A few days after Amazon’s cloud services company AWS had an outage that plunged millions of popular websites and apps into the dark, questions still linger about why some companies get so big in the first place — and why it’s so hard to keep them from controlling markets.
President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board has dismissed an argument from the Canada Post workers union that a government back-to-work order was unconstitutional.
By the time many fans made it to the front of the queue, they say only high-priced resale tickets were available on sites like Ticketmaster. Experts say creating legislation to make ticket buying more fair could help, but it’s no easy task.
A deal with the Trump administration for tariff relief on Canadian steel and aluminum exports is likely to happen soon, says a former top Canadian trade negotiator.
The federal government gave Stellantis close to $105 million to retool two Ontario plants and is now reviewing the contract to see if the automaker violated the deal by announcing it’s moving some Canadian production to the U.S.
After investigating a complaint from a B.C. customer that their Amazon order never arrived, Consumer Protection B.C. has ordered the e-commerce giant to pay close to $20,000 in fines, legal fees and a $511.25 refund to the customer.
Ticketmaster, the world’s largest online box office, is promising for the first time to crack down on industrial-scale scalpers to bar them from using hundreds — sometimes thousands — of fake Ticketmaster accounts to buy up and resell tickets for concerts, theatre and sporting events.
A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped with a fine of almost $177 million — the largest-ever penalty by Canada’s financial intelligence agency — for infractions including failing to flag more than 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity.
OpenAI said Tuesday it is introducing its own web browser, Atlas, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions.