Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc announced a new lineup of televisions running its smart Fire TV operating system, including the first sets it has sold in Europe. The retail and technology giant says it’s working with manufacturers and retail partners to bring more than 15 Fire TV devices to market over the next year. They include JVC-branded TVs bound for Currys PC …

Bloomberg Consumers are worried machines by Amazon and Google are eavesdropping on them at home, but that’s not stopping purchases. Despite increasing concerns about “passive listening” and privacy risks, more people are buying smart speakers like Amazon.com Inc’s Echo and the Google Home, according to a Capgemini Research Institute report. Almost half of the survey’s 12,000 respondents who live in …

Bloomberg A Chinese oil contractor halted work on an expansion project in Venezuela because it hasn’t been paid, underscoring the difficulties for the Nicolas Maduro regime even at energy ventures backed by allies. China Huanqiu Contracting and Engineering Corporation, an affiliate of government-run China National Petroleum Corp., (CNPC) notified the Sinovensa joint venture it has suspended work to expand a crude …