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Chinese Companies Open Checkbooks to Acquire European Tech

It was facing a broad slowdown in demand in 2015 when San’an Optoelectronics, based in the eastern Chinese city of Xiamen, canceled a large order at the last minute. The decision sent Aixtron’s share price crashing. By May of this ...

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Tech Tip: What to Do if You Have a Samsung Galaxy Note 7

Q. Which Samsung Galaxy phones are affected by the battery problems? A. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 device is the only model currently involved in the battery situation, and the company says it has stopped selling that version of the device. ...

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Your Money: Buying a Mattress Online Was Easy. Now, About the Return.

Still, many things happened during the return process that I never could have predicted. It’s not practical for individual consumers to recompress their beds, shove them in the original boxes and hand them back over to UPS or FedEx, though ...

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Twitter Live Stream of ‘Thursday Night Football’ Reveals Delay-of-Game Flaw

Photo Marquise Goodwin caught a touchdown pass during the first half of the Jets-Bills game, which was shown live on Twitter. Credit Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images In the debut of an N.F.L. plan to live stream “Thursday Night Football” games on ...

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Ted Cruz Fights Internet Directory’s Transfer; Techies Say He Just Doesn’t Get It

Photo Senator Ted Cruz at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Cruz, who once led a government shutdown in his efforts to defund President Obama’s health care law, ...

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Concern Over Colin Powell’s Hacked Emails Becomes a Fear of Being Next

She said Mr. Powell’s emails had revealed him, a normally stoic public official, to be just as gossipy as everyone else, and added that the gossip, not classified information, was what people feared becoming public. On Capitol Hill, Senator Richard ...

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Tech Tip: How to Manage Your Windows Drivers

Q. What are drivers? I get a message on my Windows screen that says I need to update my drivers. Do I need to do this? A. Device drivers, also just known as drivers, are basically little pieces of software ...

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Bits: Daily Report: Video Is Everywhere and Regulators Have Noticed

Photo Mock-ups of the new Twitter live-streaming app for Apple TV. Credit Twitter I screen, you screen, we all live on video screens. Companies and governments keep taking notice, and are scrambling to catch up with the ways we and ...

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Autopilot Cited in Death of Chinese Tesla Driver

Photo A Tesla Model S at an auto show in Beijing in April. News of a fatal crash involving a Tesla in China will renew questions about when the company should disclose information about accidents in cars equipped with its ...

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Sinosphere: Chinese Tycoon Behind Grindr Will Pay $1.14 Billion in Divorce

BEIJING — Divorce can take a toll. For the Chinese tycoon behind the gay dating app Grindr, that toll comes to $ 1.14 billion. Zhou Yahui, a Chinese internet mogul and billionaire, will have to transfer nearly 300 million shares ...

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