Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA followed competitor SocieteGenerale SA in strengthening its capital buffers, even though slower investment banking activity weighed on second-quarter earnings. Profit at the large clients business that houses the securities unit fell 20 percent after the bank saw a continued drop in margins in a sluggish market. A decline in overall net income was in line with ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc generated less than half of its total quarterly revenue from sales of the iPhone for the first time since 2012 — a sign the company is entering life beyond its flagship product. While Apple reported a record $11.5 billion in sales of services in the fiscal third quarter, and demonstrated strong performances from wearables such as the ...

Bloomberg A voice software tech developer is suing Amazon.com, saying the e-commerce giant infringed on patents when developing software for the Alexa digital assistant. VB Assets LLC, which owns the rights to some of the technology developed by voice software pioneer VoiceBox Technologies, said in a lawsuit filed in Delaware federal court that Amazon infringed on six of its patents ...