Amazon.com is looking to an ageing technology to continue its push to digitise and connect the home: the landline phone. At an event in Seattle in the US on Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a $35 device that plugs into existing
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Amazon.com has debuted a new high-end version of its Echo speaker with a smart-home hub system built in, stepping up a fight with Google and Apple for digital control of people’s homes. The upgraded device, called the Echo Plus
Apple is facing production delays to its top-of-the-line iPhone X due to problems with the 3D sensor manufacturing process, according to a series of news reports. Makers of the components, used in facial recognition
Twitter, struggling to attract new users, will lift its 140-character limit on tweets in an experiment with a small group that may expand to the entire social media platform. The test announced on Tuesday will let users
Dyson, best known as a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, hand driers and air filters, will build an electric car by 2020, founder James Dyson said on Tuesday. The company is investing £1bn to develop the car, plus the
Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to surround the Earth with thousands of Internet-beaming satellites is encountering turbulence from regulators concerned about interference with competing systems. SpaceX, the rocket start-up Musk
Apple’s latest smartphones, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, have more expensive parts, but the company will still make significant profits because it raised prices for the devices, according to research firm IHS Markit
Following record results that flagged the growth of its cybersecurity business, Deloitte has revealed that it has been successfully targeted by a cyberattack that let hackers access data from an internal e-mail
Silicon Valley spent more than a decade finding ways to give company founders more control. When Facebook tried to follow suit, shareholders pushed back. Google started it with a 2004 initial public offering that
Uber Technologies’ potential ban in London is giving new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi an early opportunity to demonstrate a more humble approach to conflict than co-founder Travis Kalanick. Responding to last