WordPress.com now lets you import your Medium blog

Online publishing platform Medium started the year off with a pivot and layoffs. As the company tries to reinvent itself, Automattic, the creator of WordPress, is looking to capitalize with a new import tool for moving from Medium to WordPress.com. The confusingly-named WordPress.com is a service that hosts WordPress blogs and is run separately from […]

Matters of Import: GOP Tax Plans Could Make Cheap Cars a Lot More Expensive

– A plan hatched last summer by Congressional Republicans could usher in the largest change in 30 years to the way the U.S. government taxes corporations on income, imports, and exports, and it has not gone unnoticed by the global auto industry. GOP leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan have proposed what they call a […]

Egypt signs $1bn contract with Russia, France & Oman to import LNG

As Egypt struggles with liquefied natural gas (LNG) shortages after the 2011 revolution, the country has signed a $ 1 billion import contract with Russia’s Rosneft, France’s Engie and Oman’s OTI. Read more Local natural gas company EGAS will buy 45 shipments from the multinationals, Egyptian media Al-Ahram reports. The shipments will range from 138,000 […]

Could Trump Actually Impose an Import Tariff on Mexico?

President Trump capped off a dizzying first week in office by signing an executive order directing the construction of a border wall with Mexico. And, on Thursday, his administration sought to address the two biggest questions plaguing the project: Who is going to pay for it and how? Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, […]