(Reuters) - Zynga Inc, the creator of online game FarmVille, forecast current-quarter bookings below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, citing lower advertising sales and weak demand for the company's older games. The company forecast bookings of $205 million for the third quarter ending September, b...

(Reuters) - Cyber security company Symantec Corp (SYMC.O) has agreed to sell its business that helps verify the identity of websites to buyout firm Thoma Bravo LLC, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, a move that extricates it from a feud with Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O). Thoma Br...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Some Banco Bradesco SA customers struggled to access online and branch services on Wednesday, after Brazil's third largest listed lender was hit by an intermittent glitch that slowed transaction systems. A spokeswoman at Osasco, Brazil-based Bradesco (BBDC4.SA) said in a teleph...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Costly cyber attacks are having a bigger impact on corporate earnings and are becoming a fact of life for companies as Oreo cookie maker Mondelez, drug maker Merck and others said that a destructive "worm" attack in the last week of the second quarter disrupted operations. Mondel...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Snap Inc (SNAP.N) slumped to new lows on Wednesday while short sellers closed out their bets following paper profits of half a billion dollars since the Snapchat owner's market debut in March. Sky-high costs to borrow Snap shares are leading many short sellers to ...

Adobe last week detailed plans to retire its Flash Player software, a cross-platform browser plugin so powerful and so packed with security holes that it has become the favorite target of malware developers. To help eradicate this ubiquitous liability, Adobe is enlisting the help of Apple, Face...

Adobe last week detailed plans to retire its Flash Player software, a cross-platform browser plugin so powerful and so packed with security holes that it has become the favorite target of malware developers. To help eradicate this ubiquitous liability, Adobe is enlisting the help of Apple, Face...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - In an empty mall that once bustled with trade in high-end smartphones, a Hong Kong shopkeeper sits surrounded by boxes of Apple Inc (AAPL.O) headphones, grumbling that business is grim - a domino effect of lackluster demand from mainland China. In recent years, hundreds of thou...

MILAN (Reuters) - French media group Vivendi could avoid having to sell a 20 percent stake in Mediaset by placing it into a blind trust, a source at Italy's communications watchdog AGCOM said on Wednesday. AGCOM said in April that Vivendi's stake-building at both broadcaster Mediaset and phone group...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian travel start-up Traveloka, which has raised nearly $500 million from investors including Expedia Inc and China's JD.com Inc, plans to ramp up its new tourist attraction booking service next year, a senior executive said. Investors have been pouring money into start-ups...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco is in the midst of paying back an overdue loan and discussing repayments of a larger, upcoming due loan with China Construction Bank, the company said in a statement responding to media reports on Wednesday. LeEco, one of China's most ambitious comp...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) surprisingly strong quarterly results and forecast pushed the iPhone maker's shares to a record high, putting the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI on track to breach the 22,000 mark when the market opens. Apple's shares were up 5.5 percent at $158.33 in premarket tr...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said it had resolved an issue with its systems that affected the check-in process on flights from Heathrow on Wednesday, saying that customers were now being processed as normal. "Customers are being checked in as normal after an earlier problem was resolved. We ar...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Asian tech shares rallied on Wednesday on the back of Apple's robust earnings, with hopes the iPhone maker's fortunes will help boost sales of the region's hardware component suppliers ahead of the new iPhone launch. On Tuesday, Apple Inc delivered surprisingly strong fiscal third...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese partner of global e-commerce firm Amazon.com Inc has told customers to end the use of illegal virtual private networks (VPNs), which can allow users to circumvent internet censorship. The instruction comes after Apple Inc removed VPN services from its Chinese a...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp's talks to sell its prized memory chip business have stalled, raising concerns over how fast the company can plug a multi-billion-dollar balance sheet hole left by the collapse of its U.S. nuclear business. Toshiba's chips and devices business acc...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform Dianrong said on Wednesday it raised $220 million from a group of investors led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd, looking to step up research of new technology as it expands across China and explores ventures in other countrie...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Shares in South Korea's SK Hynix Inc, the world's second-biggest memory chip maker, rose more than 3 percent on Wednesday morning after Apple Inc delivered surprisingly upbeat earnings. Apple reported a 7.2 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, buoyed by better-than-expecte...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin's underlying software code was split on Tuesday, generating a new clone called "Bitcoin Cash," but the new virtual currency got off to a slow start due to lackluster support for its network. The initiative was headed by a small group of mostly China-based bitcoin miners ...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc forecast current-quarter revenue largely above estimates on Tuesday, helping allay some investor concerns about a possible delay in the launch of the iPhone's 10th-anniversary edition later this year. Shares of the world's most valuable technology company, which also reported b...