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- Airbnb wants to add more hosts and properties, expand in markets like India, China and Latin America and attract new guests. First, it will need to recover.
- New CEO says Nokia will do “whatever it takes” to achieve 5G leadership; plans reorganization of company into four business units.
- Google responded immediately, saying "People use Google because they choose to -- not because they're forced to or because they can't find alternatives."
- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple are answering for their companies' practices before Congress.
- The coronavirus has upended the way cities and states market themselves as summer travel destinations, and some tourism officials are just emerging from an especially awkward position: telling pote
- Airbnb is taking more steps to crack down on parties and nuisance guests as the City of Ottawa tightens regulations on homes listed locally on short-term rental platforms
- It could be lights out for tiny toiletries.
- Spending on next-day Prime delivery is 'a necessary strategy to compete with brick-and-mortar's speed advantage to the customer,' analyst says.
- Federal regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business
- Icelandic budget airline WOW Air ceased operations on Thursday, stranding passengers across two continents.
- Amazon has confirmed that it will split its much-anticipated second headquarters between New York City and Arlington, Va.
- The Coca-Cola Company said Monday it is "closely watching" the expanding use of a cannabis element in drinks, another sign cannabis and cannabis-infused products are getting more acceptan
- Amazon on Tuesday became the second publicly traded company to be worth US$1 trillion, hot on the heels of iPhone maker Apple.
- Hotel and home-sharing companies don't just want to sell you a room anymore. They also want to sell you an experience.
- Facebook faced a day of reckoning Thursday as its shares plunged in the biggest one-day drop in stock-market history.
- Green Thumb Industries had a business plan, expertise and plenty of ambition to grow its marijuana business.
- Google parent Alphabet on Monday reported second-quarter earnings that pleased Wall Street, even as it booked a $5.1 billion charge to cover
- European regulators came down hard on another U.S.
- Facebook's Instagram service is loosening its restraints on video in an attempt to lure younger viewers away from YouTube when they're looking for something to watch on their smartphones.
- Microsoft is paying US$7.5 billion for the popular coder hangout GitHub as the maker of Windows further embraces the types of open-source projects it used to shun.
- The New York Stock Exchange for the first time in its 226-year history will be led by a woman.
- Twitter has remained largely outside of the crosshairs of lawmakers over the privacy issues that have tripped up Facebook, but it continues to face its own, unique challenges.
- Facebook's troubles with Russian election meddlers, "fake news" and misused data have dominated headlines globally.
- Bitcoin "miners" who use rows of computers whirring at the same time to produce virtual currencies began taking root along New York's northern border a couple of years ago to tap into some of the n
- Marriott is combining its Marriott, Starwood and Ritz-Carlton loyalty programs into a single program this August.
- Under fire for the worst privacy debacle in his company's history, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg batted away often-aggressive questioning
- China on Wednesday issued a $50 billion list of U.S.
- Spotify picked up more fans on Wall Street on Tuesday as investors gave the unprofitable company a warm welcome in its stock market debut.
- The travel and tourism sector is set for a modest slowdown in 2018 as a result of higher oil prices and airfares, a year after it experienced its best year on record, according to a leading global
- The prospect of a full-blown trade war between the world's two biggest economies rattled investors Thursday, sending U.S. stocks to their biggest loss in six weeks.
- Facebook's latest privacy scandal, involving Trump campaign consultants who allegedly stole data on tens of millions of users in order to influence elections, has some people reconsiderin
- There's a little-known secret about artificial intelligence: It's powered by hundreds of thousands of real people.
- He didn't get the hashtag quite right on the first try, so they withheld the free stuffed bear he waited in line a half-hour to earn.
- Once a month, accountant Michael Byrne pulls on his rubber boots and makes his way to a spot on the banks of London’s River Thames.
- Mark Zuckerberg says his "personal challenge" for 2018 is to fix Facebook.
- Disney is buying the Murdoch family's Fox movie and television studios and some cable and international TV businesses for about US$52.4 billion, as the home of Mickey Mouse tries to meet
- Wall Street got its first taste of bitcoin on Monday, with the price of the first-ever futures contract for the digital currency jumping 20 per cent.
- A Russian weather satellite and nearly 20 micro-satellites – including one made by Ottawa-based Telesat – failed to enter their designated orbits Tuesday following the launch from Russia's new cosm
- The iPhone X's lush screen, facial-recognition skills and $1,000 price tag are breaking new ground in Apple's marquee product line.
- Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years - but autonomous boats could be just around the pier.
- Escalating price reflects the increasing sophistication of smartphones, which have been evolving into status symbols akin to automobiles.
- A 28-year-old former Google engineer who was fired over a memo he wrote about gender differences said Tuesday he's exploring all his legal options and has already filed a labour complaint
- Electric car maker Tesla Inc. calmed jittery investors Wednesday, assuring them it can meet aggressive production targets for its new lower-cost Model 3 sedan.
- Apple's iPhone may be ready for its next big act as a springboard into "augmented reality," a technology that projects life-like images into real-world settings viewed through a screen.
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos briefly became the world's richest man Thursday in Forbes magazine's tracking of wealth, as stock in his e-commerce company hit an all-time high.
- Scrolling through an ad-free Instagram is now a distant memory, much like the once ad-free Facebook itself.
- Nokia continued to be hit by a decline in its core networks sector in the second quarter with almost flat sales, and cautioned Thursday that a weakening in networks would be greater than
- A Wisconsin company is offering to microchip its employees, enabling them to open doors, log onto their computers and purchase break room snacks with a simple swipe of the hand.
- Microsoft's cloud computing business helped boost its fourth-quarter revenue and earnings above Wall Street's expectations, further validating a strategy pushed by CEO Satya Nadella since
- Ericsson shares plunged Tuesday after the Swedish mobile networks company posted a second-quarter loss on falling sales and warned that there was unlikely to be any improvement soon.
- Microsoft is laying off thousands of employees in a shake-up aimed at selling more subscriptions to software applications that can be used on any internet-connected device.
- A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private se
- Travis Kalanick, the combative and embattled CEO of ride-hailing giant Uber, has resigned under pressure from investors at a pivotal time fo
- Apple expected to reveal new smart speaker at developer conference in effort to catch Amazon, GoogleApple appears poised to unveil a voice-activated, internet-connected speaker that would create a new digital pipeline into people's homes.
- Boarding passes could someday become quaint relics for air travellers.
- Making good on a campaign promise, the Trump administration formally told Congress Thursday that it intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
- The worldwide "ransomware" cyberattack spread to thousands of more computers on Monday as people logged in at work, disrupting business, schools, hospitals and daily life, though no new l
- Netflix is on the verge of surpassing 100 million global subscribers, a testament to how much the video streaming service has changed the entertainment landscape since its debut a decade
- Huawei Technology Ltd., the world's biggest maker of telecoms equipment, said Friday its 2016 sales rose 32 per cent fro
- The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months and signalled that further hikes this year will be gradual.
- Intel will buy Israel's Mobileye in a deal valued at about US$15 billion, instantly propelling the computer chip and tec
- Anyone wanting to invest in the company that owns Snapchat now has an opportunity to do something that early investors w
- Apple may not become an automaker, but it still wants to develop its own self-driving technology.
- Cisco Systems says it will lay off 5,500 employees as the internet gear maker scrambles to adapt to technology changes that have reduced demand for its main products.
- IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says the future of gadgets is not just connectivity, but the ability to analyze and "think."
