Sharp, Foxconn to sign deal next week: media

A pedestrian walks under a logo of Sharp Corp outside an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. Reuters/Yuya Shino Sharp Corp (6753.T) and Taiwan's Foxconn are set to sign a takeover deal next week after repeated delays, with the two sides set to agree on a smaller bailout than...

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Microsoft apologizes for offensive tirade by its 'chatbot'

A Microsoft logo is seen at a pop-up site for the new Windows 10 operating system at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York July 29, 2015. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Microsoft is "deeply sorry" for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot it launched this week, a co...

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U.S. attempt to unlock San Bernardino iPhone could impact N.Y. case: Apple

A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken March 22, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Apple Inc said the U.S. Justice Department's new attempts to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters without the tech giant's help could e...

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Uber profits elsewhere support 'sustainable' spending in China: CEO

An open sign is seen at the office of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc during a driver recruitment event in Hong Kong, China December 29, 2015. Reuters/Tyrone Siu Ride hailing app company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is generating more than $1 billion in profit a year in its top 30 cities globally, ...

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Sharp warns on earnings as takeover talks with Foxconn drag on

An aerial view shows Sharp Corp's headquarters in Osaka, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 25, 2016. Reuters/Kyodo Sharp Corp said its annual earnings were likely to fall short of its official guidance citing a slowing China market, a factor that Taiwan's Foxconn is expected to us...

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China hopes ZTE can be removed from U.S. export restriction list as soon as possible

ZTE's logo on its R&D center is seen in Beijing, China, March 22, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon China's commerce ministry said on Friday it hoped telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp could be removed as soon as possible from a U.S. list of companies slapped with tough export restrictions this month. ...

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Microsoft has told potential Yahoo bidders it might back bids - Recode

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea Microsoft Corp executives have held meetings with equity firms that are considering bids for Yahoo Inc and told them that Microsoft might be willing to offer "significant financin...

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Netflix admits to downgrading video quality on AT&T, Verizon phones - WSJ

Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix, delivers a keynote address at the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2016. Reuters/Steve Marcus Netflix Inc said it had been lowering the quality of its video for customers watching its service on wireless networks such as AT&T and V...

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Microsoft's AI Twitter bot goes dark after racist, sexist tweets

A 3D-printed logo for Twitter is seen in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 26, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Tay, Microsoft Corp's so-called chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to engage with millennials on Twitter, lasted less than a day before it was hobb...

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Verizon says security breach leads to customer data leak

A woman is cashed out at a Verizon store in New York's financial district May 12, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) said an attacker had exploited a security vulnerability on its enterprise client portal to steal contact information of a number of customers. The compan...

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Apple working with Will.i.am, TV execs on original show

Singer songwriter Will.i.Am poses for photographers on the red carpet at the world premiere of the new James Bond 007 film ''Spectre'' at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Britain, October 26, 2015. Reuters/Luke MacGregor Apple Inc's widely anticipated first original television show will feature the ...

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U.S. judge questions Lyft settlement over driver benefits

A smartphone app for Lyft drivers is seen during a photo opportunity in San Francisco, California February 3, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam A U.S. judge questioned on Thursday whether a proposed class action settlement between Lyft and its California drivers is fair and raised concerns that the $12.25 m...

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Crooks Steal, Sell Verizon Enterprise Customer Data

Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a B2B unit of the telecommunications giant that gets called in to help Fortune 500’s respond to some of the world’s largest data breaches, is reeling from its own data breach involving the theft and resale of customer data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. ...

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Crooks Steal, Sell Verizon Enterprise Customer Data

Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a B2B unit of the telecommunications giant that gets called in to help Fortune 500’s respond to some of the world’s largest data breaches, is reeling from its own data breach involving the theft and resale of customer data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. ...

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Apple shares are one reason hedge funds lag mutual funds in 2016

The new iPhone SE is seen on display during an event at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Hedge funds may have taken too big a bite of Apple Inc (AAPL.O). Shares of the iPhone maker are one of the biggest bets among hedge funds, with 47 of them listi...

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SAP extends contracts for executive team, including CEO, until 2021

A bag with SAP logo is pictured before the company's annual general meeting in Mannheim, Germany, May 20, 2015. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach German software giant SAP on Thursday extended the contracts of its top executive team until 2021, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters, in a move that dis...

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Tech could help secure public spaces, if Europe wants more surveillance

A monitoring camera observes Frankfurt Airport, March 3, 2011. Reuters/Ralph Orlowski Facial recognition software, scanners that detect weapons and cameras that spot nervous people are some of the technologies that could be used more widely to secure public places, but some would require greater acc...

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France fines Google over 'right to be forgotten'

A woman holds her smart phone which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration taken February 24, 2016. Reuters/Eric Gaillard/Illustration The French data protection authority fined Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) 100,000 euros ($111,720) for not scrubbing web search results widely enou...

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U.S., Germany eye ways to deepen cyber collaboration

A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Senior U.S. and German officials agreed this week to deepen their collaboration on a range of cyber issues, including working to promote norms for responsible ...

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