The Cable Company That Wants to Take the Pain Out of Streaming

The Cable Company That Wants to Take the Pain Out of Streaming

Streaming your favorite shows and movies is fun. Less fun: paying for six different services, remembering multiple passwords, figuring out which service has which program—and toggling to live TV so you can watch news and sports.  Guess who says he can help? The cable guy. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved….

China Detains a Top Executive at Evergrande’s Electric-Vehicle Unit

China Detains a Top Executive at Evergrande’s Electric-Vehicle Unit

Updated Jan. 8, 2024 5:07 am ET The bad news keeps coming for China Evergrande and its investors.  A top executive of the beleaguered property company’s electric-vehicle business has been detained as part of a criminal investigation, adding to Evergrande’s mounting problems. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Buying Home and Auto Insurance Is Becoming Impossible

Buying Home and Auto Insurance Is Becoming Impossible

Listen to article (2 minutes) After Allstate suffered billions of dollars in losses and failed to get the rate increases it wanted, it resorted to the nuclear option.  The insurance giant threatened last fall to stop renewing auto insurance for customers in three states that hadn’t given in to its demands, which would have left…

Congress has a deal to fund the government and not much time to pass it

Congress has a deal to fund the government and not much time to pass it

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Congressional leaders reached a $1.66 trillion agreement Sunday to finance the federal government in 2024, preserving funding for key domestic and social safety net programs despite GOP demands to cut the budget. Now lawmakers are up against a stiff deadline to pass legislation to codify…

Fuselage breach on Alaska Airlines flight puts Boeing under new scrutiny

Fuselage breach on Alaska Airlines flight puts Boeing under new scrutiny

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The harrowing midair breach of the fuselage on an Alaska Airlines flight near Portland, Ore., on Friday caps a turbulent year for Boeing, with its flagship 737 Max jets beset by manufacturing problems. With an eye on the potential financial hit, the company had recently…

FAA grounds more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s after section of Alaska Airlines plane blows out

FAA grounds more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s after section of Alaska Airlines plane blows out

Passenger oxygen masks hang from the roof next to a missing window and a portion of a side wall of an Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which had been bound for Ontario, California and suffered depressurization soon after departing, in Portland, Oregon, U.S., on Jan. 5, 2024, in this picture obtained from social media. Instagram/@strawberrvy |…