The logo of Verizon is seen at a retail store in San Diego, California April 21, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake Verizon Communications Inc's (VZ.N) recent purchases of two vehicle tracking firms could spark more deals as the No. 1 wireless provider and rival AT&T (T.N) see fleet management as a source...
A man uses a mobile phone in front of an advertisement board bearing the image of Pokemon Go at an electronic shop in Tokyo, Japan, July 27, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo - RTSLSVC Thailand will make places such as the Royal Palace grounds, Buddhist temples and hospitals off limits to play...
Apple Inc is threatening to crash Samsung's expensive Olympics party. Samsung is mobile phone sponsor of the Rio Games and sells its handsets exclusively to hundreds of thousands of visitors flocking to Olympic venues - but Apple is tempting some of them outside with its own unofficial Games merchan...
A man holds an iPhone 6 in a mobile phone shop in Moscow September 26, 2014. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov Apple Inc on Tuesday rejected allegations from Russia's state competition watchdog it may have been involved in fixing prices for iPhones, saying resellers set their own prices. Apple reacted a day af...
A sign of Alibaba Group is seen at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Asia 2016 in Shanghai, China, May 12, 2016. Reuters/Aly Song/File Photo Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is offering to help international technology firms such as SAP SE to enter China, a market where foreign tech ...
A logo of Japan Display Inc is seen at its headquarters in Tokyo April 15, 2013. Reuters/Yuya Shino/File Photo Japan Display Inc (6740.T) said its top investor, the state-backed Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ), has promised to give full support to the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) supplier as it contin...
A man uses a mobile phone in front of an advertisement board bearing the image of Pokemon Go at an electronic shop in Tokyo, Japan, July 27, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo Top video game companies, caught off-guard by the runaway success of Pokemon Go, are wrestling with how to play catch-u...
A delegate at the FireEye Cyber Security Summit uses his laptop during a break in sessions at a venue in Sydney, Australia, March 17, 2016. Reuters/David Gray Australia has set up a cyber-intelligence unit to identify terrorism financing, money laundering and financial fraud online, the government s...
A banner for communications software provider Twilio Inc., hangs on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to celebrate the company's IPO in New York City, U.S., June 23, 2016. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Twilio Inc, a developer-focused messaging and voice services provider, reported a 70 per...
A woman looks at her phone as she passes by a Lending Club banner on the facade of the the New York Stock Exchange December 11, 2014. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Online lending platform operator LendingClub Corp reported a bigger quarterly loss, largely due to an impairment charge and higher operating ...
A view of the corporate sign outside the Honeywell International Automation and Control Solutions manufacturing plant in Golden Valley, Minnesota, January 28, 2010. Reuters/Eric Miller/File Photo Honeywell International Inc is in talks to acquire JDA Software Group Inc, in a deal that could value th...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday it had sued 1-800 Contacts, which it called the largest U.S. online retailer of contact lenses, alleging the company illegally maintained anticompetitive agreements with rival online contact lens sellers. These agreements "suppress competition in cert...
The NBC logo is pictured atop their office building in San Diego, California September 1, 2015. Reuters/Mike Blake Comcast Corp's NBC Universal has signed a multi-year deal with Snapchat to produce original content for the messaging app, a Snapchat executive told Reuters. NBC is set to kick off this...
Nick Johnson, who claims to be the first person to capture all 145 creatures now available in the "Pokemon Go" mobile gaming phenomenon, says he is not ready to put away his smartphone just yet and hopes for new features. The 28-year-old tech employee from Brooklyn, New York, who refers to himself a...
A Bitcoin logo is displayed at the Bitcoin Center New York City in New York's financial district July 28, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo - RTSKT40 The U.S. government said on Monday it plans to auction over 2,700 bitcoin that were forfeited during several cases, including the prosecution ...
A person walks outside a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City January 11, 2013. Reuters/Edgard Garrido/File Photo Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Monday it would buy online retailer Jet.com for about $3 billion, the largest-ever deal for an e-commerce startup, as it races to build a Web business to better comp...
A Facebook logo is displayed on the side of a tour bus in New York's financial district July 28, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo - RTX2JH2W Facebook rejected on Monday claims made by Germany's state authorities that it was reluctant to co-operate with them on criminal investigations, sayin...
A man holds the newly released iPhone 6 in a mobile phone shop in Moscow September 26, 2014. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said on Monday it had opened a case into price-fixing allegations concerning Apple iPhones. "The Anti-Monopoly Service sees signs of price fixing...
A padlock is displayed at the Alert Logic booth during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. August 3, 2016. Reuters/David Becker A previously unknown group called "Strider" has been conducting cyber-espionage attacks against selected targets in Russia, China, Swede...
Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo Japan's Fair Trade Commission has raided the office of Amazon Japan on suspicion of pressuring retailers to offer products on more favorable conditions than on rival ...
A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex, which lost $72 million to hackers last week, told customers on Sun...
Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) is in talks with Panasonic Corp (6752.T) and overseas companies including Chinese firms over the possible sale of its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said. Two people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday that the Japanese automaker ...
A prototype of the Tesla Model 3 is on display in front of the factory during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. July 26, 2016. Reuters/James Glover II Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) said the cost of building and operating ...
Chris Urmson, Director of the Self Driving Cars Project at Google, speaks to the media during a preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo Chris Urmson, an executive who was instrumental in building Google's ...
Alibaba Group Holding Inc is not making an investment in Netflix Inc, Alibaba spokesman Bob Christie told Reuters on Friday. Christie was responding to market rumors about a possible deal between the Chinese e-commerce company and the U.S. video service. (Reporting by Peter Henderson; Editing by Ric...
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. August 4, 2016. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst The Obama administration is preparing to elevate the stature of the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, signaling more emphasis on developing cyber weapons to deter att...
A security guard stands guard outside a branch of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in Paranaque city, Metro Manila, Philippines August 2, 2016. Reuters/Erik De Castro A Bangladesh central bank team visiting Manila to recover $81 million stolen from its account in New York said it was clos...
A Yahoo logo is pictured in front of a building in Rolle, 30 km (19 miles) east of Geneva, December 12, 2012. Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File photo As European and American markets open on Friday, oil traders face a new era with Yahoo Messenger, the main tool used by traders to communicate since the la...
A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Hong Kong-based crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex, from which hackers stole about US$72 million worth...
A software program dubbed "Mayhem" was poised to win the final round of a three-year contest to teach computers to launch and defend against cyber attacks, earning a $2 million prize for the team that wrote the winning code. The event, known as the Cyber Grand Challenge, concluded Thursday evening i...
