Netflix Inc said on Thursday Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Bennett will step down after seven years in the role, during which the online video-streaming giant's paid subscribers jumped five-fold to 139 million.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has opened up a new front in its battle with the U.S. government by filing a lawsuit challenging a congressional ban on federal agencies' use of the Chinese technology company's products.

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduced legislation on Thursday backing Canada's handling of Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, as the United States seeks her extradition.

Home-renting company Airbnb has bought HotelTonight, an app for finding hotel rooms at a discount, as it wades deeper into the hotel-booking business to attract a wider variety of travelers ahead of a hotly anticipated initial public offering.

Netflix Inc said on Thursday its Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Bennett is stepping down after seven years in the post, during which the online-streaming giant added 139 million paid subscribers.

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had removed 137 pages, groups and Instagram accounts in the United Kingdom and a further 31 in Romania for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior.

Cable operator Altice USA Inc is exploring options for its Lightpath fiber unit, including a divestment of the seller of Internet services to large corporations that could fetch $3 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.

BMW's ambitions to establish China as a hub for exporting electric cars are in limbo because of uncertainty over potential trade tariffs between China and the United States, company executives told Reuters.

Germany set tougher criteria on Thursday for vendors supplying telecoms network equipment, stopping short of singling out China's Huawei Technologies for special treatment and instead saying the same rules should apply to all vendors.

Czech telecom regulator CTU said on Thursday there was no threat to a planned auction of new-generation 5G frequencies from the country's cyber watchdog's December warning over possible dangers from technology of Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE.

Germany's federal network regulator set new security criteria on Thursday for vendors supplying equipment for 5G networks, saying the same rules should apply to all providers and toughening scrutiny of gear used in critical infrastructure.

Japan's SoftBank Group is launching a $5 billion fund to invest in technology companies in Latin America, it said on Thursday, ramping up its tech ambitions beyond its huge Vision Fund.

MTN Group announced on Thursday a $1 billion divestment program over the next three years that will slim down Africa's biggest mobile phone operator and refocus it on high-growth markets on the continent and in the Middle East.

SQN Investors LP dropped its threat of challenging Yelp Inc's board of directors on Thursday, after the company unveiled steps to improve returns that echoed plans the hedge fund had proposed, according to a letter SQN sent to Yelp.

Vodafone said any move by Britain to bar equipment made by China's Huawei from all parts of new 5G networks would cost it hundreds of millions of pounds and "very significantly" slow down the deployment of the new technology.

Huawei equipment is not used "in any of Romania's state critical infrastructure" under the administration of the NATO member's Special Telecommunications Service (STS), the STS told Reuters on Thursday.

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp said on Thursday it had launched a new $5 billion innovation fund to invest in technology companies in Latin America

Xerox Corp said on Thursday it will implement a structure in which the printer maker will become a wholly owned unit of a new holding company.

Austria has sold 5G licenses to three national mobile operators and a handful of local players, bringing in a mere 188 million euros ($213 million) in an auction aimed at ensuring a rapid rollout of the new technology.

Women have long relied on dating apps to find romantic partners, but many now are going online to seek another special someone: a friend.