20.01.20
Waymo's long-term commitment to safety drivers in autonomous cars
Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo took a big step forward last fall when it began ferrying riders around the Phoenix area in...
20.01.20
Twitter's top lawyer is final word on blocking tweets-even Donald Trump's
Whenever somebody on Twitter takes issue with the network's rules or content policies, they almost always resort to the same strategy: They send a tweet to @jack. A quick scan of Chief...
20.01.20
Goldman readies a hiring spree and capital to meet its China ambitions
The news swept through Goldman's offices around China, changing everything. On a Friday afternoon in late 2017, an official in Beijing announced that the world's most populous nation w...
19.01.20
Greener fashion industry could unlock more than $100 billion in value
Global fashion's "take-make-dispose" model needs a sustainability makeover. That's according to a report out this week from Barclays titled "Green is the new black," which projects the...
19.01.20
Lego sets its sights on a growing market: Stressed-out adults
Elisabeth Briggs finds calm in clicking small, interlocking bricks together and turning piles of multicolored plastic into something recognizable. Sometimes she has a beer while playin...
18.01.20
The crime-fighting app that caused a phone-hacking scandal in Italy
After successfully creating a health care app for doctors to view medical records, Diego Fasano, an Italian entrepreneur, got some well-timed advice from a police officer friend: Go in...
17.01.20
The next China trade battle could be over electric cars
SHANGHAI - As Tesla inaugurates a $2 billion electric-car factory in China this month, a brief stroll around an upscale shopping district here shows the company already has plenty of l...
17.01.20
Toshiba says it built an algorithm that's faster than a supercomputer
It's a tantalizing prospect for traders whose success often hinges on microseconds: a desktop PC algorithm that crunches market data faster than today's most advanced supercomputers. J...
17.01.20
China trade deal won't be good for most Americans
President Donald Trump's phase one trade deal with China has been described as something between a "betrayal of American workers" and a welcome "new chapter in U.S.-China relations" th...
16.01.20
Restaurants are all in on plant-based burgers. Except McDonald's
Burger King touched off the plant-based-meat revolution in the restaurant world when it launched its Impossible Whopper in August. It was followed by Dunkin' with its Beyond Sausage br...
16.01.20
Mobile apps made $310 billion in 2019 en route to bigger 2020
Mobile app spending and usage hit a record in 2019 and show no signs of tapering off this year as faster cellular connections and more big-name video streaming services come online, in...
16.01.20
Next U.S. president will have little effect on the stock market. Here's why
As the Democratic primaries take off, stock market prognosticators are handicapping the race for the White House. Will Mike Bloomberg be good for stocks? Will Sen. Amy Klobuchar or Joe...
15.01.20
McDonald's sprinkles some MSG in chicken sandwich race
In McDonald's Corp.'s push to make a fried-chicken sandwich that better competes with Chick-fil-A, it picked up something extra in the recipe: MSG, the flavor enhancer that has both fa...
15.01.20
Google follows Apple in ending third-party 'cookies' in ad-tracking
Google is planning to "render obsolete" a key tool advertisers use to track people around the web, increasing user privacy but also disrupting the marketers and publishers who rely on ...
15.01.20
NSA found Microsoft software flaw and alerted company - rather than weaponize problem
The National Security Agency recently discovered a major flaw in Microsoft's Windows operating system - one that could expose computer users to significant breaches, surveillance or di...
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