Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest flagship smartphone isn’t the antidote to a stock slump that’s wiped more than $60 billion from the technology giant’s market value since November. That’s the thinking of investors like Sat Duhra, who helps manage $371 billion at Janus Henderson Investors. His fund has reduced holdings of Samsung and its South Korean industry peers amid concern ...

Bloomberg German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG is teaming up with SAIC Motor Corp Ltd., China’s largest automaker by sales volume, to benefit from the quickly growing demand for electric cars in the country. Infineon and SAIC will set up a joint company to produce power modules for Chinese manufacturers of electric cars and plug-in hybrids, jointly investing at least $122 ...

Bloomberg Hyundai Motor Co. warned it may rethink how many vehicles it builds in the US, joining the world’s largest automakers in speaking out against US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on steel and aluminum imports. “Changes to the existing tariff structure could negatively impact our current US production and further expansion,” Jim Trainor, a Hyundai spokesman, said in an email. ...

Bloomberg In four years, Lenovo Group Ltd. went from would-be Apple Inc. challenger to an also-ran in smartphones and datacenter servers. Now it’s got a comeback plan, but some investors don’t buy it. China’s erstwhile tech darling, which lost its perch atop the PC market to HP Inc. in 2017, has shed two-thirds of its value since hitting a 15-year ...

Bloomberg A bright future lies ahead for OLED. When that starts, and how long it lasts, is less clear. Organic light-emitting diode screens have been touted as the future of smartphones because they’re crisper and easier on batteries than their liquid-crystal predecessors. In 2017, as Apple Inc. prepared its OLED iPhone X, suppliers led by Samsung Electronics Co. rushed to ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is embracing open-source software in the race to get its voice-based Alexa digital assistant into cars ahead of Google. Amazon engineers are working with Nuance Communications Inc. and Voicebox Technologies Corp. to write code that makes in-vehicle apps compatible with several speech-recognition technologies, eliminating the need for developers to make multiple versions. A working group was set ...

Bloomberg Venmo’s app succeeded in becoming a ubiquitous way for young people to send money back and forth. It has been less successful at creating a sustainable business. Dan Schulman, chief executive officer of Venmo parent company PayPal Holdings Inc., said that while it hasn’t happened yet, the app will make money someday. “I have full confidence that we will ...

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co. is taking its driverless delivery trials to South Beach to continue testing consumer response to receiving pizzas and packages from the back of a robot ride. The automaker is deploying a handful of delivery vehicles on the clogged byways of Miami and Miami Beach to serve up Domino’s pizza, groceries and other cargo. They’ll be dressed ...

Bloomberg Russia is sending more natural gas to Europe than ever before as a blast of Arctic air lifted demand for heat and electricity, underlining the region’s dependence on its eastern neighbour. The freeze severely tested Europe’s energy network over the past week. Spot gas prices tripled to a record, drawing in more Russian supplies by pipeline and prompting a ...

TOKYO / Reuters ExxonMobil Corp has declared force majeure on exports from its Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which has been shut since a powerful earthquake, an industry source familiar with the matter said. At least 31 people were killed by the 7.5 magnitude quake, and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has declared a state of emergency across ...