Apple weathers anti-U.S. demo in China, where patriotic protests snowball

A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed stock graph in this illustration taken April 28, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Apple Inc (AAPL.O) found itself on the receiving end of a small, short-lived anti-U.S. protest this week in China, the tech firm's biggest oversea...

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Pokemon GO blamed for illegal border crossing from Canada to U.S.

A virtual map of Bryant Park is displayed on the screen as a man plays the augmented reality mobile game ''Pokemon Go'' by Nintendo in New York City, U.S. July 11, 2016. Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/File Photo Two youths unaware of their surroundings when they were playing Pokemon GO on their cell phones...

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U.S. asks phone companies to provide 'robocall' blocking technology

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler speaks at the FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington DC, U.S. February 26, 2015. Reuters/Yuri Gripas/File Photo The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday pressed major U.S. phone companies to take immediate steps to...

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Verizon nearing deal to acquire Yahoo's core business: Bloomberg

Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) is the lead bidder to acquire Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) core business, Bloomberg reported on Friday. An announcement may come in the next few days, Bloomberg said. Verizon and Yahoo were not immediately available to comment. (Reporting by Anya George Tharakan in Bengalur...

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Sweden's Kinnevik says Zalando can withstand Amazon threat

A Zalando label lies on an item of clothing in a showroom of the fashion retailer Zalando in Berlin October 14, 2014. Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo Swedish investment firm Kinnevik, which backs Europe's biggest pure online fashion firm Zalando, is confident the retailer can withstand competit...

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China seeks top-10 automation ranking by 2020: robot industry group

Robots covered in plastic sheets are seen at a plant of Kuka Robotics in Shanghai, China August 13, 2014. Reuters/Pete Sweeney/File Photo China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics (I...

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Apple to open first Apple Store in Taiwan

A man talks on his telephone as customers walk through an Apple store in Grand Central Terminal in New York, March 15, 2013. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Apple Inc is planning to open its first Apple Store in Taiwan, a move that comes after the U.S. technology giant raised $1.38 billion in a bond offering ...

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Ride-hailing service Grab partners Indonesia's Lippo for mobile payments

Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab said on Friday it is teaming up with Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group to implement a payments platform. This will be Grab's first step to providing a mobile payments solution more widely across Southeast Asia and will extend its reach beyond transport, Gr...

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Peter Thiel tells Republican convention he is 'proud to be gay'

Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel, the only big-name supporter of Donald Trump from the country's technology hub, spoke on Thursday at the Republican National Convention to urge the country to discard petty cultural battles and turn its attention to solving the United States' economic decline. Thi...

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Samsung Elec sues Huawei in China for patent infringement

The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, July 4, 2016. Picture taken on July 4, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Friday it sued Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] for patent infringements through multiple c...

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Users say Pokemon GO launches in Japan, bringing hit home

A ''Pidgey'' Pokemon is seen on the screen of the Pokemon Go mobile app, Nintendo's new scavenger hunt game which utilizes geo-positioning, in a photo illustration taken in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 11, 2016. Reuters/Chris Helgren/File Photo Nintendo Co Ltd's Pokemon GO mobile game has ...

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China's WeChat takes on WhatsApp in Africa

A picture illustration shows a WeChat app icon in Beijing, December 5, 2013. Reuters/Petar Kujundzic Late to the party, WeChat, China's biggest Internet-based mobile messaging platform, is scrambling to get a piece of the action in the booming African market. The move is leading the South Africa-Chi...

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Facebook's solar-powered internet drone takes flight

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a propeller pod of the solar-powered Aquila drone on stage during a keynote at the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016. Facebook Inc said July 21, 2016, it had completed a successful test flight of a... Reuters/Stephen Lam/File Photo ...

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Obama administration offers EV charging loan guarantees

A Kia Soul EV is plugged into a charging station in Detroit, Michigan, in this file photo dated January 13, 2015. Reuters/Mark Blinch The White House on Thursday said it was expanding a federal loan guarantee program to include companies building electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, part of a br...

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PayPal announces Visa partnership; earnings rise

The PayPal logo is seen during an event at Terra Gallery in San Francisco, California May 21, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) on Thursday showed strong growth in its online payments business, meeting Wall Street expectations on earnings and announcing a partner...

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Comcast to offer prepaid TV and internet service

The NBC and Comcast logo are displayed on top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, formerly known as the GE building, in midtown Manhattan in New York July 1, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Comcast Corp, the No. 1 U.S. cable company, said on Thursday it will introduce prepaid TV and internet services...

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Al Jazeera to launch English language digital streaming service in U.S

A woman passes by the Al Jazeera America broadcast center in midtown Manhattan in New York City January 13, 2016. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Al Jazeera Media Network is preparing to make its English language international news channel video content digitally available to U.S. viewers again, according ...

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Saudi Arabia denies issuing new fatwa against Pokemon

A woman plays the augmented reality mobile game ''Pokemon Go'' by Nintendo, as a visitor uses an automated teller machine (ATM) at a branch of Sberbank in central Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, July 20, 2016. Reuters/Ilya Naymushin Saudi Arabia denied on Thursday that the conservative kingdom's top c...

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Canadian Man Behind Popular ‘Orcus RAT’

Far too many otherwise intelligent and talented software developers these days apparently think they can get away with writing, selling and supporting malicious software and then couching their commerce as a purely legitimate enterprise. Here’s the story of how I learned the real-life identity...

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Canadian Man Behind Popular ‘Orcus RAT’

Far too many otherwise intelligent and talented software developers these days apparently think they can get away with writing, selling and supporting malicious software and then couching their commerce as a purely legitimate enterprise. Here’s the story of how I learned the real-life identity...

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