Theranos chief barred from running lab

Elizabeth Holmes was once dubbed the Steve Jobs of biotechnology, and not just because of the black turtleneck.

Federal regulators have barred Elizabeth Holmes from owning or operating a medical laboratory for at least two years, endangering the future of the embattled blood-testing start-up.

IRS takes Facebook to court

Facebook disclosed the IRS was examining its taxes for 2008 through 2013.

Federal tax officials have sought a court order demanding internal corporate records related to one of Facebook's offshore tax strategies.

The fall of a career Barclays man

The offence was "so terribly out of character", Peter Johnson's lawyer said at sentencing. "It will define his life."

To ex-colleagues, Barclays trader Peter Johnson was a bully who oversaw cheating on a benchmark interest rate. To friends, he was "kind and loyal". This week he was sentenced to four years' jail.

Should drivers take a back seat?

Google continues working toward what the company hopes will one day be a commercially available autonomous vehicle.

The difficulty of getting drivers to take control of autonomous cars when necessary has prompted many car makers to take them out of the equation.

Wall St high-flyer's 'shameful charade'

Andrew Caspersen: "There was no real investment opportunity. It was just a way for me to get money to feed a gambling ...

Wall Street scion Andrew Caspersen was running a Ponzi-like scheme, US prosecutors allege, by transferring money collected from investors to his personal brokerage accounts.

Ashley Madison used fembots to lure men

Ashley Madison's parent company, which was hit by a devastating hack last year, is the target of a US Federal Trade ...

Infidelity dating site Ashley Madison used computer programs, dubbed fembots, that impersonated real women, striking up conversations with paying male customers.

Trudeau steals the show at Sun Valley

Canada's PM is a star attraction at this year's Sun Valley conference.

The annual Sun Valley media conference has drawn the cream of the corporate crop for more than three decades and this year's guest list is no exception.

Apple sued in China over 1994 war film

Apple has run into strife in China.

Apple is being sued by a subsidiary of China's broadcasting regulator over a propaganda film more than 20 years old, in the latest legal wrangling for the tech giant in China in recent weeks.

News Corp in $394m talkSPORT deal

News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson said the deal was a "clear sign of our commitment to, and belief in, the United ...

The News Corp deal unites The Sun newspaper's sports coverage with the commercial radio network that broadcasts Premier League and FA Cup soccer.

More than fear and greed

Concerns about China come as there's been reduced support for the US alliance coinciding with the US presidential ...

Most Australians would probably class our relationship status with China as 'it's complicated'.

VW faces $20b tab in US

Car owners have the option of selling their vehicles back to VW at pre-scandal prices or to have the emissions software ...

Volkswagen will settle its emissions scandal case for $US14.7 billion ($20 billion), the largest payout by a car maker to consumers in US history, sources say.