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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s chief executive, Daniel Zhang, is devolving power to the heads of the company’s business units to become more agile in tackling rising challenges and potentially open the way for spinoffs, people familiar with the matter said.

Whether buying computer chips directly from manufacturers, reconfiguring cars, or producing them with parts missing, automakers are having to get creative to cope with the global shortage of semiconductors.

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New data from Adobe tracking sales since the start of November found consumers increased online spending by around 20% compared to the same period last year.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Samsung announced Tuesday the company would be building a $17 billion semiconductor chip factory in Taylor, Texas

FOX Business' Stuart Varney, during his latest "My Take" on "Varney & Co.," said Samsung Electronics Co. picking Texas to build a roughly $17 billion chip-making plant is “another win for Republicans.”

Samsung plans to build a roughly $17 billion chip-making plant in Taylor, Texas, according to people familiar with the matter, a mega investment by the South Korean tech giant, as the Biden administration pushes for an expansion of U.S. semiconductor production.

Elizabeth Holmes took jurors into the Theranos Inc. lab Monday during her continued testimony at her criminal-fraud trial, describing ways the startup sought to reduce errors in lab testing and miniaturize traditionally bulky blood-testing machines.

Sen. Josh Hawley took on Big Tech for the way it treated Kyle Rittenhouse, who was found not guilty on all counts Friday.

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are currently the only cloud service providers capable of meeting the requirements of the Department of Defense's Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. The agency anticipates contract awards will be distributed in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022.

Ford and manufacturer GlobalFoundaries (GF) have announced a partnership to tackle the growing demand for computer chips during a significant shortage that has stalled car sales nationwide.

Starbucks Corp's newest cafe lacks one element most customers are used to seeing: cashiers.

Tesla founder Elon Musk noted Tuesday the electric car maker would contribute a massive sum in federal tax revenue in the coming years amid an ongoing dispute over a Democrat-led push to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

Several major websites, apps, and services, including Spotify, Discord, and Snapchat, experienced brief service interruptions on Tuesday afternoon during a global Google Cloud outage.

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted the company’s plans last month to build a virtual reality “metaverse” to supplant the internet, he proclaimed that users of this platform will be able to do “almost anything” they could imagine.

A tourism video ad by Iceland on Thursday spoofed Mark Zuckerberg and his unveiling last month of the virtual world he expects people will work, play and interact with each other while wearing a virtual reality headset.

A group of Amazon.com Inc. workers in New York City's Staten Island has withdrawn a petition to hold a union election, a spokeswoman for the U.S. National Labor Relations Board confirmed on Friday.

A Blue Origin astronaut who flew on a Blue Origin rocket with William Shatner has died in a New Jersey plane crash.

Japan's Toshiba Corp outlined plans on Friday to break up into three independent companies by spinning off two core businesses - its energy and infrastructure business as well as its device and storage business.

Four astronauts safely returned on Monday from a record six-month NASA science mission aboard the International Space Station, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico after a daylong flight home.