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Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that it would buy U.S. cloud services company Joyent Inc. for an undisclosed sum, underscoring its willingness to snap up outside companies as it beefs up the software and services around its core mobile-phone business.

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China’s homegrown competitor to Uber Technologies Inc. has raised $7 billion in its latest fundraising effort, giving it a host of powerful allies including Apple Inc. to fend off the global ride-hailing champion locally.

China’s homegrown competitor to Uber Technologies Inc. has raised $7 billion in its latest fundraising effort, giving it a host of powerful allies including Apple Inc. to fend off the global ride-hailing champion locally.

China’s homegrown competitor to Uber Technologies Inc. has raised $7 billion in its latest fundraising effort, giving it a host of powerful allies including Apple Inc. to fend off the global ride-hailing champion locally.

ASML Holding NV, which provides chip-manufacturing equipment to companies like Intel Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., has agreed to buy Taiwan-based pattern verification systems company Hermes Microvision Inc. for about 100 billion New Taiwan dollars (about US$3.09 billion).

ASML Holding NV, which provides chip-manufacturing equipment to companies like Intel Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., has agreed to buy Taiwan-based pattern verification systems company Hermes Microvision Inc. for about 100 billion New Taiwan dollars (about US$3.09 billion).

A search team on Wednesday found the body of a 2-year-old boy who was dragged into the water and drowned by an alligator the previous evening at a Walt Disney World Resort, concluding a 17-hour search and rescue effort, authorities said

Viacom Inc. controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone said he doesn’t trust the company’s board of directors or its Chairman and Chief Executive Philippe Dauman.

Music streaming service Rhapsody International Inc. will rebrand as Napster, donning the name of a peer-to-peer music-sharing service best known for its court battles and shutdown.

Music streaming service Rhapsody International Inc. will rebrand as Napster, donning the name of a peer-to-peer music-sharing service best known for its court battles and shutdown.

Music streaming service Rhapsody International Inc. will rebrand as Napster, donning the name of a peer-to-peer music-sharing service best known for its court battles and shutdown.

Last year, Ford Motor Co. hung its shingle outside what it calls the Ford Research and Innovation Center, Palo Alto, as it seeks to embrace technology’s disruption of its 100-plus-year-old business.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign isn’t considering primary rival Bernie Sanders as her running mate, but is actively looking at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose populist politics line up closely with Sanders, people familiar with the process said.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) and a group of Democratic allies took over the Senate floor on Wednesday to denounce congressional inaction in the face of mass shootings, including Sunday’s massacre in Orlando, Fla., that have wrenched the country in recent years and to push for a legislative compromise that has long proved elusive.

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision brightens the outlook for gold, with one analyst pointing to $1,300 as a “new floor” for prices.

Last year, Ford Motor Co. hung its shingle outside what it calls the Ford Research and Innovation Center, Palo Alto, as it seeks to embrace technology’s disruption of its 100-plus-year-old business.

Last year, Ford Motor Co. hung its shingle outside what it calls the Ford Research and Innovation Center, Palo Alto, as it seeks to embrace technology’s disruption of its 100-plus-year-old business.

Pathfinder Health Innovations CEO Jeff Blackwood says “there’s a motivation of conscience” and blames the policies of Gov. Sam Brownback.

Supporters of Great Britain leaving the European Union are using scare tactics to pull ahead in the polls, says Brett Arends.

About five weeks before committing the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history at an Orlando nightclub, Omar Mateen visited a gun shop in this Florida city near his home and attempted to purchase body armor and bulk ammunition, the shop’s co-owner said Wednesday.

For-profit college overseer ACICIS is under fire from the Department of Education.

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision brightens the outlook for gold, with one analyst pointing to $1,300 as a “new floor” for prices.

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But even as the U.S. yield curve has recently reached its flattest since November 2007, one interest-rate strategist argued that compared with previous tightening cycles, this time around the curve is actually much steeper.