Google venture arm backs startup aiming to bring mixed reality to any car windshield or plane cockpit

Distance Technologies develops a product that it says can turn any transparent surface into an augmented-reality display.Distance TechnologiesDistance Technologies, a Finnish startup that aims to bring mixed-reality technology to any car windshield or plane cockpit,...

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Micron Technology, Starbucks, CarMax and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Starbucks — The coffee chain rose more than 2% after Bernstein upgraded the stock to outperform from market perform. The firm is bullish on new CEO Brian Niccol who began on Sept. 9. New York Community Bancorp...

China’s Xi and top leaders call for halting real estate decline, responding to public concerns

Builders step up construction in Yuexi County, Anqing city, Anhui province, China, on Sept 25, 2024.Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China aims to stop the property slump, top leaders said Thursday in a readout of a high-level meeting published by...

France’s biggest lender says there are ‘too many’ European banks as UniCredit moves on Commerzbank

A sign on the exterior of a BNP Paribas SA bank branch in Paris, France, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFrance’s BNP Paribas on Thursday said there are simply too many European lenders for the region to be able to compete with rivals...

Klarna partners with fellow fintech Adyen to bring buy now, pay later into physical stores

“Buy-now, pay-later” firm Klarna aims to return to profit by summer 2023.Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesSwedish firm Klarna is partnering up with Dutch payments fintech Adyen to bring its popular buy now, pay later service into physical retail...