French luxury giants dive into Silicon ValleyPARIS: Steve Jobs may have been a tech genius, but he clearly didn’t care much for fashion. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has followed in his footsteps, sporting a plain grey T-shirt every day for yea...
US firms seeking Trump’s steel tariff waiver face a backlashWASHINGTON: US companies seeking to be exempted from President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported steel are accusing American steel manufacturers of spreading inaccurate and misleading information, and...
A German export hit losing favour at homeNina Lorea Kley urgently needs young people to train as vehicle builders at her company’s factories in northern and eastern Germany. She has enough orders and money to hire 20 this summer but can only...
How BP found shale profits with ‘crystal ball’ oilfield technologyIn the pine forests of eastern Texas, oilfield workers equipped with virtual-reality goggles are helping BP’s shale business turn a profit for the first time. Thousands of automated wells feed data on...
UK’s Hunt welcomes China’s offer of talks on post-Brexit trade dealBritish Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Monday he welcomed China's offer of talks on a post-Brexit trade deal as he visited Beijing to try to strengthen ties before next year's divorce from Europe....