Bloomberg The first augmented-reality glasses with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be shown next week at CES in Las Vegas—manufactured by a 75-employee company rather than the e-commerce giant’s growing devices division. Vuzix Corp. will show off a pair of smart glasses that can talk to Amazon.com Inc.’s voice-activated digital assistant and display information to the wearer’s field of view, …

Bloomberg International Business Machines Corp. and Comcast Corp.’s venture arm will become the largest supporters of an investment fund for startups that help corporations use blockchain, the digital ledger that’s become a hot technology. The startup accelerator, called MState, plans to invest $25,000 to $50,000 apiece in five or six companies over the next six months, co-founder Rob Bailey said. …

Bloomberg In the future of transportation, what would you get if you mixed the business models of Tesla Inc., Google and Samsung Electronics Co. with the budget of the world’s fifth-biggest automaker? Youngcho Chi is about to find out. Hired from Samsung, Chi has assembled a team of 200 strategists and researchers at Hyundai Motor Co., the 50-year-old South Korean …