Cesar Alierta, chairman of Spain's telecom giant Telefonica, attends the company's 2015 annual results presentation at the Telefonica headquarters in Madrid, Spain, in this February 26, 2016 file picture. Reuters/Juan Medina/Files Spain's Telefonica chairman Cesar Alierta will step down after 16 yea...
The logo of French oil giant Total is seen at its headquarters in the financial and business district of la Defense in Courbevoie near Paris October 21, 2014. Reuters/Charles Platiau Total has tripled the power of its Pangea supercomputer, making it one of the world's most powerful and helping the F...
The logo of gaming company Amaya Inc is seen at its head office in Montreal June 22, 2015. Reuters/Christinne Muschi Amaya Inc Chief Executive David Baazov was taking an indefinite paid leave of absence, the Canadian gambling website operator said, a week after Baazov was charged with insider tradin...
Logo of German company SAP is pictured at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, March, 6, 2012. Reuters/Fabian Bimmer Business planning software giant SAP hiked the long-term stock options awarded to senior executives in 2015 while the company's board recommended a 5 percent rise in its annual dividen...
Employees work inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province in this May 26, 2010 file photo. Reuters/Bobby Yip/Files The Taiwan Stock Exchange said on Tuesday that shares in Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (2317.TW) (Foxconn) will be suspended from trade on We...
Seven in 10 people say the "dark net" - an anonymous online home to both criminals and activists fearful of government surveillance - should be shut down, according to a global Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. The findings, from a poll of at least 1,000 people in each of 24 countries, come as policym...
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) has set an April 11 deadline to submit preliminary bids for its web business and Asian assets, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources. Yahoo...
The Apple Store is seen in Santa Monica, California, United States, February 23, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The U.S. Justice Department said it successfully accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and asked a court to withdraw an order compelling Appl...
MedStar Health, one of the biggest medical providers in the Washington, D.C., area, said on Monday it shut down its computer network after the discovery of a computer virus. "Networks temporarily shut down to prevent virus spread," Medstar, the operator of 10 hospitals in Washington and Maryland, sa...
Virtual reality company Oculus started shipping its highly awaited Rift headsets from Monday, about two years after the company was acquired by social media giant Facebook Inc (FB.O). The earliest investors in Oculus's fundraising campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter in 2012 started receivin...
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski The FBI is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a pernicious new type of "ransomware" virus used ...
Tim Westergren (bottom center-left) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange June 15, 2011. Reuters/Ben Hider-NYSE Euronext Online music streaming service Pandora Media Inc appointed founder Tim Westergren as its chief executive officer to replace Brian McAndrews. The company's shares fell 7.9 pe...
The GM logo is seen at the General Motors Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Lansing, Michigan October 26, 2015. Photo taken October 26. Reuters/Rebecca Cook General Motors Co has won U.S. antitrust approval for the purchase of Silicon Valley startup Cruise Automation Inc, the Federal Trade Commi...
An employee walks in front of the logo of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) at its headquarters in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, November 19, 2015. Reuters/Pichi Chuang Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world's top contract chip maker, said on Monday it has signed an a...
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A Dell logo is pictured on the side of a computer in this photo illustration in the Manhattan borough of New York October 12, 2015. Reuters/Carlo Allegri Dell Inc is set to announce an agreement on Monday to sell its non-core information technology consulting division to Japan's NTT Data Corp for $3...
Rescue workers move a body from the site of a blast outside a public park in Lahore, Pakistan, March 27, 2016. Reuters/Mohsin Raza Facebook Inc apologized to users on the other side of the world from Sunday's suicide bombing in Pakistan who received computer-addressed notices asking if they were saf...
A laggard in embracing the 'fintech', or financial technology, revolution, Japan is set to ease investment restrictions that could free up the flow of capital in an economy sitting on an estimated $9 trillion in individuals' cash deposits. Strict regulation, easy access to credit due to rock-bottom ...
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) investors about contributing to financing to buy the troubled Internet company, a person familiar with the situation said. The talks are preliminary, the person added, and Microsoft is focused on preserving the r...
The logo of the German department of Amazon is pictured outside the Amazon logistics center in Koblenz, western Germany December 23, 2015. Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay Amazon is preparing to launch a two-hour delivery service in Berlin, German newspaper Welt reported on Saturday, citing Berlin transport ...
