Alibaba cloud computing arm to help foreign tech firms enter China

A sign of Alibaba Group is seen at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Asia 2016 in Shanghai, China, May 12, 2016. Reuters/Aly Song/File Photo Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is offering to help international technology firms such as SAP SE to enter China, a market where foreign tech ...

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Japan Display CEO: State fund has promised full support

A logo of Japan Display Inc is seen at its headquarters in Tokyo April 15, 2013. Reuters/Yuya Shino/File Photo Japan Display Inc (6740.T) said its top investor, the state-backed Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ), has promised to give full support to the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) supplier as it contin...

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Pokemon Go eludes cloning attempts by big game studios: executives

A man uses a mobile phone in front of an advertisement board bearing the image of Pokemon Go at an electronic shop in Tokyo, Japan, July 27, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo Top video game companies, caught off-guard by the runaway success of Pokemon Go, are wrestling with how to play catch-u...

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Australia sets up specialist cyber unit to trace terrorism payments

A delegate at the FireEye Cyber Security Summit uses his laptop during a break in sessions at a venue in Sydney, Australia, March 17, 2016. Reuters/David Gray Australia has set up a cyber-intelligence unit to identify terrorism financing, money laundering and financial fraud online, the government s...

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Twilio quarterly revenue jumps 70 percent

A banner for communications software provider Twilio Inc., hangs on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to celebrate the company's IPO in New York City, U.S., June 23, 2016. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Twilio Inc, a developer-focused messaging and voice services provider, reported a 70 per...

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LendingClub posts bigger loss; says CFO resigns

A woman looks at her phone as she passes by a Lending Club banner on the facade of the the New York Stock Exchange December 11, 2014. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Online lending platform operator LendingClub Corp reported a bigger quarterly loss, largely due to an impairment charge and higher operating ...

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Exclusive: Honeywell explores acquisition of JDA Software - sources

A view of the corporate sign outside the Honeywell International Automation and Control Solutions manufacturing plant in Golden Valley, Minnesota, January 28, 2010. Reuters/Eric Miller/File Photo Honeywell International Inc is in talks to acquire JDA Software Group Inc, in a deal that could value th...

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FTC sues 1-800 Contacts over online search advertising

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday it had sued 1-800 Contacts, which it called the largest U.S. online retailer of contact lenses, alleging the company illegally maintained anticompetitive agreements with rival online contact lens sellers. These agreements "suppress competition in cert...

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NBC signs deal to create original content for Snapchat

The NBC logo is pictured atop their office building in San Diego, California September 1, 2015. Reuters/Mike Blake Comcast Corp's NBC Universal has signed a multi-year deal with Snapchat to produce original content for the messaging app, a Snapchat executive told Reuters. NBC is set to kick off this...

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Data Breach At Oracle’s MICROS Point-of-Sale Division

A Russian organized cybercrime group known for hacking into banks and retailers appears to have breached hundreds of computer systems at software giant Oracle Corp., KrebsOnSecurity has learned. More alarmingly, the attackers have compromised a customer support portal for companies using&n...

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Data Breach At Oracle’s MICROS Point-of-Sale Division

A Russian organized cybercrime group known for hacking into banks and retailers appears to have breached hundreds of computer systems at software giant Oracle Corp., KrebsOnSecurity has learned. More alarmingly, the attackers have compromised a customer support portal for companies using&n...

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Pokemon Go master says not done with game, hopes for more features

Nick Johnson, who claims to be the first person to capture all 145 creatures now available in the "Pokemon Go" mobile gaming phenomenon, says he is not ready to put away his smartphone just yet and hopes for new features. The 28-year-old tech employee from Brooklyn, New York, who refers to himself a...

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U.S. to auction $16 million worth of bitcoin from various cases

A Bitcoin logo is displayed at the Bitcoin Center New York City in New York's financial district July 28, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo - RTSKT40 The U.S. government said on Monday it plans to auction over 2,700 bitcoin that were forfeited during several cases, including the prosecution ...

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Wal-Mart to buy Jet.com in bid to strengthen e-commerce offering

A person walks outside a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City January 11, 2013. Reuters/Edgard Garrido/File Photo Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Monday it would buy online retailer Jet.com for about $3 billion, the largest-ever deal for an e-commerce startup, as it races to build a Web business to better comp...

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Facebook denies reluctance to give data to German investigators

A Facebook logo is displayed on the side of a tour bus in New York's financial district July 28, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo - RTX2JH2W Facebook rejected on Monday claims made by Germany's state authorities that it was reluctant to co-operate with them on criminal investigations, sayin...

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Russia says investigating iPhone price-fixing allegations

A man holds the newly released iPhone 6 in a mobile phone shop in Moscow September 26, 2014. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said on Monday it had opened a case into price-fixing allegations concerning Apple iPhones. "The Anti-Monopoly Service sees signs of price fixing...

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New spyware detected targeting firms in Russia, China: Symantec

A padlock is displayed at the Alert Logic booth during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. August 3, 2016. Reuters/David Becker A previously unknown group called "Strider" has been conducting cyber-espionage attacks against selected targets in Russia, China, Swede...

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Amazon Japan raided on suspicion of antitrust practices: Nikkei

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo Japan's Fair Trade Commission has raided the office of Amazon Japan on suspicion of pressuring retailers to offer products on more favorable conditions than on rival ...

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Bitfinex exchange customers to get 36 percent haircut, debt token

A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex, which lost $72 million to hackers last week, told customers on Sun...

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Nissan in talks with Panasonic, others to sell battery operations: sources

Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) is in talks with Panasonic Corp (6752.T) and overseas companies including Chinese firms over the possible sale of its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said. Two people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday that the Japanese automaker ...

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