• COUPONS
    Insurers cutting back on drug coupons amid concerns over consumer costs

    John Ellmann, 59, of Highwood, speaks about his struggle with affording his medicine; his health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, has put limits on coupons he uses for his copay. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune) With many drug prices rising, consumers often pull out coupons or discount cards from drugmakers to save money when they buy medications […]

  • HOME & GARDEN
    Puns flower in Troll Knoll garden amid the Sierra foothills

    In the garden of John and Ann Morris, the hills have eyes. So do many trees and bushes. What would you expect in a Troll Knoll? Hundreds of unblinking eyes dot tree trunks in their Funny Face Forest. Guarded by rust-colored dragons, large glowing eyes stare out from grassy mounds. Along a walkway amid Romanesque […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Lenovo Reports Strong PC Sales Amid Tepid Smartphone Demand

    China’s Lenovo Group Ltd, the world’s biggest personal computer (PC) maker, said on Thursday its first-quarter net profit rose 64 percent, beating estimates as solid PC sales offset tepid smartphone demand. Beijing-based Lenovo said in a filing that net profit grew to $173 million (roughly Rs. 1,155 crores) for the quarter ended June from $105 […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Samsung Electronics Warns of difficult 2016 Amid q4 Outlook concerns

    South Korean tech large Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it expects a difficult enterprise environment in 2016 due to susceptible global monetary conditions and heightened opposition in key businessestogether with memory chips and smartphones. In a assertion on Monday, Samsung said chief government Kwon Oh-hyun instructed employees in a new yr‘s cope with that low […]

  • NEWS
    G7 warns against manipulating currencies, amid coverage cut up

    members at the primary session on the G7 finance ministers and crucial bankers assembly in Sendai, Japan. picture: Kyodo thru Reuters Sendai (Japan): G7 ministers warned on Saturday towards contributors manipulating their currencies, coming down in opposition to host Japan, whose plans to tame the resurgent yen ignited a coverage splitwithin the membership of rich […]

  • NEWS
    Mitsui sees first loss since 1947 amid $2 billion writedown

    Impairment charges on mining and energy projects from South America to Australia levied a heavy toll on the books of the Tokyo-based trading house. Photo: Reuters Tokyo: Mitsui & Co., Japan’s second biggest trading house, forecast its first net loss since it was founded in its modern form in 1947 due to impairment charges on […]

  • NEWS
    Apple Said to Have Hired a Corporate Security Officer Amid Legal Battle With the US

    Apple Inc, amid a pitched battle with the US government over law enforcement’s desire to crack into iPhones, has hired a new security executive to oversee its corporate digital defences, people familiar with the matter said. Apple appointed George Stathakopoulos, formerly vice president of information security at Amazonand before that Microsoft Corp’s general manager of […]