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Abbott Laboratories said it could resume infant formula production within two weeks at a Michigan manufacturing plant that has been shut since February because of bacterial contamination concerns, exacerbating a nationwide formula shortage. The Illinois-based company said Wednesday it would resume production pending approval from the Food and Drug Administration, which has been conducting an investigation into whether bacterial contamination at the plant…

Google Glass got most of the attention, hardware-wise, during Google I/O 2012, but Google had a second, far more modest piece of hardware at the event in the Nexus 7 tablet. It was widely available, didn’t cost very much, and unlike Glass, never went on to cause any controversy. But despite its ordinariness, when you look back at the Nexus 7, its impact was undeniable. It tapped into an explosion of interest around tablets, had the right price tag, and was built by one of the most innovative tablet makers around at…

Electric bikes. Patio furniture. Beauty gadgets.Best Buy is adding merchandise that might surprise shoppers who typically think of its stores and website as a place to buy smartphones, laptops and TVs.The company said Friday it has begun to carry about 100 skin-care devices, including a facial steamer and at-home tool for microdermabrasion, at nearly 300 stores and on its website.Best Buy is making a broader push into categories such as fitness and furniture as it looks to propel growth beyond the Covid pandemic. The…

Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco on April 9, 2019.Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle's cloud unit is forming a team to build services for developers running blockchain applications as the company tries to capitalize on the surging popularity of crypto and related projects.Amit Zavery, a vice president at Google Cloud, told employees in an email Friday that the idea is to make the Google Cloud Platform the first…

Suppliers to Apple Inc. AAPL -3.66% are among the businesses taking precedence in local governments’ efforts to restart factories in the Shanghai region as the U.S. tech giant, facing supply constraints, warned that the pandemic’s resurgence in China could dent sales.Covid-19 outbreaks have hit Shanghai and the neighboring provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang over the last month—a region with one of the highest concentrations of Apple’s top suppliers, according to the…

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Buying the bird app was apparently the easy part. Twitter’s transition to being under Elon Musk’s ownership is already off to a rough start it seems. And it’s only been less than a day since the deal for the Tesla CEO to buy the company for $44 billion was reached. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Twitter has essentially banned changes to its product through Friday, with the only exception being “business-critical” changes approved by a vice president. The short-term limit on product changes isn’t so much…

Major American brands including Apple, Google, Ford and Harley-Davidson on Tuesday stopped sales and distanced themselves from Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine, joining a growing list of companies from shippers to car makers to energy companies shunning the country. Apple said it had stopped sales of iPhones and other products in Russia, Alphabet Inc's Google dropped Russian state publishers from its news, Ford Motor told its Russian manufacturing partner it was suspending operations in the country, and…

Alphabet's Google is investing in its first ever Africa product development centre in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, it said, as it positions itself to serve a growing base of internet users on the continent.By the end of this decade, the continent will host 800 million internet users, the California-based firm said, and a third of the world's youth population, making it an attractive investment destination.Google is hiring engineers, product managers, user experience designers and researchers to staff the new centre, said…