$30 million in investments has been raised to help it take on giants like Intel and Nvidia by a computer chip start-up designing hardware for artificial intelligence (AI) applications recently.   Aimed to be used in applications from driverless cars to cloud computing, the U.K.-based...

Hammering out minute details of its first phone while sitting next to each other at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters, people working on hardware and the voice-activated Google Assistant for the Pixel phone started working together about six months ago.   Alphabet Inc's...

Giving Toyota Motor Corp the option to enter the growing all-electric car market, the Japanese automaker can now safely pack more power at no significant extra cost as engineers at the company say they have tamed volatile lithium-ion battery technology.   Toyota has largely held back...

U.S. government data provided to Reuters shows that as the U.S. Department of Defense covered more prescriptions for the lifesaving allergy shot at near retail prices, Mylan NV's price hikes on EpiPens have added millions to the agency’s spending since 2008.   Reuters reports that according...

As Google parent Alphabet Inc showed it has honed its core business for the mobile era and is closing in on the next wave of computing, the search company bested analysts' estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue.   Marking the search giant's seventh straight quarter of double-digit...

One of air travel's last undisrupted bastions - the economy-class cabin, is being taken on by some start-ups. There's been less attention to innovation at the rear of the plane, while first and business class travelers have long enjoyed comfort upgrades.   "We want to make travel memorable...

Provided that his popular media streaming company continued to be treated fairly, he was in favor of AT&T Inc's planned $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc, said Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings.   Hastings said it was critical that Netflix's content be treated the same as...

Staffing agency Randstad said that it saw softness in the United Kingdom and its key market of the Netherlands even as the world's second-largest staffing agency reported a nearly 9 percent rise in core earnings in the third quarter on Tuesday.   Going up from 249 million euros in the three...

About 25 percent of hotel operator and manager Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc would be bought over by Chinese aviation and shipping conglomerate HNA Group.   The Chinese company said this on Monday.   The Chinese company would buy the shares from Blackstone Group LP which is the...

Even as investors showed skepticism by pushing shares of both companies lower, AT&T Inc Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said that he expects the planned $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc to receive regulatory clearances.   He was speaking to investors on Monday when he said...

A reckoning is faced by Airbnb, the online lodging service that investors now believe is worth $30 billion.   The simmering tensions that were generated as the company clashed with local public officials seeking to minimize the impact of short-term rentals on neighborhoods and urban housing...