Google's informal appeal against a French order to apply the so-called "right to be forgotten" to all of its global Internet services and domains, not just those in Europe, has been rejected. ...

The new car sales in Europe grew 11% in August, which is the second biggest gain this year as the economic recovery led to a boost in SUV sales from BMW, Citroen, Mercedes-Benz and Renault. The European ...

The preliminary Caixin China manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to a six-and-a-half-year low of 47.0 in September, below the 47.5 forecast in a Reuters poll. This compares with a final ...

eBay has launched a new membership program in Germany similar to that of its competitor’s Amazon Prime program, reports CNET. The program, called eBay Plus, is a subscription service that offers ...

Although most mid-sized manufacturers still expect to grow their revenues this year and next, recent survey results reflect diminished expectations compared to recent years. The latest Purchasing ...

IRAN plans to buy Airbus and Boeing passenger planes through long-term payment agreements once a nuclear accord with world powers is implemented, the transport minister said. Iran desperately wants ...

A campaign to boycott "substandard and expensive" Iranian-made cars has fired up social media in the Islamic republic, where its supporters have been accused of anti-revolutionary treason. Iranians ...

Today, more efficient use of resources has helped in productively, especially in the manufacturing segment. Machines have aided factory workers and supervisors with precise shop floor data management, ...

The rise of the machines in the workplace has US and European experts predicting massive unemployment and tumbling wages. Not in Japan, where robots are welcomed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ...

The robot reads a barcode and extends its long yellow arm toward bins holding 300 different pills. Tiny fingers pick pills from some of the containers, using lasers to detect the size, shape and color ...