Industrials

A French pilot has flown across the English Channel in an electric-powered plane, a journey considered an important symbolic step toward making electric flight viable in the long term.

It was a rough day for technology: The nation's biggest airline, its biggest stock exchange, and its most prominent business newspaper all suffered technology problems that upended service for large portions of time Wednesday.

Seattle, notorious for boom-and-bust cycles stretching back to the 19th century Alaska gold rush, is booming once again.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is announcing that the Pentagon will fund a new venture to develop cutting-edge electronics and sensors that can flex and stretch and could be built into clothing or the skins of ships and aircraft.

The Russian Federal Space Agency says the next manned trip to the International Space Station will be extended from the usual six hours to two days.

A California company has broken ground on a $30-million battery recycling plant in Nevada that federal officials say will be the first of its kind in the world.

The office has all the trappings of a high-tech startup.

American Airlines has stopped flights heading to Dallas, Chicago and Miami because of a computer-systems problem.

A Latvian computer code writer who helped create a virus that spread to more than a million computers worldwide may be returning home soon after pleading guilty to a federal charge in New York.

The Justice Department says federal law enforcement must now generally obtain search warrants before using secretive and intrusive cellphone technology.

United Technologies unveiled quarterly sales that fell 5% in the June period because of weakness in the Otis elevator unit and the negative effect of the strong dollar. Shares fell more than 5% in recent trading.

Schlumberger, one of the world's largest oilfield services companies, said it will acquire oilfield equipment maker Cameron International Corp in a deal valued at $14.8 billion.

The metals giant reported third-quarter adjusted earnings per share of seven cents, missing expectations by six cents. Revenue of $5.57 billion missed views for $5.65 billion. Shares of Alcoa dropped 4.27% after hours.

United Technologies Corp raised the lower end of its full-year adjusted earnings forecast and announced a $1.5 billion restructuring plan aimed at reducing costs, mainly through factory consolidation.

State-owned China National Chemical Corp has raised its offer to buy Syngenta AG by about $2 billion, to $44 billion, proposing a two-stage takeover of the agrochemical company, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.

2015 is being dubbed the year of the mega deal but motivation for CEOs to seal these deals is low to slow economic growth....

On a 2,700-acre estate in central New Jersey, a majestic mansion that heiress Doris Duke once called home may soon disappear.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she opposes construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, breaking her longstanding silence over a project criticized by environmentalists as a threat to the planet's climate.