Business

News Hour: Software company Qualtrics has raised $180 million from venture capital firms in a funding round the company hopes will sustain it until it launches its initial public offering. The new funding values Qualtrics at...

News Hour: Ride-services company Lyft has raised $600 million in fresh funding, fuel for the company’s growth as it continues to compete fiercely with larger rival Uber Technologies Inc. Lyft said on Tuesday it closed the...

News Hour: Qualcomm has moved on the offensive in its legal battle with Apple with a countersuit claiming the iPhone maker breached agreements and encouraged regulatory attacks worldwide on the US computer chip maker. In a...

News Hour: The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport has given the ride-hailing app company Uber a nod to implement its pilot service in the country, Uber Vietnam said on Tuesday. Earlier, Uber’s proposal to conduct a pilot...

News Hour: Prices for goods at the factory gate in China jumped in March, the government said Wednesday, in a positive sign of strengthening demand for the world’s second-largest economy. The producer price index (PPI) rose...

News Hour: Toshiba faced a looming deadline on Tuesday to publish a long-overdue earnings report with the loss-hit industrial giant’s shares at risk of being yanked from the Tokyo stock exchange. One of Japan’s best-known firms,...

News Hour: A cyber attack on Union Bank of India last July began after an employee opened an email attachment releasing malware that allowed hackers to steal the state-run bank’s data, the Wall Street Journal reported...

News Hour: Volvo Cars would suffer if the United States enacts taxes on imported goods, even as the company prepares to hire up to 4,000 workers for a new plant in South Carolina, the head of...

News Hour: U.S. wireless carrier AT&T Inc said on Monday it would buy Straight Path Communications Inc, a holder of licenses to wireless spectrum, for $1.25 billion in an all-stock deal. The No.2 U.S. carrier said...

News Hour: India’s top e-commerce firm Flipkart has raised $1.4 billion in its biggest fundraising to date as it takes on U.S. tech giant Amazon.com Inc for a larger share of the country’s burgeoning online retail...