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Makoto Uchida was the dark horse in the race to be Nissan Motor Co.'s latest chief executive officer.

The European Union is pledging more than $150 billion to develop next-generation digital industries this decade as it seeks to reverse a widening gap with the U.S. and East Asian rivals in advanced technologies like chips and artificial intelligence.

3 Investing for income in todays markets is like slogging across the Sahara looking for a cold drink. With bank savings accounts yielding around 0.04% annually, based on the national average, it would take more than a millennium for your money to double. No wonder so many investors are desperately searching for yield. Some are even going so far as to consider websites and apps that urge you to buy and lend out the worlds hottest asset: digital currencies like bitcoin and ether. Cryptocurrency t...

The U.S. and the European Union agreed Friday to suspend tariffs on wine, luggage, produce and other goods related to a longstanding dispute over government subsidies to Boeing Co. and Airbus SE, in a sign of easing trade tensions.

Exxon, Once a Skeptic, Sees Profit in Capturing Carbon Emissions 1 Exxon, Once a Skeptic, Sees Profit in Capturing Carbon Emissions Oil giant had been pessimistic about economic prospects of the technology but now wants to commercialize carbon capture and storage published : 5 Mar 2021 at 04:00 1 Exxon Mobil Corp. says the time has come to turn capturing carbon emissions into a real business, as it faces pressure from activists to become a green...

1 A woman walks past the Google offices in Dublin. On Wednesday the internet giant announced the end of targeting ads based on individual users web-browsing behavior. Alphabet Inc.s Google has crushed almost all its competitors in the world of digital-advertising technology. But one rival is emerging as the best hope to challenge the tech giant--if it manages to keep up its momentum. The Trade Desk Inc., which specializes in helping companies buy online ads across publi...

Ricoh shifts into the digital realm published : 5 Mar 2021 at 04:00 2 Print is dead? Japans Ricoh Co, best known as a maker of copiers, printers, faxes and other office mainstays, has joined those saying so. With the pandemic upending workplace practices around the world, the office-equipment giant on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious shift away from paper and into the digital realm, aiming to transform into a digital-services provider. Investors cheered the move, wit...

Banks in Germany Tell Customers to Take Deposits Elsewhere 1 More customers are having to pay negative rates as savings have surged amid the pandemic published : 3 Mar 2021 at 04:00 1 Commerzbank, one of Germanys biggest lenders, has told customers since last year to pay a 0.5% annual rate to keep large sums of money with it. (Photo: Bloomberg) Interest rates have been negative in Europe for years. But it took the flood of savings unleashe...

Asias Economic Recovery Put at Risk by Slow Pace of Shots Earlier success has made it less urgent for many countries to move quickly in vaccinating their citizens published : 4 Mar 2021 at 04:00 A nurse received a Covid-19 vaccine in Bangkok on Monday as Thailand rolled out its national vaccination program. Bangkok Post Asian nations led the world in crushing Covid-19 in 2020. Now some are being hamstrung by border closures and other rules...

8 Drivers of electric vehicles who wish to take them on road trips need to plan ahead carefully. Here, a fast charging station in the parking lot of a Whole Foods Market in Austin, Texas. REUTERS Bradley Wilkinson is the owner of a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt, and the kind of electric-vehicle diehard who knows how to squeeze every last mile of range out of his vehicle. Even so, during his most recent road trip, from Tampa, Florida, back home to Fort Carson, Colorado, he spent...