Tokyo / AFP Some of the world’s top trading firms have agreed to build a faster data transmission network between Chicago and Tokyo, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that would accelerate trading between two of the major centers of finance. The roster of firms in the joint venture — dubbed Go West — includes ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. researchers want to give patients and doctors a new tool in the quest to find cancers earlier: web searches. Lung cancer can be detected a year prior to current methods of diagnosis in more than one-third of cases by analyzing a patient’s internet searches for symptoms and demographic data that put them at higher risk, according ...

  Bloomberg Snap Inc.’s plan for selling Spectacles depends largely on hype and scarcity. The company began distributing the $130 Snapchat sunglasses, each with a built-in camera for shooting video, in a yellow pop-up vending machine. Chris Chavez @Gamercore I’ll lose my mind if they sell out of @Spectacles. @Snapchat @Snap https://t.co/CtgTxCzmsZ Twitter: Chris Chavez on Twitter The plan seems ...