Coupa Software Inc, a U.S. provider of applications that help companies run their financial affairs, has hired investment banks for an initial public offering that could come later this year, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Coupa would be one of the largest software companies looki...

A South Korean city plans to introduce an alarm that flashes a pink light on trains and buses to prompt commuters to give up their seats to pregnant women. The Beacon device uses bluetooth technology and lights up beside priority seats when a pregnant woman, with the associated app on her smartphone...

A Tesla Model S involved in the fatal crash on May 7, 2016 is shown with the top third of the car sheared off by the impact of the collision of the Tesla with a tractor-trailer truck on nearby highway and came to rest in the yard of Robert and Chrissy VanKavelaar in... Reuters Investigators found a ...

Organizers of a general strike against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe pledged on Thursday to continue action until he falls, as a spontaneous social media movement has coalesced into the biggest uprising against his rule in nearly a decade. Zimbabweans have been using the Internet in recent week...

3D-printed models of people are seen in front of a Facebook logo in this photo illustration taken June 9, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is examining Facebook Inc (FB.O) in connection with its transfer of various rights associated with its worldwide business ...

A Wendy's sign and logo are shown at one of the company's restaurant in Encinitas, California May 10, 2016 . Reuters/Mike Blake U.S. burger chain Wendy's Co said on Thursday that a malware it had found at some franchisees in June had enabled hackers to access payment card information from the point-...

Humanoid robots work side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory of Glory Ltd., a manufacturer of automatic change dispensers, in Kazo, north of Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015. Reuters/Issei Kato More than half of workers in five Southeast Asian countries are at high risk of losing the...

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] has filed another patent lawsuit against smartphone rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in China, adding to the legal battle between the two Asian electronics giants. Quanzhou intermediate people's court spokesman Wang Zhiwei told Reuters the court accepted the case ...

Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday its second-quarter operating profit likely rose 17.4 percent from a year earlier, its highest in more than 2 years as Galaxy S7 smartphone sales propelled mobile earnings. The world's top maker of smartphones and memory chips said in a regulator...

A portrait of the Snapchat logo in Ventura, California December 21, 2013. Reuters/Eric Thayer Snapchat announced a new feature that enables users to save and share their content, a big change for the popular social messaging app widely used for sending photos and videos that disappear in a day. The ...

A logo is seen on the new Tesla Model X P90D at the 86th International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, March 1, 2016. Reuters/Denis Balibouse The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a July 1 crash in Pennsylvania of a Tesla Model X "to determine whether automated funct...

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 Wednesday it has completed the rollout of its Wal-Mart Pay mobile payment service across the United States and that 88 percent of transactions on the app are from re...

The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company Verizon is seen at a retail store in San Diego, California April 21, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), the No. 1 U.S. wireless provider, said on Wednesday that it would increase plan rates but expand...

Ten companies are recalling about 501,000 hoverboards after numerous reports of the self-balancing scooters' batteries catching fire, the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission said on Wednesday. There have been at least 99 incidents of the two-wheeled devices' lithium-ion battery packs overheatin...

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo Online retailer Amazon has not seen a dip in sales at its British business in the days after the country voted to leave the European Union, its UK boss said on Wednes...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it had reached a $2.4 million settlement with General Communication Inc resolving an investigation into five 911 service outages on the company’s network in Alaska. The FCC said GCI had agreed to strengthen its procedures for providi...

WayRay has everything you might expect from a Silicon Valley start-up: a high tech product it says can change the world and a business plan that foresees growing from zero to a billion dollars, roughly by its founder's 30th birthday. Its invention sounds so ingenious you'd wish you thought it up: a ...

The Tesla Model S version 7.0 software update containing Autopilot features is demonstrated during a Tesla event in Palo Alto, California, U.S., October 14, 2015. Reuters/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo Self-driving cars will need multiple detection systems including expensive infrared "lidar" technology...

The logo of the U.S. National Security Agency is seen in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. A U.S. appeals court will weigh a constitutional challenge on Wednesday to a warrantless government surveillance program brought by an Oregon man found guilty of attempting to detonate a bomb in 2010 dur...

An LG Electronics' logo is pictured on a laptop computer displayed at a shop in Seoul, South Korea, April 26, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said on Wednesday it will work with German carmaker Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) to jointly develop a connected car platform to enable...

A view of the launch event of Alibaba's internet-connected car in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, July 6, 2016. China Daily/via Reuters Chinese tech firm Alibaba's internet-connected car will set the Chinese e-commerce giant up to quickly introduce driverless vehicle technology, Chief Technology...

A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture shot May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/Illustration/File Photo London-based bitcoin start-up Elliptic and the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity that monitors online child sex abuse, will coop...

A Tesla Model S involved in the fatal crash on May 7, 2016 is shown with the top third of the car sheared off by the impact of the collision of the Tesla with a tractor-trailer truck on nearby highway and came to rest in the yard of Robert and Chrissy VanKavelaar in... Reuters Tesla Motors alerted r...

Quip co-founder Bret Taylor, a former Facebook CTO, poses for a photograph at the company's Market Street headquarters in San Francisco, California March 12, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith Twitter Inc said it had appointed former Facebook Inc Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor to its board, effect...

A man reads tweets on his phone in front of a displayed Twitter logo in Bordeaux, southwestern France, March 10, 2016. Reuters/Regis Duvignau/Illustration/File Photo Nigerian militant group the Niger Delta Avengers said on Tuesday that its only account on microblogging website Twitter is under suspe...

The Symantec logo is pictured on a screen in Singapore June 13, 2016. Reuters/Thomas White A U.S. federal agency issued a security alert over a vulnerability in Symantec Corp's anti-virus software that allows attackers to remotely control affected computers. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security'...

The NBC logo and Comcast are displayed on 30 Rockefeller Plaza, formerly known as the GE building, in midtown Manhattan in New York July 23, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Comcast Corp, the owner of the NBC TV network, has reached an agreement with Netflix Inc to stream Netflix content through its X...

A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture shot May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/Illustration The European Commission proposed on Tuesday stricter rules on the use of virtual currencies and prepaid cards in a bid to reduce anonymous pay...

The new Blackberry Classic smartphone is displayed during the launch event in New York, December 17, 2014. Reuters/Brendan McDermid BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) will stop making its Classic smartphone, 18 months after launching it in an effort to entice users who prefer physical, rather than touch, keyboa...

Pedestrians walk past a mobile phone care centre operated by Kenyan's telecom operator Safaricom in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, May 11, 2016. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya Kenya's biggest telecoms operator Safaricom on Tuesday launched a ride-hailing app called Little Cab to co...