The dating app Tinder is shown on an Apple iPhone in this photo illustration taken February 10, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake/Illustration Now, you can use Tinder to plan a night out and take along your friends to meet strangers. The popular dating app, owned by website operator Match Group Inc, has laun...
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk attends a forum on startups in Hong Kong, China January 26, 2016. Reuters/Bobby Yip/File Photo Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) chief Elon Musk's ambitious new "master plan" provided a vision of the company as a leader in sustainable energy, but lacked details on how the pla...
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 Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) is to pay 3 billion yuan ($450 million) for a stake in Chinese automaker and rechargeable batteries firm BYD Co Ltd (002...
People play the augmented reality mobile game ''Pokemon Go'' by Nintendo in Bryant Park, New York City, U.S. July 11, 2016. Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich Thailand telecoms company True Corp Pcl plans to launch Nintendo Co Ltd's smash-hit mobile phone game Pokemon GO in the country in September, a top exec...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer delivers her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada in this January 7, 2014, file photo. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/Files Former Yahoo executive Dan Rosensweig has not worked at the pioneering internet company in nearly a decade. But ...
On the heels of its $32 billion takeover of chip designer ARM Holdings, SoftBank Corp founder Masayoshi Son is embarking on another "crazy idea": talking cars that can read a driver's emotions. The Japanese telecommunications and internet corporation said on Thursday it was teaming up with Honda Mot...
Gamers in Japan, home of Nintendo's (7974.T) Pokemon, are still impatiently awaiting the launch of the smash-hit Pokemon GO game but the government is already preparing for an invasion of little cartoon monsters, issuing a safety warning. The country's National Center for Incident Readiness and Stra...
Passersby walk past a McDonald's store in Tokyo December 16, 2014. Reuters/Issei Kato Shares of Japan's McDonald's Holdings Co jumped to their highest level since 2001 in early trade on Thursday after the company said it would collaborate on the Pokemon GO game "soon". The stock jumped as much as 7....
An Android smartphone displays the Google website in this picture illustration in Seoul September 7, 2011. Reuters/Truth Leem South Korea's antitrust regulator conducted an inspection of Google's local headquarters to investigate whether the firm is engaged in anticompetitive behavior over its Andro...
The top U.S. auto safety regulator said the government will not abandon efforts to speed the development of self-driving cars, despite a fatal accident involving a Tesla Model S operating on an autopilot system. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief Mark Rosekind said at a conference ...
A 3D printed people's models are seen in front of a displayed Airbnb logo in this illustration taken, June 8, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Airbnb said on Wednesday it hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help craft its anti-discrimination policy to combat discrimination occurri...
The logo of Intel, the world's largest chipmaker is seen at their offices in Jerusalem, April 20, 2016. Reuters/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo Intel Corp (INTC.O) reported a 2.6 percent rise in quarterly revenue, boosted by strong sales of its microchips that power data centers and Internet-connected devic...
Elon Musk, chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCity's Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York October 2, 2015. Reuters/Rashid Umar Abbasi/File Photo Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk said Wednesday he will roll out a new master plan for the electric lu...
An eBay logo is projected onto white boxes in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw, January 21, 2014. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/File Photo EBay Inc (EBAY.O) reported a 5.7 percent increase in quarterly revenue as its efforts to revamp its online marketplace start to pay off. The company's net incom...
A man walks past a Qualcomm advertising logo at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, February 27, 2013. Reuters/Albert Gea/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE - SEARCH ''BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD JULY 18'' FOR ALL IMAGES Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) reported a 3.6 percent rise in quarterly revenue, ...
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 Apple Inc stands to rake in $3 billion in revenue from the Pokemon Go...
A Microsoft logo is seen a day after Microsoft Corp's $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn Corp, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 14, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo The French data protection authority issued a formal notice to Microsoft Corporation to stop collecting excessive data from...
The augmented reality mobile game ''Pokemon Go'' by Nintendo is shown on a smartphone screen in this photo illustration taken in Palm Springs, California U.S. July 11, 2016. Reuters/Sam Mircovich/Illustration Electronics and smart-phone retailers are seeing a jump in sales of mobile charging equipme...
A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Facebook Inc's Messenger has more than 1 billion users, the social media company said on Wednesday, making it one the world's top ...
Warburg Pincus LLC has agreed to invest in U.S. environmental testing and sanitation company Hygiena LLC, the private equity firm said on Wednesday, gaining exposure to a business that grew sharply over the past decade. Warburg did not disclose the size of the investment. Since it was founded in 200...
