Uber Technologies has decided it will seek to sell around $10bn (€8.8bn) worth of shares in its initial public offering, according to sources.

It’s one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars: Since May, General Motors (GM) and its Cruise self-driving car unit have landed €4.35bn in investment commitments from Japan’s SoftBank and Honda Motor to develop a robot taxi service that could safely navigate the city streets of San Francisco by the end of next year - putting it ahead Alphabet’s Waymo self-driving car unit, Uber and Lyft.

Elon Musk has built the Tesla Gigafactory in the midst of the Nevada desert. But even the deep pockets of the greenminded billionaire could be challenged by the investment needed to create mass-market cars that are electric and driverless, writes Jon Gertner.

The company chaired by a detained Saudi billionaire prince is seeking to reassure investors after its stock plunged following his arrest in a purported anti-corruption drive.

Brothers Patrick and John Collinson, aged 28 and 26 respectively, are two of the world’s youngest billionaires. Their online payment company, Stripe, is valued at €7.8bn, says Ashlee Vance.

If you have a child under the age of five, they will never need to drive a car or hold a driving licence.

Uber Technologies is paying 20 million dollars (£16.2 million) to settle allegations that it duped people into driving for its ride-hailing service.

The National Transport Authority (NTA) has put the brakes on Uber’s planned introduction of its ride-sharing service in Ireland despite the company expressing confidence over its future here last week.

Now in its tenth iteration, Apple's Craig Federighi opened his iOS demo by saying that this was the biggest release of iPhone software in its history. Here's what's new to Apple's operating system in this release.

Saudi Arabia is not all that fond of competition — the kingdom has long reaped rich reward from its Opec membership.

A €7.3m fine in its hometown of San Francisco marks another in a long series of difficulties for Uber, whose unorthodox business model has sparked protests from London to New Delhi, writes Olivia Kelleher

A court in Paris has ruled that Uber’s ride-hailing service may infringe French law and ordered the company to make changes to its popular mobile app-based service.