Google has decided not to seek renewal of a Pentagon contract that had become the focus of internal debate around the use of the tech giant’s technology for military purposes.

The Seattle giant’s cloud-computing business offers a look inside its model for expanding—even when it means moving in on allies’ turf. Some partners praise the unit’s chief for straddling the line between friend and competitor.

One early result of GDPR, the EU’s strict new laws protecting personalized user data that took effect last week, is that more money is flowing to Google’s giant ad marketplace.

SoftBank’s tech-focused Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion in General Motors’s driverless-car unit, as the auto maker battles tech companies and startups in a race to commercialize autonomous vehicles.

Tesla was able to improve the braking distance of Model 3 cars by as much as 20 feet simply by wirelessly transmitting a software update to the vehicles.

Cathie Lesjak, a Hewlett-Packard veteran who as chief financial officer helped steer the company through one of the largest corporate breakups, plans to retire from HP in early 2019.

Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial reported their customer accounts may have been breached.

There has been a shift of power from Silicon Valley financiers to star entrepreneurs, who are increasingly wresting control of their companies from venture-capital backers and extracting huge pay packages tied to going public.

Millions of tiny stores dotting India’s villages and slums have a secret that makes them formidable retail rivals—even to giants like Walmart and Amazon.com.

Smartphone maker Xiaomi shot to success selling stylish but low-cost models in emerging markets, including at home in China. But can that formula work in the affluent markets of Europe?

Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos vowed to use his rocket startup to develop robotic rovers and perhaps human habitats on the moon’s surface, even if such projects fail to win financial support from the U.S. government.

Europe’s new privacy law took effect Friday, causing major U.S. news websites to suspend access across the region as data-protection regulators prepare to brandish their new enforcement powers.

Amazon said that one of its Echo home speakers recorded a private conversation without permission and sent it to a person in the owners’ contact list, an incident that raises questions about the security of such voice-operated devices.

Mark Zuckerberg apologized to EU lawmakers over the fake-news and privacy scandals engulfing Facebook, but rebuffed suggestions that the company has outsize market power and avoided responding to many difficult questions.

Sony wants to spend three more years readying its next videogame move, the head of the PlayStation business said—a slight slowdown in the six-to-seven-year update cycle for the console since the first one in 1994.

Samsung plans to put artificial-intelligence features and internet connectivity in all its products in an effort to transform its home appliances into an army of synced devices capable of fielding verbal commands.

The world’s two most valuable technology companies, Apple and Amazon, are shopping for cities in which to build new corporate campuses. But with one of them, you would hardly know it.

A unit of Taiwan’s contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group said it plans to raise $4.25 billion through an initial public offering in Shanghai, potentially marking China’s biggest IPO since 2015.

A company owned by Joel Zamel, an Israeli entrepreneur whose work has drawn the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller, formed a strategic partnership with a data firm for President Donald Trump’s campaign in a joint bid to win business from the U.S. government and other clients after the 2016 election, people familiar with the matter say.

The operator of the world’s largest technology fund—which holds a 21% stake in Flipkart—had been delaying a decision to participate in Walmart’s $16 billion deal to take control of India’s largest e-commerce company.

Gary Norcross of Fidelity National Information Services was the highest-paid software executive in 2017 at $29.1 million.

Amazon cultivated an image as a customer-friendly company in part by making it easy for shoppers to send back items they don’t want. Then it started banning customers who return too many items.

Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the heart of Facebook’s data scandal, is liquidating assets and has asked employees to vacate its London office.

Top European lawmakers are set to interrogate Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s handling of alleged user-data misuse and election interference on the platform.

The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline of a deal that would save imperiled Chinese telecom giant ZTE, as the two sides move closer to resolving their trade dispute.

By focusing on sleeker designs and high-performance game machines, HP managed to boost revenue and gobble market share from smaller competitors even as the PC market shrank.

The possible arrival of Amazon’s second headquarters in East Boston is triggering both hopes and apprehension in a neighborhood already dealing with fallout from surging costs in a growing city.

Artificial intelligence in medicine promises to alert us to disease or a medical emergency before it happens—if only we can navigate the pitfalls.

Welcome to the world of dropshipping, where entrepreneurs use social-media ads and hip virtual storefronts to flip merchandise from online marketplaces like Alibaba’s AliExpress to customers often paying premium prices.

A trade group representing news organizations raised concerns to Facebook that the social media company’s rules on political ads are overly broad and could affect their ability to promote stories.

The electric-car maker is the latest company to embrace flatness, but some researchers think it’s time to cut “sandwich” bosses a bit of slack.

A look inside ZTE’s Axon 3 smartphone reveals how much the telecom giant depends on U.S. technology: 60% of the electronic components come from U.S. companies including Qualcomm, SanDisk and SkyWorks.

Uber’s chief product officer, Jeff Holden, who helped develop Uber Pool and more recently oversaw the company’s flying-taxi initiative, has told colleagues his last day is Thursday.

PayPal agreed to buy European fintech startup iZettle for around $2.2 billion, a move that will catapult it into hundreds of thousands of retailers around the world and sets up a showdown with Jack Dorsey’s Square.

Microsoft is making its first videogame controller designed for people with disabilities, the latest in a growing number of industry efforts to accommodate players who face challenges seeing, hearing and directing the on-screen action.