Bloomberg Five months after shaking hands with Apple Inc., retailer Kohl’s Corp. is starting to compete with the tech giant’s mobile-payment service Apple Pay. For Apple, the market leader of in-store mobile payments, moves like Kohl’s are becoming increasingly familiar. Over the summer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rolled out its own mobile-payment service nationwide and pharmacy chain CVS Health Corp. …

  Relaxnews Microsoft is to hold a major conference showcasing the future of Windows 10 in New York, on October 26, which fans can follow live online. One year after revealing its first laptop PC — a rival for Apple’s MacBook Pro — Microsoft could be set to cause a sensation in 2016 with an iMac-style all-in-one PC codenamed “Surface …

  Bloomberg Google just debuted a digital assistant, which it hopes to place inside smartphones, watches, cars and every other imaginable internet-connected device. It’s already hit a snag. The Alphabet Inc. division launched new smartphones last week with the artificially intelligent assistant deeply embedded. It also rolled out a speaker with the feature at its core and announced plans to …