Despite its brands being dogged by the ongoing emissions scandal, VW has edged out Toyota to become the world’s biggest carmaker in a first for the company

China’s Alibaba continues its overseas expansion with the purchase of money transfer network MoneyGram

Yahoo’s long goodbye continues to drag on, with its sale to Verizon now delayed after massive account breaches and reports of an SEC investigation dog the company

Uber has settled with the FTC after advertisements on Craigslist claimed drivers would earn as much as $25 per hour working for the service

Netflix gained seven million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2016, riding on a wave of the ‘big adoption’ of internet TV

British American Tobacco has agreed a $49.4bn takeover deal with Reynolds American, making it the world’s largest listed tobacco company

Alibaba has amalgamated online and offline retail operations in China, settling a multi-billion-dollar privatisation deal with Intime Retail

Senior Samsung executives are to be questioned by South Korean special prosecutors over an ongoing political corruption investigation

Apple is the latest backer to join the SoftBank Vision Fund, which plans to invest $100bn in tech companies worldwide

Vehicle sales in the US are on a successful streak, with year-on-year increases now maintained for seven years

In an apparent win for President-elect Donald Trump, Ford has cancelled plans for a $1.6bn plant in Mexico

The head of Twitter’s Greater China operations has announced her departure from the social media firm