Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG’s Swiss unit began life as a legally independent company, enabling the bank to pursue plans to sell part of the business in a public offering next year. In carving out a separate entity, Credit Suisse also fulfills a regulatory requirement to make banks easier to break up in a crisis or insolvency. Credit Suisse ...

  AP Virtual reality, what’s up with that? If you are curious about this highly buzzed high-tech form of entertainment but don’t feel like plunking down $1,000 or more on sophisticated hardware, just visit one of a slew of amusement-park-type rides popping up around the world. These experiences let you shoot aliens while riding a real-life roller coaster , cook ...

  Reuters Facebook Inc, facing withering criticism for failing to stem a flood of phony news articles in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, is taking a series of steps to weed out hoaxes and other types of false information, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. Facebook has long insisted that it is a technology company ...