Europe’s largest home appliance maker puts $250 million US investment on hold over Trump’s tariff hike

Evan Vucci/AP Electrolux, Europe’s largest home appliance maker, said it would delay a planned $ 250 million investment in Tennessee. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on imported aluminum and steel. Electrolux buys all the steel it uses in its US products domestically. Trump said the duties — 25% on steel imports […]

CEO of company that makes $400 juice appliance has a message for the haters

(credit: Juicero) Juicero found itself in the limelight on Wednesday after Bloomberg ran a piece on the company’s $ 400 cold-press juice appliance. It seems investors have been disappointed in the juicer after discovering that its primary function—squeezing juice out of a proprietary bag—could be replicated by human hands. In a test by Bloomberg, reporters […]

Mossberg: The old dream of the information appliance is now real — so what’s next?

It’s often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs. These were the first computing devices meant for individuals that weren’t kits, had screens and keyboards, and could actually do something useful, like word processing, game play, or, […]