After struggling for years to wring profit from the mobile boom, Google is benefiting from a surge in clicks on ads on smartphones. Capitalising on consumers’ shift toward handsets and away from
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Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing raised more than $5,5bn from investors, scoring the single largest round of funding on record to bankroll an expansion beyond China and into driver-less technology. Didi disclosed the financing in an
Twitter’s road to a turnaround looks like it isn’t quite as rough as expected. The company reported a decline in quarterly revenue for the first time since it went public in 2013, but sales, at $548m, were higher
Larry Page has his flying cars. Sergey Brin shall have an airship. Brin, the Google co-founder, has secretly been building a massive airship inside Hangar 2 at the Nasa Ames Research Centre, according to four people
After almost a decade of research, Google’s autonomous car project is close to becoming a real service. Now known as Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car unit is letting residents of Phoenix in the US sign up to use its
Apple has gone to space to find additional talent for its augmented reality efforts. The iPhone maker has hired Jeff Norris, a specialist in the new technology from Nasa, to help build future products, according to
Lyft drivers have accused Uber Technologies of illegally tracking their whereabouts using spyware code-named Hell to gain a competitive edge in the ride-hailing market. Uber engaged in “illegal, surreptitious and
When IBM shareholders gather on Tuesday, they’ll be asked to sign off on a $33m pay package for CEO Ginni Rometty. It’s a hefty sum for any CEO, let alone one who’s overseen five years of
Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma said society should prepare for decades of pain as the Internet disrupts the economy. The world must change education systems and establish how to work
Sony shares jumped the most in almost three months after the company’s better-than-projected preliminary earnings boosted analyst confidence in its…