Technology

Shares in Google parent Alphabet plunged more than eight per cent on Wednesday after Apple executive Eddy Cue testified in federal court that Google’s search traffic on Apple devices declined last month for the first time in over two decades.

Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd. is betting on gold to lift its returns this year as investors pile into the asset to shelter their wealth during the global trade war.

The bigger-is-better adage is one that the world’s biggest cruise lines — Royal Caribbean, MSC, Carnival Cruise Line and Norwegian Cruise Line among them — continue to embrace, as one mega-size cruise ship after another rolls down the pipeline on its way from the shipyard to the sea.

Palantir Technologies Inc. shares slid by the most in nearly a year after its financial results and projections failed to live up to investors’ lofty expectations.

Figment is looking for acquisition targets, potentially extending a flurry of dealmaking in the digital-assets space triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto agenda.

General Fusion Inc., a Canadian startup backed by Jeff Bezos, is making a plea to investors after raising more than US$300 million to develop a system that would harness the power of the stars. 

BCE Inc. is launching a new tech services brand called Ateko which unifies recently acquired tech companies FX Innovation, HGC Technologies and CloudKettle under a single umbrella.

An activist investor is escalating a campaign against Information Services Corp. and will extend the deadline for a mini-tender offer that seeks to buy as much as 15 per cent of the Canadian database company. 

Apple Inc. and General Motors Co. are selling bonds Monday, testing the investment grade debt market. Their borrowings will be a barometer of investors’ appetite for bonds from companies with profits under pressure from President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive.

Jim Tuchler, a Chicago-area retailer, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have a lot in common these days.

Apple Inc. shares have clawed back a good portion of the ground they lost in the historic tariff-induced selloff last month, but that doesn’t mean investors are in the clear.

U.S. President Donald Trump first set his sights on Canada and Greenland’s mineral resources. Now he’s eyeing the global seabed that holds vast troves of critical metals for green technologies but is controlled by a United Nations-affiliated organization. 

OpenAI has rolled back ChatGPT to an earlier version of the AI model after a new update displayed 'overly supportive but disingenuous' behaviour, a quirk the tech firm describes as 'uncomfortable' and 'unsettling' for users.

Visa Inc.’s fiscal second-quarter earnings beat analysts’ estimates as spending on its payment network remained resilient despite macroeconomic uncertainties.

Bitcoin has surged past gold and tech stocks alike in April, rekindling the debate over whether the largest cryptocurrency serves as a refuge from market turmoil such as the strife triggered by sweeping U.S. tariffs.