Facebook to add 3,000 workers to monitor live video, other posts

Facebook plans to add 3,000 people over the next year to monitor reports of inappropriate material on the social media network such as videos of murders and suicides, chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. Zuckerberg, the company’s...

US services sector growth picks up pace in April, ISM report shows

The Institute of Supply Management’s non-manufacturing index, which tracks the U.S. economy’s service sector, hit 57.5 for the month of April, coming out on top of expectations. The index grew for the 88th consecutive period, data revealed on Wednesday....

Uber is in court today facing a possible shutdown of its self-driving program

Uber Technologies Inc goes before a U.S. judge on Wednesday to fight for the right to continue work on its self-driving car program, the latest phase in a courtroom battle over trade secrets that threatens to topple a central pillar of Uber’s growth strategy....

Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. is betting on this ‘Comic-Con biz’ that’s raking in millions

“They’ve hit the sweet spot for collectors,” says Marty Brochstein, senior vice president of the International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association. “Their customers are passionate and want to be the first of their friends to...

One man is stoking fear over Iran’s presidential election — and its nuclear deal

The likely successor to Iran’s supreme leader has entered the country’s presidential election, and that’s throwing a lot into question. Many still expect the relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani to win another term when Iranians go to the...