Jimmy Wales, Founder and Chair Emeritus, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation, gestures during the session 'The Future of Education: Lessons in Uncertainty' at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 21, 2016. Reuters/Ruben Sprich Wikipedia co-founder Ji...
A woman walks past the logo of Line Corp at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan June 2, 2016. Reuters/Toru Hanai/File Photo Line Corp [IPO-LINE.T] on Friday said it plans to list shares in Tokyo and New York next month through an initial public offering (IPO) that would value the Japanese mes...
A 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator used by ancient Greeks to chart the movement of the sun, moon and planets may also have had another purpose - fortune telling, say researchers. Heralded as the world's first computer, the Antikythera Mechanism is a system of intricate bronze gears dating to a...
Signage for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. covers the front facade of the New York Stock Exchange November 11, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's (BABA.N) affiliate Ant Financial has bought a fifth of financial data provider Shanghai Suntime Inf...
Sumner Redstone's National Amusements Inc, which holds 80 percent of Viacom voting shares, has started looking for potential board members for Viacom, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Former Time Warner executive Kenneth Lerer, ex-Sony Entertainment President...
Logo of the Twitter and Facebook are seen through magnifier on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Advertising agencies are for the first time turning to Instagram more frequently than Twitter for social media ad campaigns, a ...
Thomas Perkins, one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, died on Tuesday at age 84 at his home in Belvedere, California, according to the Marin County coroner's office. As co-founder of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Perkins played a major role in the formative ye...
When news broke last month that the credit card breach at fast food chain Wendy’s impacted fewer than 300 out of the company’s 5,800 locations, the response from many readers was, “Where’s the Breach?” Today, Wendy’s said the number of stores impacted by the ...
When news broke last month that the credit card breach at fast food chain Wendy’s impacted fewer than 300 out of the company’s 5,800 locations, the response from many readers was, “Where’s the Breach?” Today, Wendy’s said the number of stores impacted by the ...
A driver displays Uber and Lyft ride sharing signs in his car windscreen in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 23, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Files Former Uber Technologies Inc UBER.UL and Lyft Inc drivers in Austin, Texas, on Thursday accused the ride-hailing companies of breaking a federal law ...
Privately held cybersecurity software maker Tenable Network Security Inc said its chief executive Ron Gula, who co-founded the company in 2002, has stepped down. Gula will take on the role of the company's chairman and will help lead the search for a new chief executive, Tenable said in a statement ...
Larry Page, CEO and Co-founder of Alphabet, participates in a conversation with Fortune editor Alan Murray at the 2015 Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco, California November 2, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage Google co-founder Larry Page is backing two start-ups that are working on flying cars, i...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a feature that allows users to upload photos with 360-degree views. Apart from photos taken from 360-degree cameras, panor...
Singapore is to cut off internet access for government employees' work computers to protect government data after some "very sophisticated" cyber attacks, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was quoted as saying on Thursday. The move will come into force from May next year and affect about 100,000 comput...
A logo is pictured at Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich April16, 2015. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann Alphabet Inc's Google has not yet approached Russia's competition watchdog FAS about a settlement of the case in which the U.S. firm was found to be in breach of antitrust laws, FAS head Igor Ar...
The logo of Verizon is seen at a retail store in San Diego, California April 21, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) did not submit the highest offer this week in the second round of bidding for Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) core internet assets, according to a person familiar with the...
Ryanair is to take on Airbnb by offering private rooms and homes on its website, its latest bid to boost revenues by selling directly to the tens of millions of budget-conscious consumers who use its website. Ryanair will launch the new Ryanair Rooms service in October, offering everything from 5-st...
A taxi passes by an advertisement for the Uber car and ride-sharing service displayed on a bus stop in Paris, France, in this March 11, 2016 file photo. Reuters/Charles Platiau/Files A French court fined Uber Technologies [UBERL.UL] 800,000 euros ($907,000) on Thursday for running an illegal transpo...
Visitors take a break in front of a advertisment of game software manufacturer Ubisoft during the Gamescom 2015 fair in Cologne, Germany August 5, 2015. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach The Guillemot family is considering increasing its stake in French video games maker Ubisoft, using proceeds of the sale of...
Daniel Ek, co-founder of Swedish music streaming service Spotify which has the biggest paid subscriber base in the world, said on Thursday he had no intention of selling the company. While investors believe privately owned Spotify is probably heading for a public listing, some industry analysts see ...
