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Black Friday shoppers set record for online sales thanks to COVID-19 pandemic

Nov 28, 2020 5:25 pm

Shoppers set a new record for spending on Black Friday, only this year, it was online. Nervous about the coronavirus, Black Friday shoppers avoided the stores and took to their keyboards on what is no...

Holland-made Tecate beer masquerading as Mexican, lawsuit claims

Nov 27, 2020 9:47 pm

A New York man says he and other consumers have been duped into believing that Tecate beer is Mexican when it’s actually made by Dutch company Heineken in Holland, new court papers show. Mig...

Small Business Saturday more important than ever amid COVID-19

Nov 27, 2020 9:19 pm

Steve Bulger, Regional Administrator of the Small Business Association urged holiday shoppers who are under quarantine or scared off by social distancing measures to find other ways to support small b...

Facebook mistakenly bans some small businesses ads

Nov 27, 2020 7:49 pm

Facebook has mistakenly blocked the advertising of some small businesses as it relies more heavily on artificial intelligence to police its platform, according to a report. Bloomberg reported Friday t...

Wall Street gains, Nasdaq hits record high as holiday shopping begins

Nov 27, 2020 7:35 pm

Wall Street stocks advanced, with the Nasdaq closing at a record high, on Friday in a holiday-shortened week as retailers kicked off the year-end shopping season amid record COVID-19 hospitalizations....

NY authorities fine ?Walmart of liquor? over out-of-state gift cards

Nov 27, 2020 6:36 pm

Big-box liquor store chain Total Wine & More got slapped with a $22,500 fine for distributing gift cards in Florida that were redeemable in New York. New York Fine Wines & Spirits — ...

Apple manufacturer Foxconn reportedly to make iPads, MacBooks in Vietnam

Nov 27, 2020 6:13 pm

Apple will soon begin manufacturing iPads outside of China for the first time ever as it looks to avoid getting caught in the middle of a trade war. The iPhone maker has asked manufacturer Foxconn to ...

Topshop retail empire of tycoon Philip Green may die amid COVID-19

Nov 27, 2020 5:58 pm

The retail empire of tycoon Philip Green, which owns well-known British fashion chains like Topshop, appears to be on the brink of collapse following the economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic. In...

Universal?s ?The Croods? has $2M box office debut amid pandemic

Nov 27, 2020 5:33 pm

Universal Pictures’ release of “The Croods: A New Age” logged $2 million in ticket sales at its opening, a paltry sum by industry standards that nevertheless marked the s...

Amazon to hand out holiday bonuses after flap over ?turkey vouchers?

Nov 27, 2020 4:21 pm

Amazon is handing out holiday bonuses to its warehouse workers companywide, just days after employees griped about getting “turkey vouchers” ahead of Thanksgiving that were worth a...

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Over 1,300 people in UK misdiagnosed with COVID-19 after lab error

Nov 28, 2020 7:18 pm

Officials with the government's Test and Trace division contacted a total of 1,311 people who initially tested positive between Nov. 19 and Nov. 23 to tell them their results were moot, and that they ...

Incoming Florida Congressman Carlos Gimenez tests postive for COVID-19

Nov 28, 2020 7:02 pm

Incoming Florida Congressman Carlos A. Gimenez has tested positive for the coronavirus. “After several negative tests, both my wife, Lourdes, and I tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. We...

Jon Voight warns country ?in great danger? if Joe Biden takes office

Nov 28, 2020 6:53 pm

Hollywood icon Jon Voight released a video warning that the country was “in great danger if we fall under a Biden administration” and calling out left wing activists for advocating...

Dyker Heights neighbors split over famous Christmas lights display

Nov 28, 2020 6:33 pm

Not even a pandemic can mess with Christmas in Brooklyn. Lucy Spata, the longtime doyenne of the famous Dyker Heights holiday lights ? which usually draw some 300,000 visitors each year ? says she is ...

Funeral worker apologizes for selfie with Diego Maradona?s body

Nov 28, 2020 5:52 pm

Royal biographer claims Princess Diana was told ?They?re going to wipe you?

Nov 28, 2020 5:36 pm

"They were implicated in this kind of dark conspiracy, to the point where Diana thought that her head was on the chopping block," biographer Andrew Morton tells viewers, according to the Dai...

Black Friday shoppers set record for online sales thanks to COVID-19 pandemic

Nov 28, 2020 5:25 pm

Shoppers set a new record for spending on Black Friday, only this year, it was online. Nervous about the coronavirus, Black Friday shoppers avoided the stores and took to their keyboards on what is no...

GoFundMe raises over $83K for fishermen presumed lost at sea

Nov 28, 2020 4:11 pm

?These four men were the best out there. They will be deeply missed, but they will never be forgotten,? the organizer of the GoFundMe page wrote.

Dip in COVID-19 testing over Thanksgiving could show false decline in spread

Nov 28, 2020 3:44 pm

A dip in COVID testing over the holidays may result in the false perception that the spread of the virus is slowing, experts warn. ?I just hope that people don?t misinterpret the numbers and think tha...

Diego Maradona superfan named twins Mara and Dona after soccer legend

Nov 28, 2020 3:31 pm

They’re carrying the Maradona name into the next generation. Not as relatives of the soccer star, though. Argentinian twins Mara and Dona were given their first names as a tribute to the lat...