Starbucks has offered its new chief executive the use of a corporate jet for his 1,000-mile commute.The firm said Brian Niccol could continue to live at his home in Newport Beach, California, and use the aircraft to travel to its offices in Seattle, Washington, when he takes up the role next month. The world's largest coffee chain said the 50-year-old would be expected to work at least three days a week at its headquarters, when not otherwise travelling for work.Critics said it undermined Starbucks's pledge ...

The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google, according to reports from Bloomberg, the New York Times and others.Last week, a federal court in the US ruled the tech giant had broken antitrust law by spending billions on creating an illegal monopoly and becoming the world's default search engine. Read more: Google illegally maintained online search monopoly, US court rules The ruling is seen as the first big win for authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech.The Department of Justice' ...

Google's freshly updated Pixel range has been revealed at Made by Google 2024 - the tech giant's annual hardware launch.The phones, artificial intelligence, and earbuds have all had makeovers, but one smartwatch update is groundbreaking. Loss of Pulse DetectionThe Pixel Watch, Google's smartwatch, has a new Loss of Pulse Detection feature that uses AI to spot when the wearer's pulse disappears. Image: Pixel Watch 3. Pic: Google If that happens, it activates more sensors to see if it can detect any motion ...

Starbucks has suddenly replaced its chief executive after the company suffered a bigger-than-expected drop in sales.The coffee chain's board announced on Tuesday that Laxman Narasimhan had departed the firm "effective immediately". They said Brian Niccol - the boss of burrito chain Chipotle - would soon take his place.It comes following mounting pressure and speculation over the future of Mr Narasimhan, who had only been in the role for a year-and-a-half.Last month, the firm reported that global sales had f ...

The UK's competition regulator has launched an inquiry into Amazon's investment of over £3bn into an artificial intelligence (AI) startup as regulators ramp up their scrutiny of mergers involving the fast-growing technology.The deal, which was announced by Amazon in March, included a $4bn (£3.16bn) investment into Anthropic and a commitment from the AI startup to use Amazon Web Services as its "primary cloud provider" for essential functions, including safety research and the development of future foundatio ...

At the end of a mixed fortnight's worth of trading updates from the US tech giants, it was down to the biggest of them - Apple - to lift investor spirits.The $3.35trn (£2.63trn) giant, established again in June as the world's biggest company after five months during which Microsoft was bigger, reported sales of $85.78bn (£67.32bn) for the three months to the end of June. That was up by just under 5% on the same period last year and was also ahead of the $84.53bn (£66.34bn) Wall Street had been expecting.Mon ...

Thousands of Disneyland workers have voted to authorise a strike. If the strike goes ahead, 14,000 Disney ride operators, shop workers, sweet makers, ticket takers and parking attendants could walk off the job. It would be Disneyland's first strike in 40 years, affecting Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, the Downtown Disney retail district and Disney-owned hotels in California.The vote was held by a coalition of four unions. Of the members who voted, 99% supported authorising a strike, according to t ...

It's possible we are looking at the largest IT outage in history.More than 70% of the world's desktop computers run on Microsoft Windows software. A software update from one of Microsoft's clients - cybersecurity company CrowdStrike - has now taken a large number of those machines offline.The faulty code - just a few lines long - has led to global disruption with an economic impact that is as yet incalculable - but likely to be huge.Follow live: Major services across the world affected by outage The "Falco ...

Businesses including banks, airlines, train companies, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been affected by a mass global IT outage.Major US airlines including American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines have been grounded, while airports in Germany, Amsterdam and Spain are also reporting issues. It is believed the outage is related to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and Microsoft - although it is unknown if it is the same issue affectin ...

There are worse places to suffer a travel delay than on the International Space Station. At least astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get to gaze at the planet rotating beneath them as they wait for engineers to work out what's gone wrong with their spacecraft's thrusters so they can fly home. In a news conference from the ISS, they certainly seemed to be having a good time, helping out with science experiments and maintenance - and taking photos of tropical storms.But for Boeing the technical glitch ...