to be;...
Still hampered by virus, US casinos want aid in recovering
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from the coronavirus outbreak, which cost states more than $2 billion in lost tax revenue while casinos were shut down for four months this year. While 90% of casinos have...
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