SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Airbnb is rolling out new services aimed at attracting travelers looking for luxury accommodations and traditional hotels, the latest move to contend with sputtering growth in its original home-renting business. The company on Thursday will unveil a new product that bundles...
(Reuters) - A team of engineers that worked on self-driving cars and helped invent Google Street View wants to help people guard their homes against intruders using the same style of facial recognition that unlocks smart phones. Lighthouse AI, their startup, on Thursday released a home security came...
(Reuters) - Snap Inc Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel received $637.8 million as total compensation during 2017, the year the company went public, according to a security filing on Thursday. The figure is based on stock-based awards worth $636.6 million and salary and other compensation worth ab...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland expects the final disputed tax bill that the European Commission ordered it to collect from Apple (AAPL.O) to be “in the ballpark” of the 13 billion euros ($16 billion) estimated, the head of the country’s tax collectors said on Thursday. “It’...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican broadcaster Televisa announced on Thursday it would partner with Amazon to distribute original content on the e-commerce giant’s video streaming platform. The Spanish-language content provider announced the launch of Televisa Alternative Originals (TAO), a divis...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe’s aviation safety authority has proposed anti-hacking measures and geo-awareness technology for small drones to avoid collisions with aircraft or people, taking an important step toward Europe-wide regulation. The reworked proposal published by the European Aviatio...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese telecommunications company NTT is hoping to bring an added dimension to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by projecting live sporting events with its 3D hologram technology. NTT has been working on a new system it calls “Kirari! For Arena”, which, unlike its current tech...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Angry Birds game maker Rovio Entertainment warned on profits on Thursday, wiping more than 40 percent off the Finnish company’s shares and leaving investors nursing big losses following a flotation last September. Rovio blamed increased marketing costs and other investment...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli chip maker TowerJazz reported higher-than-expected fourth quarter net profit on Thursday but its guidance for revenues in the first quarter was lower than forecasts, sending its shares down. TowerJazz, which specializes in analogue chips used in cars, medical sensors and...
LONDON (Reuters) - Price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com said its earnings would not grow this year as it tries to reinvent itself to focus on more personalization, mobile and new products like mortgages, sending its shares down 25 percent. The British group, which offers deals on products l...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc’s [UBER.UL] chief executive pledged to continue investing aggressively in Southeast Asia even though the U.S. ride hailing firm expects to lose money in the fast growing market due to costly battles with rivals such as Grab. SoftBank’s 15 perce...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc’s chief executive pledged to continue investing aggressively in Southeast Asia even though the U.S. ride hailing firm expects to lose money in the fast growing market due to costly battles with rivals such as Grab. SoftBank’s 15 percent stake p...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc does not expect any change in its India operations following an investment deal with Japan’s SoftBank Group, which also has a stake in the U.S. firm’s India rival Ola, Uber’s chief executive said on Thursday.. India is one of Uber’s...
SEOUL (Reuters) - A chat app where South Koreans can anonymously dish the dirt on their misbehaving bosses and colleagues is belatedly stirring the country’s #MeToo movement, shedding new light on sexual harassment in the heavily male-dominated corporate culture. Prompted by a recent wave of c...
“The Cloud” can mean different things to different people, but usually means using a service provider on the Internet to store and manage your computing systems and/or data for you. An advantage of the Cloud is that you can easily access and synchronize your data from multiple devices an...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts, cracking down on a tactic that Russian agents and others have allegedly used to make tweets or topics go viral. The San Francisco-based social network also said ...
(Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday accused former bitcoin-denominated platform BitFunder and its operator of running an unregistered securities exchange and defrauding its users. BitFunder and its founder Jon Montroll allegedly defrauded exchange users by misapprop...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Netflix Inc, Amazon.com Inc and technology companies poised to benefit from U.S. corporate tax cuts are attracting fresh attention on Wall Street after their shares shrugged off recent market turbulence. Amazon on Wednesday rose over 2 percent and touched $1,500 for the fir...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday updated guidance to public companies on how and when they should disclose cyber security risks and breaches, including disclosing potential weaknesses that have not yet been targeted by hackers. The guidance also said co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published on Wednesday updated guidance on how public companies should disclose cyber security risks and breaches. The SEC unanimously approved the additional guidance Tuesday, saying it would promote “clearer and more robust d...
