Mobile Applications

Starting next year, Wal-Mart will offer Chase Pay as a way for shoppers to pay for things on Walmart.com and in the Walmart app, including the Walmart Pay mobile service in stores.

The ride-hailing startup is rolling out a revamped mobile app with new features designed to keep people using it as they are chauffeured around town, including access to Snapchat and Yelp.

As shoppers to turn apps to make purchases, Instagram wants in on the action.

Unity Technologies is helping to launch one of the most anticipated mobile games yet: Nintendo’s “Super Mario Run.”

More than 240 businesses nationwide have been sued in federal court since the start of 2015 concerning allegedly inaccessible websites for blind users. And lawyers expect claims against mobile applications could be on the horizon.

Goldman Sachs has begun allowing rivals to sell their own investment products through one of its web applications, marking a new openness for a bank that has closely guarded its technology.

AutoNation unveiled a $500 million expansion plan that includes the creation of stand-alone used-car stores and recorded lower third-quarter earnings, hurt by the Takata air-bag recall.

Qualcomm agreed to buy NXP Semiconductors for $39 billion, adding the top supplier of automotive chips, a fast-growing market, to the San Diego company best known for designing smartphone chips.

Apple introduced new versions of its Macintosh personal computers, betting that smaller, thinner models and a touch screen on the keyboard will reverse declining sales.

Apple Inc. is bringing an all-new app called TV to Apple TV streaming boxes as well as iPhones and iPads this December.

Online lenders are stepping up security checks on applicants amid a rise in potentially fraudulent behavior. New measures include sharing data about who is taking out their loans as well as using new technology to verify borrowers’ identity through mobile phones.

Chatbots encountered by smartphone users today might seem fairly crude, but they are going to get a lot more useful, technology strategist Michael Wolf says, shaping the outcome of one of the internet’s largest battlegrounds.

Didi Chuxing unveiled a new Uber China app that could pose challenges for many foreigners in China. For one thing, it is available only in Mandarin.