Facebook won’t tell you what’s trending anymore. The social media site is removing the feature, which ranked news topics and links based on popularity, starting next week. “We found that over time people found the product to be less and less useful,” Alex Hardiman, the company’s head of news products, said in a blog post. […]

Jeep sales are on fire. The Fiat-Chrysler brand sold almost 100,000 vehicles in May, a nearly 30 percent increase over the same month last year. That makes May Jeep’s second best month for sales ever, behind March, when the brand sold 98,382. Sales dipped in April, but the brand still sold 82,641 vehicles, eclipsing its […]

The world’s biggest sporting event will benefit Twitter shares, according to one Wall Street firm. MKM Partners reiterated its buy rating for Twitter’s stock, predicting a big sales boost from the World Cup this summer. “The Internet advertising environment appears to remain robust entering mid-year,” analyst Rob Sanderson said in a note to clients Friday. […]

Ron Conway, one of San Francisco‘s top tech power brokers, is taking a step back from tech investing. SV Angel, an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Conway, said Thursday it won’t be raising another fund. Conway and his son Topher will continue to invest under the SV Angel name, on a smaller scale and […]

If you’re one of the 97 million dieters in the United States, you’re likely familiar with the relentless battle to lose weight as well as its accompanying refrain: Eat less and exercise more. This ongoing struggle has fed the growth of diets from the doable to the dangerous, and exercise regimens from the reasonable to […]

Alphabet‘s Google is drawing thousands of new customers to gyms and salons each month through an appointment-booking tool released last year, Reuters has learned, a quiet step in the company’s transition to the next generation of search. The service, known as Reserve with Google, spares users the phone calls, online searching and form filling typically […]

Shares in Dialog Semiconductor fell by 17 percent on Friday to a four-year low after the Anglo-German chipmaker said its main customer Apple would cut orders for its power-management chips by around 30 percent this year. The news also hit other European semiconductor stocks in Apple’s smartphone supply chain at the open before they recovered […]

Apple shares will rise as consumers buy more expensive iPhones, according to one Wall Street firm. UBS raised its price target to $210 from $190 for Apple shares, representing 12 percent upside to Thursday’s close. The firm cited the premium nature of the company’s brand. The firm’s consumer survey “results indicate weak iPhone buying intentions […]

Frederic H. Moll trained to become a surgeon, but never completed his residency at Virgina Mason Hospital in Seattle. Nonetheless, the doctor-by-training and humble “gadget guy,” has changed the face of medicine for good. Moll, who is known as the “Bill Gates of robotics,” ushered in the first wave of surgical robotics in 1995 with […]

A cyberattack of devastating proportions is not a matter of if, but when, numerous security experts believe. And the scale of it, one information security specialist said this week, will be such that it will have its own name — like Pearl Harbor or 9/11. “The more I speak to people, the more they think […]