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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Fortinet Inc. (FTNT) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $313.8 million. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said it had profit of 40 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 44 cents per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 13

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SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Essex Property Trust Inc. (ESS) on Tuesday reported a key measure of profitability in its fourth quarter. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The real estate investment trust, based in San Mateo, California, said it had funds from operations of $252.4 million, or $3.77 per

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Super Bowl is advertising’s biggest, glitziest stage. Big name advertisers from Netflix to Google are paying as much as $7 million for a 30-second spot during the big game on Sunday, in order to capture the attention of the roughly 100 million viewers who

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney’s government in Florida has been the envy of any private business, with its unprecedented powers in deciding what to build and how to build it at the Walt Disney World Resort, issuing bonds and holding the ability to build its own nuclear plant if it

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — New clashes between protesters and security forces in southern Nigeria have left at least one person injured, amid demonstrations against a cash shortage. That was caused by the West African nation’s push to rapidly phase out its old currency notes. People on Tuesday attacked banks accused

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A bevy of booze brands will be in the Super Bowl ad lineup this year, now that Anheuser-Busch has ended its exclusive advertising sponsorship after more than 30 years. In addition to celebrities hawking Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, viewers will see some famous folks touting

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is ticking higher after the head of the Federal Reserve signaled last week’s stunningly strong jobs report isn’t likely to change where interest rates are heading on its own, as some investors had feared. The S&P 500 was 0.8% higher in Tuesday afternoon

ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines says most of its workers will get a 5% pay raise in April. The airline said Tuesday it will also increase the amount of money available for merit raises. The pay hikes are for non-union employees including flight attendants, who have been the target of several close organizing campaigns

BY PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Air monitoring hasn’t detected dangerous levels of fumes in communities where crews released and burned toxic chemicals from a derailed train, but Ohio and Pennsylvania residents living close to the wreckage still aren’t being allowed in their homes, authorities said Tuesday. While the fire

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence. The revamping of Microsoft’s second-place search engine could give the software giant a head start against

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — As legal sports gambling proliferates, the number of Americans betting on the Super Bowl and the total amount they’re wagering is surging — although most of the action is still off the books. An estimated 1 in 5 American adults will make some sort of

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress began considering critical aviation legislation on Tuesday in the aftermath of recent close calls involving airline and cargo jets at airports in New York and Texas. Lawmakers celebrated the small number of deaths on airline flights in the United States since a 2009 crash that killed 50 people,

By FRANK JORDANS and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands announced Tuesday that they plan to provide Ukraine with at least 100 refurbished Leopard 1 battle tanks in the coming months, a pledge that comes as Kyiv anticipates a new Russian offensive around the anniversary of its invasion.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At a time when community newspapers across the United States are dying at alarming rates, longtime activist Ralph Nader is giving birth to one. He’s bankrolling the start of the Winsted Citizen, covering the New England mill town where he grew up and still lives

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British energy firm BP has reported record annual earnings amid growing calls for the U.K. government to boost taxes on companies profiting from the high price of oil and natural gas after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The London-based company said Tuesday that underlying replacement cost profit jumped

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A jury has sat solemnly in a gilded hall in central London, presided over by a bewigged representative of the crown in flowing black robes, but there were no criminals in the dock. Britain’s coinage was on trial. In a ceremony that dates back to the 12th

Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region. Mozambique’s Islamic extremist insurgency, which started in

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in quiet Tuesday trading. The Dow was also down, while the Nasdaq was slightly higher. Stocks have pulled back recently, shaving off some of their strong start to the year. The market had