Federal Reserve Vice Chair Stanley Fischer’s decision to resign in October with nine months remaining on his term could mean the potential is high for central-bank policy to be reshaped much sooner than many investors expected. Fischer’s departure will leave four of the seven seats on the Fed Board of Governors vacant, and that doesn’t include the one held by …

Bloomberg It’s been a busy week for Apple Inc. While Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook showed off the 10th anniversary iPhone in California, his lieutenants worked half a world away on what may become the company’s largest deal ever. Apple is in talks to invest about $3 billion in Toshiba Corp.’s memory chips business as part of a consortium led …

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp., working with chipmaker Intel Corp., is offering a cloud-computing service with more powerful encryption to secure data from hackers—and protect it from secret government data-gathering. Called Azure confidential computing, the technology encrypts data while it is in use—which is when most security breaches occur, according to Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich. The new product works by …