Homekit versus Alexa war continues to explore new solutions and technologies, while following different approaches, for securing a lead in the smart-home niche. Within a span of under a year, the “Echo speaker system” and the “Alexa voice-controlled digital” assistant’s combination introduced by...

In what can be considered a fresh headache for Toshiba Corp as it scrambles to offset a separate imminent multi-billion dollar writedown, the Japanese trust banks are preparing to sue the conglomerate over its 2015 accounting scandal.   On Friday the conglomerate said that in order to raise...

As U.S. companies turn their spending habits upside down to boost profits and to re-invest in their businesses, the number of such companies using a budgeting tool made famous in the 1970s by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is surging.   Signals that a broader cross-section of U.S....

Companies see “tremendous potential for the application of blockchain”. Anna Irrera reports to Reuters that several companies including Bosch Ltd and Cisco Systems Inc have formed a consortium for working together to explore the ways to secure the usage of blockchain technology for improving IoT...

While being a very lucrative alternative means for business and sale, the digital world can dump an avalanche of orders in a short period of time, creating delays and lines that scare away customers as Starbucks' has found.   The company’s coffee shops are suffering from a feared consequence...

While analysts cheered the company's progress in diversifying its business beyond advertising, hurt by a higher tax rate, Google parent Alphabet Inc posted fourth-quarter profit below analysts' estimates.   Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat underscored that the company is...

While Microsoft Corp saw a slight decline in margins in the unit that includes its flagship cloud platform Azure, but helped by growth in its fast-growing cloud computing business, the company reported a 3.6 percent rise in fiscal second-quarter profit.   The company has been steered away...

Swiss watch exports fell by 9.9% in 2016, which was the worst figure since 2009, when the world global financial crisis erupted. In Hong Kong - the main sales market for the Swiss manufacturers - sales fell by 11.4%. Among the main factors that influenced the negative statistics, analysts noted...

Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 155.80 points, or 0.8%, and stood at 20,068.51 at the close of trading. This became possible largely thanks to Boeing Co. and Caterpillar Inc., which demonstrated the positive trend. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average was created in 1896, it consisted of 12...