Bloomberg Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. is opening a store in Paris and planning for more shops in France, Spain and Italy, testing the appetite of consumers in developed markets as its executives consider a US xpansion. “Every morning I think about the US market and when we’ll launch there,” Xiaomi Senior Vice President Wang Xiang, who heads global operations, ...

Bloomberg Sony Corp.’s new chief executive officer is interested in taking the Japanese electronics maker in an entirely new direction: moving objects. Kenichiro Yoshida, who took over in April, said that he’s always wanted to work on “moving objects,” adding that it’s far too early to say whether Sony will enter the space. “Through our semiconductors, we’re actually already a ...

Bloomberg Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gave a forecast for the current quarter that topped some Wall Street estimates, signalling that it’s benefiting from recent cost cuts and a push into software and computer services aimed at lessening its dependence on hardware. Profit excluding certain costs will be 35 cents to 39 cents a share in the fiscal third quarter, the ...