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OAKLAND, Calif: Search startup Onna Technologies Inc, which helps companies find information buried within emails, chats and storage services, announced on Wednesday US$27 million in new funding from venture capital firm Atomico and past investors such as Slack Technologies Inc. The investment ...

Nissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta helped engineer the troubled automaker's latest turnaround plan. Now his allies are pressing the board to promote him to co-CEO to drive the new strategy, said four people with direct knowledge.

BERLIN: Contentful, a startup based in Berlin and San Francisco, said on Wednesday it had raised US$80 million from investors led by Sapphire Ventures to scale up its content management systems for commercial websites. The Series E funding round was also backed by investors including General ...

Building robots and drones is messy: Developers must pull together sensors to be the eyes and ears, chips for the brains and motors to make the device move, tying them all together with several kinds of software.

Environmental campaigners delivered a 12-foot (3.6-metre) tall mock-up of an Amazon parcel to the French finance ministry on Wednesday to demand that the government rein in the e-commerce giant's expansion in France.

The anti-China trade mood has reached U.S. kitchens, where a battle is being waged over competing visions of where and how cabinets should be made.

PepsiCo Inc's Aunt Jemima pancake mix will change its name and image in an effort by the brand to distance itself from racial stereotypes, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

Southwest Airlines said on Wednesday it has enough cash to carry on business for the next two years, up from its prior forecast of 20 months, as travel demand gradually picks up.

WASHINGTON: A new U.S. rule regarding China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is a needed "clarification" to help develop standards, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday, adding that security concerns remain over the telecoms equipment maker. Ross, in an interview on Fox Business ...

When Bryan Quevedo received his U.S. government stimulus check last month, he invested US$1,000 in the stock of bankrupt car rental company Hertz Global Holdings Inc .