Commentary:The joint statement issued by the American and North Korean leaders after Tuesday’s Singapore summit is a shorter and weaker version of promises made by Kim Jong Un’s father and grandfather, writes James Dobbins, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state. One of the differences: “Trump and Kim have committed themselves to this effort earlier on in the process and more publicly than their predecessors did.”
Microsoft is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores, in a nascent challenge to Amazon's automated grocery shop, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Comcast offered $65 billion on Wednesday to lure Twenty-First Century Fox away from a merger with Walt Disney, setting up a bidding war between two of the largest U.S. media companies with its 20 percent higher offer.
The City of Chicago has selected billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s The Boring Company to build a high-speed underground commuter system from the Loop to O’Hare International Airport, one of the world’s busiest, media reported on Wednesday.
Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE has proposed a $10.7 billion financing plan and nominated eight board members in a drastic management overhaul, as it seeks to rebuild a business crippled by a U.S. supplier ban.
