Ford said Tuesday it will expand production of its Super Duty trucks to a factory in Canada that was slated for a $1.34 billion transformation into an assembly plant for its next-generation of electric vehicles.The U.S. automaker said it will start producing F-Series Super Duty pickups at its Oakville Assembly plant in Ontario, Canada, beginning in 2026 — a move that will add capacity of about 100,000 units annually. The decision will also further delay plans for a three-row electric vehicle, which was supp ...

Amazon’s Prime Day event clocked record sales this year, as U.S. consumers spent $14.2 billion across July 16 and 17, according to Adobe Analytics. This marks an 11% jump from last year’s $12.7 billion total.Buyers spent $7.2 billion on day one of the 2024 online event, up 11.2% from a year prior. Adobe Analytics said day two says increased 10.4% year-over-year, hitting $7 billion. While Amazon didn’t release any of its own numbers, the company acknowledged record-breaking sales. “Prime Day 2024 was a huge ...

Italy’s competition and consumer watchdog has announced an investigation into how Google gets users’ consent in order to link their activity across different services for ad profiling, saying it suspects the adtech giant of “unfair commercial practices.”At issue here is how Google obtains consent from users in the European Union to link their activity across its apps and services — like Google Search, YouTube, Chrome and Maps. Linking user activity lets it profile them for ad targeting, the company’s main s ...

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz for $23 billion, a person close to the company told TechCrunch. The deal discussions were previously reported by the Wall Street Journal.Wiz, a cybersecurity startup founded in 2020, was approached a few weeks ago by Thomas Kurian, head of Google’s cloud division, the source said. Since then, negotiations proceeded quickly and the two parties tentatively agreed on the purchase price. The person said that a deal of this magnitude faces m ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Monday earlier reports the company was delaying its robotaxi reveal, explaining it was because he requested an “important design change to the front.” Bloomberg News reported last week Tesla was pushing the event to October. It had been aiming for an August 8 event. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tesla shares fell more than 6% immediately following the report, but have since recovered. Musk responded to a question posed in a post on X, the so ...

Google’s parent company Alphabet might be on the verge of making its biggest acquisition ever.The Wall Street Journal reports that Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz for around $23 billion. While the deal isn’t finalized, the WSJ says it could come together soon. Wiz offers an all-in-one approach to cloud security, ingesting data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud platforms, then scanning it all for security risk factors. Presumably, Alphabet executives see t ...

All the announcements out of Samsung Unpacked and how Whataburger’s app became an unlikely power outage mapThis week, AT&T confirmed it will begin notifying around 110 million AT&T customers about a data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers. The stolen data contains phone numbers and AT&T records of calls and text messages during a six-month period in 2022, the company says. If you’re an AT&T customer, here’s what the breach could mean for you.Samsun ...

U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.In a statement, AT&T said that the stolen data contains phone numbers of both cellular and landline customers, as well as AT&T records of calls and text messages — such as who contacted who by phone or text — during a six-month period between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 20 ...

Tesla is apparently not ready to reveal its “robotaxi” design next month, and is instead pushing the event to October, according to Bloomberg News.The company reportedly needs more time to build the prototypes. It had been aiming for an August 8 event. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tesla shares fell more than 6% immediately following the report. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first teased the robotaxi event in April, on the same day that Reuters reported the company was shelving p ...

The European Union has accepted commitments from Apple over how it operates Apple Pay to settle a long running competition investigation. Commission EVP Margrethe Vestager, who heads up the EU’s competition division, announced the development in a press conference Thursday.Apple has until July 25 to implement changes that will allow developers of rival mobile wallets to offer contactless payment by the predominant technology used in the EU (NFC) — enabling them to offer their users “tap and go” payments, sh ...