A Philips logo is seen at Philips headquarters, where Philips CEO Frans van Houten gave a presentation of the company's 2013 full-year results, in Amsterdam January 28, 2014. Reuters/Toussaint Kluiters/United Photos Demand from technology-savvy patients seeking control over their medical data will o...
Football Soccer - UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament - Enghien-les-Bains, France - 20/04/2016. Logo for the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer championships. Reuters/Charles Platiau France launched an app to alert users to attacks on Wednesday, two days before the Euro 2016 soccer championship gets underway un...
An Uber car is seen parked with the driver's lunch left on the dashboard in Venice, California, United States on July 15, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Uber must hand over documents to a New York judge probing whether private investigators hired by the ride-hailing company fraudulently sou...
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 Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) has hired boutique investment bank Black Stone IP LLC to sell about 3,000 of the internet company's patents, the Wall Street Journal rep...
Indonesian online retailer Bilna spent two years looking for a chief technology officer before it finally discovered Ridy Lie, who had returned home after eight years with Amazon in the United States. Until Lie, the company had struggled to find someone who could "take us to the next level," said Ek...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) presents the Global Leadership Award to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) 41st annual Leadership Summit in Washington, U.S., June 7, 2016. Reuters/Yuri Gripas Amazon Inc (AMZN.O) Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said on Tuesday the co...
India's forecasting of the monsoon - the crop-nourishing seasonal rains that are the lifeblood for farmers in the country of 1.3 billion people - is getting a high-tech makeover. Jettisoning a statistical method introduced under British colonial rule in the 1920s, India's meteorology office is spend...
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski British lawmakers passed on Tuesday a new surveillance law to give security agencies more extensive monitoring capabilities in the digital age after several am...
An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. Reuters/Kacper Pempel U.S. regulators on Tuesday told banks to review the cyber security they have in place to protect against fraudulent money transfers and other thre...
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is seen on the field before Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, February 7, 2016. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The National Football League's Twitter (TWTR.N) account was...
A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation last month urged banks to look for signs of possible cyber attacks in the wake of the massive heist at Bangladesh's central bank, ask...
The National Football League's Twitter (TWTR.N) account was hacked on Tuesday and a false tweet was sent that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died, an NFL spokesman said on his Twitter account. "The @nfl Twitter account was hacked. @nflcommish is alive and well," league spokesman Brian McCarthy said....
The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had launched a patent infringement investigation into the import and sale of certain portable electronic devices utilizing haptic technology. It said the investigation was based on a complaint filed by Immersion Corp. The agency said it had ...
A succession of funding deals by deep-pocketed sovereign wealth funds have thrown a life preserver to some of the world’s biggest private tech firms whose high valuations have come under scrutiny in the past year. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States along with state-backed investors in Singapor...
Infiniti, the luxury division of Japanese carmaker Nissan, is considering rolling out highway self-driving capabilities for most new models, its president said on Tuesday, potentially overtaking German rivals in a race to offer autonomous driving. Executives for Chinese and global automakers speakin...
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York April 12, 2016. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Clinching a job on Wall Street soon may have as much to do with beating an algorithm as nailing the interview. Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup ...
The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company IBM (IBM) is seen on a computer screen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson IBM on Tuesday said it signed a $300 million, ten-year technology services agreement with Dubai’s ...
A Tesla Model S charges at a Tesla Supercharger station in Cabazon, California, U.S. May 18, 2016. Reuters/Sam Mircovich Samsung SDI is making progress in talks with Tesla Motors to supply batteries for the U.S. automaker's Model 3 electric car as well as its energy storage products, a source with d...
The logo of Apple (AAPL) is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Apple Inc sold a 30-year U.S. dollar bond in Taiwan at a yield of 4.15 percent, sources said on Tuesday, aiming to raise between $1 billion and $1.2 billion in the first issu...
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 plans to submit a second-round bid of around $3 billion for Yahoo Inc's core internet business, the Wall...
Medtronic Plc, the world's largest standalone medical device maker, said on Monday it expects a robotic surgical system it is developing to make a meaningful contribution to company revenue beginning in fiscal 2019. Medtronic will launch the surgical robot before the 2019 fiscal year, with the first...
The logo of T-Mobile Austria is seen outside of one of its shops in Vienna, Austria, February 25, 2016. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) said on Monday it will give a full share of the wireless company's stock to every primary postpaid account holder to turn its customers into shareh...
United Technologies Aerospace Systems (UTX.N) expects compound annual revenue growth to average 6 percent over the next five years, and is looking for acquisitions in four key areas, an executive said on Monday. The company is looking for acquisitions in avionics, interiors, structures and hydraulic...
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts have been resecured, a spokesman from the social media platform said on Monday, responding to questions about weekend media reports that the founder's sites had been hacked. Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts were com...
A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris, France December 6, 2011. Reuters/Jacques Brinon/Pool/File Photo The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Google Inc's bid to throw out a class action lawsuit involving claims ...
People pose for pictures with the emblem of Deutsche Bank during the bank's annual general meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, May 19, 2016. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) is ending plans to set up a new digital banking service in the United States, according to an internal memo from Ch...
The Oracle logo is seen on its campus in Redwood City, California June 15, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith A whistleblower lawsuit filed against Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) over its accounting practices underscores the pressures established computer companies face to show that they are growing in the fast-m...
Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman Hours before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York approved four fraudulent requests to send $81 million from a Bangladesh Bank account to cyber thieves, the Fed branch blocked those sam...
A Kuka technician programs a robot arm of German industrial robot maker Kuka at the company's stand during the Hannover Fair in Hanover, Germany, April 25, 2016. Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay German industrial robot maker Kuka (KU2G.DE) would assess a possible European takeover bid but it is wrong to assu...
The alleged homepage to Silk Road 2.0, the successor website to Silk Road, is seen in a screenshot labelled Exhibit A from a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) criminal complaint filed against Blake Benthall November 6, 2014. Reuters/DOJ/Handout via Reuters A Washington state man was sentenced on Frid...
