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Air France-KLM downbeat on prospects for ‘difficult’ 2017

  Bloomberg Air France-KLM Group Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marc Janaillac delivered a downbeat assessment of the carrier’s prospects for 2017, saying it faces ‘difficult’ times in the year ahead amid rising oil prices and an ongoing struggle to rein in expenses. Weak margins combined with high debt remain the greatest challenges to Europe’s biggest airline, Janaillac said in an address ...

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Smart windshields: The next ad frontier

  Bloomberg The next frontier in digital advertising may be your car’s windshield. Automakers, technology companies and glass manufacturers are teaming up to turn the display that graces the front of an iPhone into the windshield of a car — one that can show ads, directions and vehicle information to the person behind the wheel. The advent of connected cars ...

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Wearable sensors that are ‘check engine’ light for health

  WASHINGTON / AP A next step for smart watches and fitness trackers? Wearable gadgets gave a Stanford University professor an early warning that he was getting sick before he ever felt any symptoms of Lyme disease. Geneticist Michael Snyder never had Lyme’s characteristic bulls-eye rash. But a smart watch and other sensors charted changes in Snyder’s heart rate and ...

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