Google is the hottest company in the robotics business, but it wants no part of a Pentagon-backed robot-building contest. Its decision to drop out of the competition has irked some robotics experts.

Self-driving vehicles could reduce accidents in the U.S. by 90%, says consulting firm McKinsey & Co., saving lives and eliminating $190 billion in damages and health-care costs a year.

Apple suppliers have been told to start production of a larger-screen iPad in the second half of this year as the U.S. tech giant wrestles with new designs and features for the enterprise market.

Xiaomi expects sales and smartphone shipments to each rise by more than 30% this year, its CEO said, as the Chinese smartphone maker looks to overseas markets to keep up its growth.

Etsy unveiled plans to further test investors’ appetite for e-commerce companies, filing for an initial public offering a decade after it was founded in a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment as a way to sell handmade goods online.

A judge in a court battle over alleged collusion on hiring among technology giants including Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe Systems gave preliminary approval to a $415 million settlement that will fund payouts to thousands of employees.

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The old-school auto makers are gearing up to take on the threat posed by emerging competitors Google and Apple in a technological and financial gunfight.

Electronic books cannot share the same reduced rate of value-added tax as paper books, the top EU court ruled, because e-books are ‘electronically supplied services,’ not goods.

The House of Lords is calling for the tracking of leisure and commercial drone flights to avoid safety concerns stifling an industry considered to have huge potential for job creation.

An Israeli company says it’s developed an optical lens and image processing software that’s so powerful it can turn any smartphone into a hyperspectral sensor, potentially allowing cameras to break down the chemical components of almost any object from a distance.

A female developer at the heart of a debate over sexism in gaming has a message for those gathered at a prominent industry conference this week: you’re not doing enough to combat misogyny.

John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists and a self-professed champion for women in technology, admitted Wednesday during testimony in his firm’s sex-discrimination trial that there is no easy path for women to succeed in Silicon Valley.

Samsung is buying Utah-based YESCO Electronics, which focuses on making digital billboards and message signs, for an undisclosed amount.

Chinese electronics maker ZTE, the fourth-largest maker of cellphones sold in the U.S., plans a push to make itself more visible.

Increasingly frustrated with how much time their children spend in front of computer and mobile screens, more parents are willing to pay up for family vacations at resorts where the most attractive perk is limited or unavailable Wi-Fi.

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Germany’s government is pushing to expand tax breaks for startups and trying to ease their path to the stock market, in an effort to buck a trend that worries policy makers: a decline in entrepreneurialism.

Acing an online course could lead to a Wharton degree.

The FCC dealt Neustar a setback, recommending that a telecommunications database contract it has held for two decades and accounts for about half of its revenue be transferred to a rival.