Google redesigns mobile search app with personalized ‘feed’
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its search app on mobile phones to include a personalized feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more direct competit…
Toshiba says it again is blocking Western Digital access to chip JV
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp said it resumed blocking access by Western Digital Corp to data at their memory chip joint venture, intensifying its dispute with the U.S. firm over the Japanese company’s planned sale of the chip business.
China’s CITIC Agri Fund buys Dow corn seed assets for $1.1 billion
(This July 12 story correct third paragraph to say assets are being sold to meet conditions for Brazil antitrust regulators, not U.S. regulators)
TV networks try new tricks to woo pay TV partners as ratings slide
(Reuters) – Sliding ratings and a continued drop in cable subscribers has led programmers such as Viacom Inc, Univision Communications Inc and AMC Networks Inc to invent new ways to justify their worth to pay TV providers.
GM joins other carmakers investing in self-driving startup Nauto
(Reuters) – General Motors Co and Japan’s Softbank Group Corp are among the latest investors in Nauto, a Silicon Valley startup developing software for self-driving vehicles.
Reckitt cuts the mustard with $4.2 billion food business sale
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. spices maker McCormick & Co Inc has won the battle to buy Reckitt Benckiser Group’s North American food business, paying a higher than expected $4.2 billion to add extra seasonings and sauces.
Oil dips on rising U.S. crude inventories, high OPEC supplies
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Wednesday after a rise in U.S. crude inventories and ongoing high supplies from producer club OPEC revived concerns of a fuel supply overhang.
Emerging Asia propels world stocks to new high
LONDON (Reuters) – A weak U.S. dollar combined with upbeat Chinese data to lift emerging market and Asian shares to levels not seen in more than two years and global stocks to an all-time high on Wednesday.
Discovery and Scripps in merger talks: sources
(Reuters) – Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive Inc are in merger talks, revisiting a deal that was scrapped three years ago, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
Amazon makes cloud contract more customer-friendly as rivals loom
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has done away with a controversial clause in its cloud computing contracts that prohibited customers from suing the company over patent infringement, according to an updated version of the Amazon Web Services c…
