BATON ROUGE – Baton Rouge and New Orleans business community leaders have been working to secure a nonstop British Airways flight to service New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport and London’s Heathrow Airport, but there has been a delay. …
LA HABANA (AP) — Cuba's state telecommunications company and U.S. firm Sprint have signed an agreement for cellphone roaming service, the first direct deal of its kind between phone companies in both countries. The agreement was announced Monday at…
LAPLACE, LA – Today, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Denka Performance Elastomer LLC President and CEO Koki Tabuchi announced the creation of a new corporate headquarters at the company’s LaPlace site, where Denka has acquired the Neoprene synthetic rubber business of…
NEW YORK (AP) — Payment processing giant Visa announced plans Monday to buy its sister company, Visa Europe, in a deal that could be worth more than $23 billion and would consolidate all of Visa's operations worldwide. The deal…
PARIS (AP) — It's official: Ham, hot dogs and other processed meats can lead to colon, stomach and other cancers — and red meat is probably cancer-causing, too. While doctors in rich countries have long warned against eating too…
NEW ORLEANS – To help customers connect with family and friends in Mexico following the landfall of Hurricane Patricia, Verizon is activating a multi-pronged effort: • Wireless customers will incur no charges for texts or international long distance calls originating…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans-based Smoothie King is continuing to expand, this time into Vietnam. The New Orleans Advocate reports the privately-held company announced Tuesday that the latest expansion will happen through a partnership with Shinsegae Group, which…
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 6.5 million vehicles worldwide for a defective power window switch that can overheat, melt and lead to fires. One injury in the U.S., a person who suffered a burn on the…
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A rental company in Orlando, Florida, is offering "halal vacation homes" with curtained pool decks and rooms with prayer mats and copies of the Quran. A British company's app lists gourmet restaurants serving…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Monday that China's currency remains undervalued in relation to the U.S. dollar but it did not cite the country for unfairly manipulating its currency to gain trade advantages. In a new Treasury…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its newly minted cyberagreement with the United States, according to a newly published…
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The chief executives of 10 of the world's biggest oil and gas companies have pledged support for an "effective" deal to fight global warming at a Paris conference next month. In a statement Friday, the CEOs…
BETHLEHEM, PA (AP) — Christmas won't come early this year, but the gifts might. Just in time for the winter holiday shopping season, Amazon, Wal-Mart, Macy's and other retailers are working behind the scenes to make sure they can…
NEW YORK (AP) — Google is not violating copyright laws by digitizing books for a massive online library, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a decade-long dispute by authors worried that the project would spoil the market for their…
ATLANTA (AP) — UPS is raising ground, air and freight rates by averages of around 5 percent as it seeks to boost revenue that has stagnated this year. The Atlanta-based package delivery company said Thursday that on Oct. 26…
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are getting new credit and debit cards with more secure chip technology, and that's already leading to headaches for companies that rely on working cards to charge their customers every month. Video…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is trying to phase out passwords with an update to its mobile application for its email service. The renovated app released Thursday for iPhones and Android devices will include an option called "Account Key"…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After more than 20 years in New Orleans, the Essence Festival is now going global. The festival has launched a three-year partnership with eThekwini Municipality to host the Essence Festival in Durban, South Africa, in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines have ramped up an aggressive lobbying campaign that seeks nothing less than converting the government from industry regulator to business ally. The big three legacy carriers — Delta, American and United — want the…
BEIJING (AP) — China has passed the United States in the number of billionaires, driven by the rise of fortunes in technology and manufacturing, according to a survey released Thursday. Despite a cooling economy, the number of Chinese billionaires…
NEW YORK (AP) — If Martha Stewart had her way, Kmart could have been KMartha. The home goods mogul said she regrets not buying Kmart before a deal with the discount chain went sour. "We thought about buying…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disappearing messaging platform Snapchat is winding down its own channel for original content called Snap Channel, with layoffs potentially affecting about a dozen people, although they could be rehired in other roles. The Los Angeles-based…
