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Ford Motor has agreed to invest $500 million in Rivian, an electric-car start-up that is widely seen as a potential rival to Tesla, Ford announced on Wednesday. Rivian, based in Plymouth, Mich., plans to begin producing a pickup truck and a sport utility vehicle by the end of next year. Both will be powered by […]

Work messaging platform Slack is taking the next step in filing to go public, the latest in several highly anticipated tech IPOs. In documents posted with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, Slack Technologies Inc. says it posted a loss of $138.9 million on revenue of $400 million in the fiscal year ended Jan. 31,

iPhone users have been urged to disable FaceTime after a bug was discovered that allows callers to listen in and see through front-facing cameras ― even if the person they’re trying to reach doesn’t pick up the call.  According to The Verge, the bug, which affects phones running 12.1.2, works like this: First, one party

SEATTLE — In the five years since Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s chief executive, he has transformed the company into a cloud computing leader. The quarter ending in March provided further evidence that the turnaround he has helmed shows little signs of abating. With its quarterly earnings released on Wednesday, Microsoft delivered a clean sweep for

Two-day delivery is going out of style. Interested in Amazon? Add Amazon as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Amazon news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Amazon, which hooked shoppers on getting just about anything shipped in two days, said this week that it will soon promise one-day delivery for

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and

Now all of Amazon’s investments over time have made it seemingly impregnable in numerous areas, from logistics and delivery to cloud computing. Wall Street is not complaining about Amazon anymore, and it has become one of the world’s most valuable public companies with a market capitalization of about $960 billion. “Uber, like Amazon, operates with

British opposition leaders are pressuring the government to act on climate change after weeks of protests put the issue at the heart of political debate. Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon on Sunday declared a “climate emergency” during her party’s conference in Edinburgh, saying she had been inspired by young activists. Sturgeon says “Scotland will lead

iPhone users looking to use the Group FaceTime feature won’t be able to just yet. That’s because Apple is reportedly delaying its fix for a bug on the app that allowed eavesdroppers to listen in on calls and even see through front-facing cameras. A software update to address the issue was expected to be rolled

The robocalls come when you are driving and they bother you at night. It doesn’t matter if you’re in bed or in a meeting. Here’s the worst news: There is really no way for you to stop them. I know this because for the past few years, I have been bombarded with robocalls alerting me