NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch telephoned AT&T Inc (T.N) Chief Executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about cable network CNN, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday. Rupert Murdoch stands at the U.S. Open men's final in New York, September 10, 20...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA.N) said sales topped 10 billion yuan ($1.51 billion) in just over three minutes from the opening of Singles’ Day, an annual online discount sales gala that has become the world’s biggest shopping spree. Jack Ma, Chairman of Alib...
A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer’s Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked la...
A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer’s Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked la...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Singles’ Day, once a celebration for China’s lonely hearts and now the world’s biggest shopping spree, opens at midnight on Friday, with millions of shoppers eager to snap up cut-price deals. U.S. singer Pharrell Williams and Hong Kong singer Karen Mok perform ...
(Reuters) - Walt Disney’s shares rose 3 percent on Friday, as Wall Street shrugged off poor financial results and focused instead on the media giant’s commitment to build a service that will compete aggressively with video streaming pioneer Netflix. FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Disney sto...
(Reuters) - Shares of Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) hit a record on Friday, after it posted stellar quarterly results powered by higher demand for graphics chips used in gaming and data centers, and the rapid adoption of its new Volta chips for AI and driverless cars. The logo of Nvidia Corporation is seen d...
LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is expanding its nascent European product insurance business, according to recent job adverts, which industry watchers say could signal the start of broader ambitions in insurance. The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque, norther...
(Reuters) - Equifax Inc on Friday warned that this year’s massive data breach will harm future sales, saying it will reduce revenue in the current fourth quarter by 3 percent to 4 percent. Credit reporting company Equifax Inc. corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., September...
(Reuters) - Shares of Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) are set to open at a record on Friday, after it posted stellar quarterly results powered by higher demand for graphics chips used in gaming and data centers, and the rapid adoption of its new Volta chips for AI and driverless cars. The logo of Nvidia Corpor...
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 on Friday to trade more than 5 percent down on the day, having fallen by well over $1,000 since hitting an all-time high on Wednesday. A bitcoin (virtual currency) coin placed on Dollar banknotes is seen in this illustration picture, November 6, 2017. ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Uber [UBER.UL] lost an appeal on Friday to overturn a decision by a tribunal which said its drivers deserved workers’ rights such as the minimum wage, in a blow to the taxi app as it also battles to keep its license in London. A photo illustration shows the Uber app logo dis...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German investigators shut down an illegal file-sharing site with around 27,000 members as part of a police sting targeting 42 suspects across Germany, the Frankfurt attorney general’s office said on Friday. The file-sharing site, usenetrevolution.info, was used to share b...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - At Beijing’s sprawling Renmin University of China, two shiny new couriers dart through throngs of students to deliver parcels throughout the day. A BEST Inc employee scans parcels at one of the company's Shanghai order fulfillment centres in Shanghai, China Novembe...
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese online content platform Bytedance said on Friday it would buy popular lip-sync platform Musical.ly, in a deal seen valued at up to $1 billion that underlines the global ambitions of the fast-growing tech startup. Musical.ly, Chinese founded but popular around t...
(Reuters) - China’s AI-powered content platform Bytedance Ltd said on Friday it would merge with lip-syncing app Musical.ly Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Musical.ly will continue to operate as an independent platform post merger, while integrating Bytedance’s techn...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google unit told U.S. election regulators in a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday that it “strongly supports” tightening rules on online political advertising as part of efforts to curtail “foreign abuse and influence” in electio...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp, desperate for cash to avoid a possible delisting, is considering raising about 600 billion yen ($5.3 billion) by offering new shares in a third-party allotment, a person briefed on the matter said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Shoppers look at Toshiba Corp's Regza television...
In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child pornograph...
In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child pornograph...
