On June 11, for the first time in history, Foxconn Technology Group held an investor relations conference for its flagship company. That’s the good news. The bad news is what the moment portends: The world’s largest electronics manufacturer is about to be left without a CEO. It took founder Terry Gou’s pending departure from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. to ...

Germany’s famed autobahns have lost an important source of funding. Their new management hoped the money would help them to ease congestion and restore the roads to their former glory. Historically free of charge, the highways are widely viewed as a symbol of freedom. The absence of speed limits on much of the country’s 13,000-kilometer network is part of the ...

Bloomberg Walmart Inc came to dominate retailing through its mastery of logistics—the complicated choreography of getting goods from farm or factory to the consumer. But even the world’s biggest store doesn’t make money selling its wares online in the US, largely due to runaway shipping costs. So Walmart is turning to robots. Earlier this month, Walmart’s US chief Greg Foran ...