Two freshly delivered Amazon boxes are seen on a counter in Golden, Colorado August 27, 2014. Reuters/Rick Wilking A federal judge has ruled that Amazon.com was liable for billing parents for unauthorized charges that children made within apps, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. A judge...
Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk has told investors his electric car company will stop burning cash and turn a profit this year, and corralling costs associated with quality problems will be critical to making good on that pledge. While Tesla has trimmed its average warranty repai...
Ask Siri if iPhone 7 will be the answer to Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) problems, and you're told that a visit to Apple's website should answer that question "and more". If only it was that easy. Apple's shares were down 8 percent at $95.80 in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company reported its fi...
A man reads tweets on his phone in front of a displayed Twitter logo in Bordeaux, southwestern France, March 10, 2016. Reuters/Regis Duvignau/Illustration/File Photo Twitter Inc's race against the clock is intensifying. The company is trying hard to improve its much-criticized interface, but analyst...
A lock icon, signifying an encrypted Internet connection, is seen on an Internet Explorer browser in a photo illustration in Paris April 15, 2014. Reuters/Mal Langsdon The House of Representatives was expected to vote on Wednesday to require law enforcement authorities to get a search warrant before...
A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) on Wednesday agreed to add four new independent directors to its board, bowing to pressure from activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP. Yahoo said Starboard Chi...
An electric Volkswagen Passat car is pictured at charging station at a VW dealer in Berlin, Germany, February 2, 2016. Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch Germany will offer incentives for buyers of electric cars worth about 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) to stoke consumer interest in battery cars as it strugg...
The new iPhone SE is seen on display during an event at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam After announcing its first-ever drop in iPhone sales on Tuesday, Apple Inc sought to reassure investors by saying its latest and cheapest model was in strong de...
A pedestrian walks past an advertisement board of Nintendo Co Ltd's 3DS portable game console outside an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 2, 2016. J Reuters/Yuya Shino/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE - SEARCH 'BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD APRIL 25' FOR ALL IMAGES Japan's Ninte...
The nuclear power plant of Gundremmingen is pictured on March 11, 2012. Reuters/Michaela Rehle A nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet, the s...
An Apple iphone 6 with Apple Pay is shown in this photo illustration in Encinitas , California June 3, 2015. Reuters/Mike Blake Apple Inc's first-ever drop in quarterly iPhone sales has spurred Chief Executive Tim Cook to turn the spotlight on prospects for its services business, but the field is ri...
Make sure you have anti-virus software installed on your computer and that it is automatically updating. However, keep in mind that no anti-virus can catch all malware; your computer can still be infected. That is why it's so important you use common sense and be wary of any messages that seem odd o...
The logo of U.S. technology company Apple is seen in Zurich, Switzerland April 5, 2016. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann The FBI informed Apple Inc of a vulnerability in its iPhone and Mac software on April 14, the first time it had told the company about a flaw in Apple products under a controversial White Ho...
Employees walk in the main office building of Samsung Electronics in Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Gloom may be settling over much of the world's semiconductor industry but Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expected to cope better than most due to its strong technological edge...
An eBay sign is seen at an office building in San Jose, California May 28, 2014. Reuters/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo EBay Inc reported a 3.7 percent increase in quarterly revenue as strong demand more than made up for the impact of a strong dollar. Net income fell to $482 million, or 41 cents per sha...
A man reads tweets on his phone in front of a displayed Twitter logo in Bordeaux, southwestern France, March 10, 2016. Reuters/Regis Duvignau/Illustration/File Photo Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) reported quarterly revenue at the lower end of its forecast as spending by advertisers declined. Twitter said on ...
A woman looks at her mobile next to AT&T logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 25, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea/File Photo AT&T Inc (T.N), the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier, reported a 24.4 percent jump in quarterly revenue, largely helped by the acquisition of satelli...
US Defense Acquisition Chief Frank Kendall in Farnborough, southern England July 14, 2014. Reuters/Kieran Doherty The Pentagon has found the root cause of stability issues with the radar software being tested for the F-35 stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp, U.S. Defense Acquisition Chi...
A longtime reader recently asked: “How do online fraudsters get the 3-digit card verification value (CVV or CVV2) code printed on the back of customer cards if merchants are forbidden from storing this information? The answer: If not via phishing, probably by installing a Web-based keylogger a...
A longtime reader recently asked: “How do online fraudsters get the 3-digit card verification value (CVV or CVV2) code printed on the back of customer cards if merchants are forbidden from storing this information? The answer: If not via phishing, probably by installing a Web-based keylogger a...
