As high inventories and low commodity prices spur consolidation in the global agrichemicals industry, German drug and chemicals giant Bayer AG has made an unsolicited takeover offer for Monsanto Co, the world's biggest seed company.   While the information about the deal was disclosed by...

Doubling down on artificial intelligence and machine learning as the keys to its future, Alphabet's Google Inc unveiled its answer to Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant along with new messaging and virtual reality products. The unveiling was done at Google’s annual I/O developer conference.  ...

Chinese group China Molybdenum bought a niobium producing business of one of the oldest mining firm Anglo American. Analysts believe the demand for niobium is associated with the metal’s exceptional value for steelmaking. The largest in mainland China manufacturer of molybdenum China Molybdenum Co....

Real profits from virtual reality are being expected by a growing number of U.S. companies.   Virtual reality that so far has mostly been found in video games, is being incorporated by companies ranging from snowmobile manufacturers to furniture sellers simply because growth is hard to come...

Twitter plans to exclude links and photos from the limit of 140 characters. The innovation could be announced in the coming weeks. This decision should encourage users to publish more multimedia content. Twitter is going to exclude links and photos from the 140 characters, which limit tweets’ size....

Microsoft may terminate release of Nokia phones and sell the brand to the Taiwanese company Foxconn. This reported Phonearena citing a source familiar with the situation. The possible transaction’s amount was not specified. Recall, that in 2014, Nokia had been forced to sell its mobile phone...

After having faced challenges since its early days with production delays to batteries that smoked and burned, Boeing Co's high-tech 787 Dreamliner is now facing a challenge of slowing sale.   The troubles for the Dreamliner resulted in the grounding of the worldwide fleet for months in...

If media reports are to be believed, it might not be loon before Apple Inc. is able to reap the benefits of investing $1 billion in Chinese car-hailing service Didi Chuxing.   According to Bloomberg, Didi is targeting an initial public offering in New York next year. Quoting sources, the...

While global financial network SWIFT disclosed a previously unreported attack on a commercial bank, the hack at Sony Corp's film studio in 2014 was connected to the cyber heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank by investigators probing it.   Cyber-security firm BAE Systems said...