GE traces its roots back to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the first practical, long-lasting light bulb in 1879. One hundred and forty years later, his company appears to be having trouble transitioning to a "smart" bulb.
Most H-1B visas go to India, and they've been hugely important for its tech companies, as well as Silicon Valley and other US firms. Reducing the number available would be a big blow.
Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies submitted letters to the Trump Administration asking for their products to be excluded from a proposed 25% tariff on an additional $300 billion in Chinese goods.
Only five years ago, Slack officially launched out of the ashes of a failed gaming project. Now the workplace communication tool is worth more than $20 billion.
In the time it took me to type this sentence about Slack, I received more than a dozen messages in a private Slack group and more posts than I can count in several team channels. I typed many words in response to those messages — some of them even borderline good words — but came no closer to completing my job for the day: writing this article about Slack.
ByteDance, the Beijing-based startup behind popular short video platform TikTok, has amassed more than one billion monthly active users across its apps. Many are outside China.
Facebook's announcement of its Libra cryptocurrency plans Tuesday was met with swift and critical response from politicians in both the United States and Europe, who called for increased regulations.
The long-running US campaign against Huawei may be starting to hurt its business but it hasn't damaged the tech company's reputation among Chinese students looking for work.
YouTube is weighing a number of changes to its handling of content for children following pressure from inside and outside the company, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Best Buy has succeeded during the online shopping era by beefing up its customer service. Once again, the retailer will lean on its customer service chops by expanding its partnership with Apple to offer repairs on iPhones and MacBooks at all of its stores.
Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire founder of investment firm Blackstone, has given the University of Oxford its largest single donation in hundreds of years to help fund research into the ethics of artificial intelligence.
