Online video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime will be required to devote at least a fifth of their catalogs to European content under proposals set to be announced next week. The European Commission is planning an overhaul of the European Union's broadcasting rules to bring in EU-...
A Bitcoin (virtual currency) coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris July 11, 2014. Reuters/Benoit Tessier Bitcoin exchange Coinbase said late Thursday it will add digital currency ether on its trading platform next Tuesday. With the launch of ether trading nex...
Google did not pay to use Oracle's software in millions of smartphones, but the company believed that the intellectual property was free for anyone to use, Larry Page, chief executive of Google's parent company, told jurors in court on Thursday. In a retrial at San Francisco federal court, Oracle Co...
A small group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill Thursday that would block a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S. judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas, arguing the change would expand the FBI’s hacking authority. The one-...
A prototype of Google's own self-driving vehicle is seen during a media preview of Google's current autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage A group seeking to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil on Thursday called on policymakers to remove regu...
People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with a Google logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Alphabet Inc's Google appealed on Thursday an order from the French data protection authority to remove cer...
The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has invited SWIFT for a meeting in June to discuss the latest cyber attacks on banks in Bangladesh and Vietnam which involved SWIFT's financial messaging service. The move comes as members of ABS, which include Singaporean and foreign banks, have individua...
Apple CEO Tim Cook waves as he attends a talk in Beijing October 23, 2014. China Daily/via Reuters/File Photo The head of China's industry and technology regulator stressed Chinese users' security in a meeting with Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) chief executive in Beijing, as the U.S. tech titan stumbles in i...
Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman/File Photo The computer of a Bangladesh central bank official was hacked to carry out one of the largest cyber heists in history, a Bangladesh diplomat said on Thursday. John Gomes, Ban...
A man speaks on his mobile phone near a Samsung store in central Kiev, Ukraine, May 11, 2016. Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko Samsung Electronics and Alibaba Group Holding plan to announce a collaboration on mobile payment systems on Friday, South Korean media reported. Under the tie-up, Samsung Electroni...
The U.S. House of Representatives' information technology team this week reinstated access on its internet network to software applications hosted on a Google cloud service after the company addressed potential security fears, according to an email seen by Reuters. Yahoo Mail remains inaccessible, h...
The logo for LinkedIn Corporation, a social networking networking website for people in professional occupations, is shown in Mountain View, California February 6, 2013. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo A 2012 LinkedIn data theft may have affected far more users than originally thought, the profe...
The Cisco Systems logo is seen as part of a display at the Microsoft Ignite technology conference in Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 2015. Reuters/Jim Young/File Photo Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc reported an about 1.1 percent fall in quarterly revenue, hurt by lower spending by telecom carri...
Google's Android ran afoul of social media users on Wednesday after encouraging people to nominate a word starting with the letter "N" for the latest version of its mobile operating platform. An Android website asked for submissions for "any tasty ideas that start with the letter N" for its new "And...
Members of the public walk past the Bank of England in central London June 3, 2008. Reuters/Alessia Pierdomenico The Bank of England ordered UK banks to detail steps taken to secure computers connected to the SWIFT bank messaging network about two months after a still-unidentified group used the sys...
The Netflix logo is shown in this illustration photograph in Encinitas, California October 14, 2014. Reuters/Mike Blake/File Photo Netflix Inc said on Wednesday that it had launched a website to check the speed of a mobile or broadband internet connection. The service, called fast.com, works like ot...
Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), unveiled a new hardware device called Google Home at the company's annual conference on Wednesday. The device, a portable speaker powered by the company's search engine, would offer competition to Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) Echo. The device will be launched l...
As Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg prepares to meet conservative leaders on Wednesday to discuss allegations about political bias at the social media website, one thing he may not have to worry about is federal regulation. Although the U.S. Senate committee is investigating whether ther...
The mysterious suspected sabotage of three telecommunications masts, key parts of Sweden's infrastructure, has reignited fears of foreign spies and the readiness of depleted security services in a country on the frontline of growing tensions with Russia. A 300-metre high mast in southwestern Sweden ...
Fitbit Blaze watches are displayed during the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2016. Reuters/Steve Marcus Fitbit Inc said it bought wearable payment technology assets from Silicon Valley-based startup Coin, as it looks to allow users to make payments through its popular line of we...
The plug-in charger for a BMW i3 electric car is pictured during the Auto China 2016 in Beijing, China, April 25, 2016. Reuters/Jason Lee A U.S. owner of a BMW i3 has filed a lawsuit claiming that the German automaker's electric vehicle can experience a sudden loss of power when a feature designed t...
Swift code bank logo is displayed on an iPhone 6s on top of Euro banknotes in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 26, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Bangladesh has asked SWIFT to help its police question technicians sent by the global financial network to D...
A sign of Alibaba Group is seen at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Asia 2016 in Shanghai, China, May 12, 2016. Reuters/Aly Song Hong Kong's securities regulator said on Wednesday that Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) breached takeover rules in the purchase of a healthcare ...
The Nokia headquarters is seen in Espoo, Finland April 6, 2016. Reuters/Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/File Photo Nokia (NOKIA.HE) said it has signed an exclusive 10-year licensing deal with Finnish company HMD Global Oy to create Nokia-branded phones and tablets, manufactured by a subsidiary of Taiw...
A Microsoft logo is seen on an office building in New York City in this July 28, 2015 file photo. Reuters/Mike Segar Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it is selling its entry-level feature phone assets to FIH Mobile Ltd and HMD Global Oy for $350 million. FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Hon Hai/Foxconn Techn...
Hyundai Motor Co plans to launch its next-generation fuel-cell electric vehicle in early 2018, Vice Chairman Yang Woong-chul said on Wednesday, to better compete with Japanese rivals and meet tougher emissions rules. Hyundai launched the world's first mass-produced fuel cell vehicle in 2013, dubbed ...
A battery charger sign for electric cars is painted on the ground of a parking ground near the soccer stadium in Wolfsburg, Germany, April 6, 2016. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach The German cabinet approved a new incentive scheme on Wednesday worth about 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to boost demand for e...
Britain's ARM Holdings (ARM.L), the provider of technology for the iPhone, has bolstered its exposure to the developing market of embedded computer vision with the purchase of Apical for $350 million, it said on Wednesday. Embedded computer vision involves the use of digital processing and algorithm...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that a dangerous financial bubble has formed in the technology industry - and Silicon Valley responded with a collective eye roll. In a Reuters interview, the New York billionaire said technology start-ups that had never earned a profi...
Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016. Reuters/Shu Zhang China's Jack Ma is canceling a planned speech at an anti-counterfeiting conference after the trad...
