Photo The offices of Gawker Media in New York. Univision won an auction for the company this week with a bid of $ 135 million. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times. Gawker.com, the irreverent website whose wry, conversational ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber, the world’s largest ride-hailing network, has long envisioned a future of self-driving cars. Now that future could extend to the trucking industry. On Thursday, Uber announced it had acquired Otto, a 90-person start-up focused on developing ...

The broader industry is in better shape, as well. The revenues of a group of eight large turbine makers, including Vestas, grew 17 percent last year to €27 billion, according to David Vos, a renewable energy analyst at Barclays in ...

“I don’t just expect things to unfold, or think, ‘Well, now I’ve got it made,’ because there’s always a turn just ahead of you and you don’t know what’s around that corner,” she said. Opportunity, but Also Anxieties On the ...

Photo Chuck Robbins, the chief of Cisco Systems. The company projects flat quarterly revenue. Credit Frederic J. Brown/A.F.P. — Getty Images Cisco Systems, one of the world’s largest makers of networking gear, said on Wednesday that it would cut about ...

Photo Video ads will show up in a silent, GIF-like format within Pinterest’s feed, and they will play with sound once clicked. Credit Pinterest Pinterest is finally taking the plunge that many other tech companies already have: It has started ...

Photo For many people, social media has become an icky sludgefest of inanities, trolling and adolescent behavior. So it is not all that often nowadays that you hear social media being described as a place that inspires the warm-and-fuzzies. But ...

COOKING with fire is a technique dating to our prehistoric ancestors, but today it can feel high tech with the many apps that take the guesswork out of grilling. Cooking starts with a recipe, and one of the most sumptuous ...

Q. My wife and I have used Apple’s Numbers program to open and edit Microsoft Excel files. But how can Excel subsequently be used to open and edit the same file after it’s been opened in Numbers? A. When a ...

Benham was built a century ago as a coal mining camp by a subsidiary of International Harvester, which mined the nearby hillsides, extracting coal to make steel. Today, the signs of coal’s decline are everywhere. The old company store is ...