A battery charger sign for electric cars is painted on the ground of a parking ground near the soccer stadium in Wolfsburg, Germany, April 6, 2016. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach The German cabinet approved a new incentive scheme on Wednesday worth about 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to boost demand for e...

Britain's ARM Holdings (ARM.L), the provider of technology for the iPhone, has bolstered its exposure to the developing market of embedded computer vision with the purchase of Apical for $350 million, it said on Wednesday. Embedded computer vision involves the use of digital processing and algorithm...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that a dangerous financial bubble has formed in the technology industry - and Silicon Valley responded with a collective eye roll. In a Reuters interview, the New York billionaire said technology start-ups that had never earned a profi...

Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016. Reuters/Shu Zhang China's Jack Ma is canceling a planned speech at an anti-counterfeiting conference after the trad...

A virtual company created using a computer code could raise $200 million when it ends its fund-raising campaign next week, according to the founder of the firm that wrote the code for the new digital enterprise. The company is called DAO, which stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization. It is...

The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo Major U.S. banks are pushing the SWIFT messaging network to boost security following cyber attacks in Bangladesh and Vietnam involving fraudulent transfer requests, Bloomberg New...

People wear Samsung Gear VR devices as they attend the launching ceremony of the new Samsung S7 and S7 edge smartphones during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 21, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY A growing number of U.S. companies are counting on virtual reality...

A man is seen next to a Firefox logo at a Mozilla stand during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 28, 2013. Reuters/Albert Gea/Files A federal judge has rejected Mozilla Corp's request to force the U.S. government to disclose a vulnerability related to the Firefox web browser that the ...

Longtime customers dramatically reduced the amount of licensing revenue they paid to use Oracle products after Google stole its copyrighted software to enter the smartphone market, Oracle's co-chief executive Safra Catz told jurors on Tuesday. In a trial at San Francisco federal court, Oracle Corp (...

A logo of Sony Corp is seen outside its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, January 27, 2016. Picture taken January 27, 2016. Reuters/Yuya Shino Japan's Sony Corp said it plans to build up its artificial intelligence (AI) business and eventually turn it into a major revenue source, beginning with an inves...

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the Apple TV during an event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016. Reuters/Stephan Lam Apple Inc is set to announce plans to expand its Indian software development center and build an accelerator program for local start-ups, two sources aware ...

The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company Microsoft (MSFT) is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Microsoft said on Tuesday that Britain should stay in the European Union if it wanted to receive more investment, the ...

A phone running the Uber application is held above the traffic in central Bangkok December 10, 2014. Reuters/Damir Sagolj/Files Thailand has ordered Uber Technologies UBER.UL and Grab to halt their motorcycle taxi-hailing services, a senior transport official said on Tuesday. The services are popula...

The Vodafone logo can be seen on top of a building outside Madrid, Spain, April 13, 2016. Reuters/Andrea Comas Vodafone said its earnings growth would accelerate this year after a program to improve its networks boosted demand in Europe and helped the group to return to underlying growth in 2016 rev...

Vietnam's central bank said on Tuesday a failed hacking attempt on Tien Phong Bank (TPBank) using the SWIFT messaging system sought to fraudulently transfer 1.2 million euros ($1.36 million) to a Slovenian bank late last year in one transaction. The thwarted transfer on Dec. 8 was the only hack atte...

An interface board bearing CPU (silver) and semiconductors (black) is placed on a researcher's desk at Tsinghua Unigroup research centre in Beijing, China, February 29, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon - RTSDRLW Taiwanese regulators have begun reviewing Chinese state-backed Tsinghua Unigroup's proposals...

Corvex Management disclosed on Monday that it owns 9.9 percent of Pandora Media Inc and urged the internet music streaming company to explore a sale. Corvex is run by Keith Meister, a protégé of billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, and said in the letter to Pandora's board that it...

Electronic cables are silhouetted next to the logo of Twitter in this September 23, 2014 illustration photo in Sarajevo. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Twitter Inc users will soon have more flexibility in writing tweets because the company plans to stop including photos and links as part of its 140-character li...

A portrait of the Twitter logo in Ventura, California December 21, 2013. Reuters/Eric Thayer/Files Twitter Inc said it appointed Debra Lee, the chief executive of Viacom Inc subsidiary BET Networks, to its board, effective immediately. The company also said it appointed Marjorie Scardino as lead ind...

The Oracle logo is seen on its campus in Redwood City, California June 15, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith - RTX1GN5V Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) did not acquire Sun Microsystems in 2009 in order to launch a copyright lawsuit against Google, but rather to protect its products that relied on Sun's software, ...