In a change that would wreak havoc with many technology groups' business models in Europe, based on revenues generated in EU countries, Paris and Berlin are mounting a joint offensive to tax internet giants such as Google and Amazon.   National tax codes will be...

Hoping that number’s auspicious connotations in China will help turn around fortunes in the world’s biggest smartphone market after six quarters of falling sales, Apple Inc will launch an expected “iPhone 8” on Tuesday.   But with the latest model tipped to have a price tag upward of $1,000...

In order to stay one step ahead of Mother Nature, traders are shifting fuel tankers around the world like chess pieces.   However, while one natural disaster is difficult enough to trade around, as three hurricanes and an earthquake rattled the western hemisphere, this week, traders have...

According to a top Wall Street firm, there are more ways to trade the autonomous driving trend than you might think.   On the potential implications of self-driving cars to other consumer industries, Morgan Stanley shared its out-of-the-box ideas and analysis.   "Shared and autonomous...

Between now and the year 2036, 7,240 commercial aircraft worth $1.1 trillion will be bought by Chinese airliners according to a forecast by aircraft marker Boeing.     A firm reflection on the belief of Boeing in the prospects of the Chinese airline industry is made by the most recent...

Echoing China’s resistance to more punitive measures to pressure Pyongyang into abandoning its atomic and missile programs, after its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, Russian President Vladimir Putin again rejected U.S. calls for new sanctions against North Korea.   The Russian leader...

In Pakistan across the Himalayas, Beijing has pledged to spend $57 billion on infrastructure projects as part of its “Belt and Road” initiative and Zhang Yang, a businessman from Chongqing in southwest China, is one of a growing number of Chinese pioneers sensing an opportunity in this new region....

A clean, fast taxi service for the waterways of major cities is what French yachtsman Alain Thebault wants to turn a boat design into that he used to break a world speed sailing record in 2009.   Thebault expects to raise between 50 to 100 million euros by the end of September as the...

Robot manufacturers in January were warned about nearly 50 vulnerabilities in their home, business and industrial robots, by researchers now say that only a few of the problems have been addressed.   The vulnerabilities would allow hackers to make robots lurch and move violently, putting...

A recent study by researchers at DePaul University has concluded that U.S. bus companies and the Amtrak passenger rail system that bet more consumers would embrace alternatives to driving for trips shorter than 400 miles, are being squeezed by cheap gasoline.   No Amtrak passenger rail...

While there is rising awareness among consumers about the excessive consumption of sugar in various products, people have been talking about the sugar content in soft drinks.   Singapore is one city state that has been drawing a campaign to fight diabetes and in order to limit the sugar...