Technology

  Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. knows it needs to get its new flagship smartphone right. Apart from making sure the gadget won’t cause bodily harm, the company packed it with a plethora of new features: taller, curved screens, encrypted facial recognition, deeper display colors, system-wide voice control and the ability to turn into a desktop computer. The Galaxy S8 comes ...

  Bloomberg Pinterest Inc. has started pursuing a segment of advertisers that may one day contribute a quarter of its revenue: small and medium-sized businesses. The company unveiled a new program, called Pinterest Propel, which provides special services for new advertisers unfamiliar with the way its site works. By committing to spend up to $100 a day on Pinterest ads, ...

  Bloomberg Up to one-third of British jobs could face automation in the next 15 years, but the technology will improve productivity and create new roles elsewhere, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The transportation and storage industry and manufacturing have the most roles at risk, the report showed. Education, health and social work are least likely to be affected due to ...

  Bloomberg A recent crash involving an Uber Technologies Inc. driverless car suggests autonomous software sometimes takes the same risks as the humans it may one day replace. The accident on Friday in Tempe, Arizona, caused no major injuries. Another human-driven car turning left failed to yield, hit the Uber car and flipped it on its side. After a short ...

  Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is making a dramatic change to the social network’s mobile application, letting people post pictures and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Dramatic, but unsurprising—it’s the fourth time the company has added such a feature to its apps. And it’s a tool that was invented by its smaller, newly public competitor: Snap Inc., whose Snapchat lets ...

  Bloomberg Density matters to Super Micro Computer Inc. To meet customer demands to take up less space, the maker of servers is reducing the number of cables inside its products, their structure revamped to make room for more processing power and memory. That’s putting the focus on improving designs for the computers that run networks, as the San Jose, ...

  Bloomberg Starship Technologies, the London-based company that has created six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots, will begin taking customers Domino’s pizzas in Germany and the Netherlands. Starship, launched in July 2014 by two former Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, will whisk pizzas to customers’ doors if they live within a one-mile radius of certain Dominos pizza shops in “select ...

  NEW YORK / AP The person who shares a news story on social media is more important than the story’s actual source in determining whether readers believe it, a study by the Media Insight Project has found. In a previous study, consumers said they paid greater heed to where the story originated. But the Media Insight Project, a collaboration ...

  Bloomberg Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is weighing whether to take a $6 billion investment backed by SoftBank Group Corp. that could dilute existing backers such as Apple Inc., people familiar with the matter say. If the deal goes through, the funding would be the single largest for a Chinese technology startup on record. But the Beijing-based company that ...

  Bloomberg Ericsson AB will book as much as 15 billion kronor ($1.7 billion) in extra costs in the first quarter as new Chief Executive Officer Borje Ekholm cuts back the wireless network maker after four straight quarters of declining revenue. Ekholm, who took over in January, is cutting costs and narrowing the company’s focus as he contends with contract ...