Business & Economy

A flat-rate COLA proposal could close 50% of Social Security's 75-year fiscal shortfall, but the cost of waiting since 1987 has been enormous.

Lira, Uganda | Agro input dealers across the Lango Sub-region have resolved to intensify the fight against counterfeit agricultural inputs by working closely with the Uganda Police Force to arrest…

A South Korean court ordered SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his former wife more than $640 million in the country’s largest divorce asset award.

Elon Musk's most loyal acolytes are licking their wounds as SpaceX stock continues to hit new all-time lows.

Kaberamaido, Uganda | The Assistant Resident District Commissioner (ARDC) for Kaberamaido District, Peter Arikos, has urged farmers to embrace modern agricultural technologies and adopt a business mindset to increase productivity,…

There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter.

Airports are opting in to the TSA's new private screening program. Here's what that will mean for air travel.

Stocks stabilized on Friday but were on track for weekly losses as investors assessed a new set of global tariffs against a backdrop of AI jitters, rising oi...

Elon Musk told The Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes that journalists are more despised than him after she said people loathe the trillionaire's influence.

Magnificent Seven stocks lost $787 billion in a single day as Alphabet and Tesla earnings revealed massive AI infrastructure capex that spooked investors.

Federal investigators continue to search for the sources amid the largest number of reported cyclosporiasis cases in US history.

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

Trump on Truth Social railed against the European Union's new fine on Google and prior penalties against U.S. tech giants Apple, Meta and Amazon.

Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, said at a recent conference in New York that artificial intelligence models are becoming so advanced that engineers don't always know all the capabilities they have.

The bearish Tesla set-up we flagged ahead of Wednesday's report has delivered most of what it can.

256 Mall, a digital marketplace developed by 256 AI System, is connecting Ugandan farmers directly to buyers across all 146 districts, cutting out middlemen and expanding market access. The platform allows online sales of produce and livestock, supports MTN MoMo and Airtel Money payments, and aims to boost farmers' incomes while reducing post-harvest losses and driving Uganda's digital economy.

Across Kampala, planned power cuts have become an unwelcome part of daily life, disrupting businesses, households and hospitals. Electricity officials say the frustration is temporary, arguing the outages are the price of rebuilding a power network that has struggled to keep pace with one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities. The Greater Kampala Metropolitan Transmission System Improvement […] The post UETCL, UEDCL pro

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

Busoga High School has a new way to get its students to and from campus: a 67-seater Isuzu bus fitted with onboard cameras, handed over by Equity Bank Uganda this week as road accidents involving school children continue to rattle the country. The bus, financed through the bank’s asset financing arm, arrives as the ministry […] The post Equity Bank gives Busoga High School a new bus, with cameras onboard appeared fir

The claims window is closing for some consumers who say they were enrolled in Amazon Prime unintentionally or struggled to cancel the subscription

Micron Technology, Inc. stays Hold as AI memory demand surges. Explore Kimi K3’s impact, MU valuation upside, and key risks like capex cuts and pricing. Click for this MU update.

The cyclospora outbreak has people avoiding salads and burrito bowls. Now, for many Americans the question is whether any lettuce can be trusted.

Stocks rise as oil prices fall but Intel shares are declining even as the chip maker’s earnings beat analysts’ expectations.