Software maker BlackBerry Ltd's (BB.TO)(BBRY.O) long-running recovery effort has been slowed by a dearth of salespeople to promote its revamped and more complex products, with CEO John Chen pledging to hire more sales specialists to help achieve its growth target.
While BlackBerry's traditional customers were security executives in top global...
Wall Street was unable to hold earlier gains as tech stocks once again weighed on sentiment Monday and investors saw little encouragement from the day's macro data.
At 11:36AM ET (15:36GMT), the Dow Jones advanced 24 points, or 0.11%, the S&P 500 inched up less than a point or 0.01%,...
Apple, Google Self-Driving Car Deals Boost Rental Car Leaders
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Shares in Avis Budget Group (CAR) and Hertz Global Holding (HTZ) leapt in trading Monday after it was reported the two rental-car giants forged respective self-driving auto deals with Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL). Avis announced a pact to manage the fleet...
Global threats, recent WannaCry ransom attack fuel awareness
Cybersecurity will increasingly become part of deal-vetting
Executives and investors are hiring an unlikely crowd to help them do deals: computer geeks.
Companies and investment funds are adding an extra layer of scrutiny to acquisitions by screening targets for cybersecurity risks, as...
Sony’s PlayStation VR headset.
There’s no getting around it: virtual reality has stalled out.
After years of gushing previews and bold corporate stage shows, reality seems to have virtual reality. It’s clunky, pricey and still mostly a curiosity. We know that will eventually change — the headsets will slim down, the prices...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during November’s APEC Summit in Peru. Photo from The Canadian Press
A new report on wireless broadband is out, and it may not leave readers cheering “USA! USA!” According to OpenSignal’s study, Mexico, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and...
Apple’s shares have become very oversold in the past two weeks as Mizuho and Pacific Crest downgraded the stock from Buy/Overweight to Neutral/Sector Weight, respectively, and tech stocks took a hit. Their main reason centered around iPhone 8 expectations being baked into the stock given their recent strength and...
Startup working with banks to engage potential investors
Funding to fuel expansion in North Asia, marketplace business
Reebonz Pte, Southeast Asia’s largest online luxury retailer, is planning to raise as much as $150 million to bolster its marketplace business and fund expansion in China, Japan and South Korea.
Reebonz has been...
The Dow jumping to a new all-time high as tech recovers with FANG back in the hunt. (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) Catch The Final Round at 4 p.m. with Jen Rogers and Yahoo Finance markets correspondent Nicole Sinclair.
Winners and losers
Let’s take a look at some of today’s winners and losers. Stocks...
In recent weeks, the stock market has been all about one story: the dominance of big-cap tech companies.
The FANG stocks — Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), and Google (GOOGL) — have now been renamed the FAAMG stocks — adding Apple (AAPL) and swapping in Microsoft (MSFT) for Netflix...
