Electric vehicle demand is likely to drop if the United States eliminates a tax credit worth up to $7,500 as President Donald Trump has proposed, a senior U.S. Transportation Department official said on Tuesday.

The top U.S. securities regulator on Tuesday sought permission from a judge to respond to Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's arguments that his Twitter post about the electric vehicle maker’s production volume did not violate his fraud settlement with the government.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday asked a judge for permission to respond to arguments by Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk that his recent tweet about the electric vehicle maker’s production volume did not violate his fraud settlement with the regulator and that he cann...

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Wirecard has suspended an accounting employee in Singapore until an investigation into allegations of fraud and creative accounting is over, the company's chief executive told Reuters on Tuesday.

A global effort to revamp international tax rules for the digital era is receiving less corporate push-back than past attempts, the OECD's head of tax policy said on Tuesday.

Uber Technologies Inc has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by drivers nearly six years ago, according to court filings, resolving one of its many legal battles with drivers ahead of a hotly anticipated initial public offering this year.

The United States thinks a French plan for a tax specifically targeting digital companies would be discriminatory against its businesses, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Tuesday.

Germany will define its own security standards for a new 5G mobile network, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, after Washington said it would scale back data-sharing with Berlin if China's Huawei was allowed to participate.

Toyota Motor Corp, one of the world's largest automakers, and Japan's space agency said on Tuesday they had agreed to cooperate in developing a manned lunar rover that runs on fuel cell technologies.

Germany will define its own security standards for a new 5G mobile network, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, when asked about Washington's warning that it would scale back data-sharing with Berlin if China's Huawei was allowed to participate.

Germany shares U.S. concerns about giving China's Huawei a role in a next-generation mobile network, but will make an independent decision on how to safeguard its security, the country's transatlantic policy coordinator said on Tuesday.

Verizon Communications Inc said on Tuesday it had fixed the issue that caused a widespread text outage on the East Coast of the United States for a few hours.

China's Huawei on Tuesday criticized the United States for warning Berlin that it could scale back intelligence cooperation with Germany if it allows Huawei to participate in construction of a next-generation mobile network.

The Italian arm of China's Huawei sees no impact yet in the country from an ongoing dispute with the United States, Chief Executive Thomas Miao said on Tuesday

Cloudflare Inc, a U.S. startup whose software makes websites more secure and load faster, said on Tuesday it had raised $150 million in the latest funding round, led by global investment firm Franklin Templeton.

Smart TV manufacturer Vizio has formed a partnership with nine media and advertising companies to develop an industry standard that will allow smart TVs to target advertisements to specific households, the companies said Tuesday.

Volkswagen has not considered taking a minority investment in Google's autonomous cars project Waymo, Chief Executive Herbert Diess said on Tuesday, adding that talks about developing self-driving cars with Ford continue.

Taiwan's Foxconn on Tuesday responded to a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Microsoft Corp , saying as a contract manufacturer, it has never needed to pay royalties for the U.S. giant's software.

German industrial group Siemens filed the most patent applications in Europe last year, pushing China's Huawei [HWT.UL] into second place, the European Patent Office said on Tuesday.