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SAN FRANCISCO — A year ago, many investors had given up on Apple, whose stock price had fallen more than 30 percent from its 2015 peak.

StrongArm Technologies, a start-up company in Brooklyn, makes “ergo-skeletons” that look a bit like futuristic versions of the back support belts that warehouse workers often wear.Sensors embedded in the devices monitor a worker’s movements, and artificial intelligence software uses that information to suggest rest, stretching or posture changes — an automated safety coach for preventing back injuries.StrongArm, a fledgling outfit with just 20 employees, is one of a new wave of start-ups making all sorts of devices that offer a glimpse of the future for the manufacturing of high-tech hardwa

For months, Uber has paid a public price for some of the questionable tactics it has used to conquer the transportation industry.

Google has launched a cool new internet thing.

SAN FRANCISCO — There are video games that go viral overnight, causing people to coop themselves up in their homes for days to play.But the opposite has happened with Pokémon Go, a free smartphone game that has soared to the top of the download charts: It has sent people into streets and parks, onto beaches and even 

“Open sesame!” the magical phrase that reveals a hidden treasure, was once the stuff of legend and fairy tales, but today it’s been replaced by “Hello, Siri,” “Alexa,” or “Ok, Google” as a way to instantly unlock the riches of the internet.Earlier this month on the exhibit floor of CES 2017(link is external), the showplace for what’s next in gadgets and gizmos, manufacturers showed off an expanding array of ways to use voice control to run com

At the age of 21, David Pakman started a little Massachusetts community radio talk program. While the young broadcaster got his show syndicated on a few public radio stations, it was a YouTube channel he began in 2009, “The David Pakman Show,” that opened up his progressive political commentary to a whole new digital audience. The show has since amassed 353,000 subscribers, and roughly half of its revenue now comes from the ads that play before his videos.

Once you get home with your smartphone or tablet, chances are you connect to your Wi-Fi network to access the internet.

 The always-connected, ubiquitous internet has transformed the music business. For the first time ever, streaming music platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music have generated the majority of the music industry’s revenue in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Association of America(link is external) (RIAA).In 2016, estimated retail revenues for recorded music grew by 11.4 percent to $7.7 billion, the largest annual gain since 1998.

Mumbai: India's telecom market is firmly in control of local heavyweights — Kumar Mangalam Birla, Sunil Mittal and