The iPhone’s pioneering digital assistant, Siri, developed by Stanford University research offshoot SRI International and acquired by Apple in 2010, will no longer require its signature salutation to be summoned to action, it was learned Monday at Apple’s AAPL, -0.76% annual developers conference WWDC in Cupertino, Calif. Instead, according to…

The remote-work revolution gained unprecedented momentum at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic three-plus years ago, and now many companies are eager to bring their workers back to the office. The problem is that the employees often don’t want to come back. Employees — especially younger workers — appear to…

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday called for all sides to reach a resolution, when she was asked if the Biden administration might intervene in contract talks between union dockworkers at West Coast ports and their employers. “What we see as the best way to move forward is…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The offices of gene sequencing company Illumina Inc are shown in San Diego, California January 11, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Illumina Inc (NASDAQ:) filed an appeal late on Monday against an order by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which is demanding that the…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico on Monday pitched a series of tax incentives aimed at luring companies into investing in a business corridor that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is developing in a southern isthmus in hopes of competing with the Panama Canal. The finance ministry said companies that invest…

Investing.com — The dollar was little changed Monday after snapping a three-week win streak last week, but a surprisingly strong U.S. economy suggests it is too early to bet the bears may soon resume their grip on the greenback, Goldman Sachs said. The , which measures the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of…

By Kantaro Komiya and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s wages rose in April as major companies lifted pay at the fastest pace in three decades on workers’ increased demands for salaries to keep up with inflation, but households’ spending remained weak and underlined a patchy economic recovery. The April…

Global corporates are playing a vital role in the development and scaling of the circular economy. In the fight to curb plastic pollution and advance circular packaging, corporates are stepping up to drive action to innovate new ways to combat waste and to evolve their roles so they can do…

If you have traveled to Latin America recently, you may have noticed a prevalent trend. Servers instantly offer credit card readers everywhere from breezy beach tents in Tulum to high-rise restaurants in Sao Paulo. Pix, an instant payment platform created by the Bank of Brazil, is ubiquitous. Since launching in…

Shares of semiconductor firms since of the October lows have quietly led the financial markets higher. Buckle up, the best is yet to come. Executives at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) announced a week ago that mass production of next generation 3 nanometer chips will begin at its Taiwan campus. These…